microbe
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They managed to "tame" the microbe in the laboratory and make it fix N2 at temperatures above 90 °C.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
To better understand these plant and microbe partnerships, the researchers examined root microbiomes from multiple crop species grown in different soil types.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
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
"Wheat gluten and casein are recognized as safe in a way a microbe is not, in a regulatory sense, so this is an easier way to protect public health," Hsiao said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 2026
The specific antibodies that we gradually build up against a particular microbe infecting us make us less likely to get reinfected once we become cured.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
These microbes are increasingly being studied for their possible roles in metabolism, immune function, and cardiovascular health.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Research published after the bistrifluron study found that the microbes inside those pellets may provide a kind of biological clock.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
"This study helps us better understand how natural compounds produced through interactions between diet, gut microbes and the body can influence disease processes," Jala said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
The researchers say this is the first study to show how a natural product made by microbes can work with the body's own response systems to regulate complex molecular and cellular processes during intestinal injury.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
For the microbes include not only disease organisms but those that destroy waste matter, make soils fertile, and enter into countless biological processes like fermentation and nitrification.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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