microbe

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Published in Cell Communication and Signaling, the study focuses on Fusobacterium nucleatum, a microbe previously connected to colorectal and other cancers.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

One previous piece of research on Neanderthal DNA also showed that modern humans and Neanderthals shared an oral microbe - a type of bacteria found in our saliva.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

Typically, when researchers try to get a microbe to produce a foreign compound, it creates a major metabolic burden.

From Science Daily • Nov. 3, 2025

Among them is one unusual microbe that produces methane -- a gas more often associated with cows and landfills than humans.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025

In that new environment, a microbe must evolve new ways to live and to propagate itself.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond