microbes
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Scientists have long known that dietary fiber contributes to these benefits because gut microbes help break it down.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Prif increased the amount of dietary protein that reached gut microbes, giving them more material to produce the beneficial phenols.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
The researchers wanted to determine how effectively bacteria could reduce the amount of uranium dissolved in water and identify the chemical forms created as the microbes processed the uranium.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 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
If terrestrial microbes can survive the Martian environment, how much better Martian microbes, if they exist, must do on Mars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
