microbes
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The later microbes could have colonized the body while it remained frozen in the glacier or during more than 30 years of modern conservation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The ability to target dangerous microbes while preserving the healthy oral microbiome could make the gum useful in several ways.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Researchers have developed a bioengineered chewing gum that may offer a new way to target microbes associated with head and neck cancer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
He said it could also add to interest in protecting maerl beds, which were "already of the greatest importance to all of the other plants, animals and microbes in the ecological community that they support".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
We live in a world where the microbes are always trying to get at us, to tear us cell from cell, and we only stay alive and whole through diligence and fear.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
