microbe

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The team proposes that chemotherapy may create a form of biological "memory," driven by metabolites produced by gut microbes that continue to suppress metastatic growth over time.

From Science Daily

In Donne’s time, anyone who made it to adulthood would have survived a gauntlet of vicious microbes.

From The Wall Street Journal

This radiation reacts with salts and other materials on the moon's surface, producing compounds that could serve as nutrients for microbes.

From Science Daily

In people with Crohn's disease, the immune system appears to react abnormally to microbes that are usually beneficial.

From Science Daily

It was that warmer temperatures all around the world were melting the permafrost in the Arctic, and tiny microbes were feasting on the newly unfrozen plant material in the ground.

From Literature