microbe
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Like any pandemic, the Black Death was simultaneously a biological and a social event—shaped by both the innate characteristics of a microbe and such all-too-human factors as political systems, religious beliefs and public-health responses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
The microbe, Methanosarcina acetivorans, appears to function normally despite this flexible interpretation, demonstrating that life can operate with a slightly imprecise code.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026
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
For a microbe, spread may be defined mathematically as the number of new victims infected per each original patient.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
At the heart of current research is the oral microbiome, the community of hundreds of bacteria, fungi and other microbes that live in the mouth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
These microbes help break down food, produce useful compounds, train the immune system, and influence metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
"By embedding these microbes, plastics could effectively 'come alive' and self-destruct on command, turning durability from a problem into a programmable feature," explains Dai.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Eventually, typhus microbes discovered that human body lice offered a much more efficient method of traveling directly between humans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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