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
At the same time, metabolites made exclusively by microbes, including indole-3-propionate and p-cresol sulfate, declined after antibiotic treatment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
AbuSalim, Rabinowitz and their colleagues found that these proteins are processed by gut microbes and can alter both the makeup of the microbiome and the host's metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The second showed that several biologically important metabolites usually credited to gut microbes can also be produced in substantial amounts by mammalian metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
For many of the microbes responsible for our unique diseases, molecular biologists can now identify the microbe’s closest relatives.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
