microbe

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When these social effects were added to a statistical model, the overall genetic influence on the three newly identified gene microbe links increased by four to eight times.

From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025

To explore this idea, the team cultured a large quantity of P. sanguinis for three days and then extracted the full mixture of metabolites produced by the microbe.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

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

The microbe used by Stephen Wallace, professor of chemical biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, was Escherichia coli, better known as E. coli.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

The husband was a small, timid man, sick with pneumonia caused by an unidentified microbe, and with only limited command of the English language.

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