microbes
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Some slowed or completely stopped the growth of microbes associated with a healthy digestive system.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
As the barrier weakens, however, toxins and other products generated by gut microbes can travel to the liver.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Modern plastics have introduced an enormous new collection of potential carbon sources into the environment, but many of these materials remain chemically inaccessible to microbes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
The pink comes from microbes thriving in extremely salty water after the area was cut off from fresh water.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
If the rise of farming was thus a bonanza for our microbes, the rise of cities was a greater one, as still more densely packed human populations festered under even worse sanitation conditions.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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