microbes
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Bradley Moore, an oceanographer at the University of California, San Diego, studies marine microbes and the chemicals they produce, including compounds that have potential applications in human medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The discovery points to a previously unrecognized pathway through which carbon stored by microbes can move into animal food webs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Critics have argued that organic material detected in fossils could have entered the specimens much later from microbes, soil, handling, or other environmental sources.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
Finally, these diseases tend to be restricted to humans; the microbes causing them tend not to live in the soil or in other animals.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
