microorganism
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"We know that the microorganisms that produce oxygen were around well before the Great Oxidation Event," Husain says.
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Yet this everyday microorganism may also offer insight into a far bigger question: how life might endure the extreme conditions found beyond Earth.
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This enormous and constantly changing community of microorganisms is shaped by countless chemical exchanges, both among the microbes themselves and between microbes and the human body.
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"This work highlights a new way environmental change can affect marine ecosystems, not simply by limiting resources, but by disrupting the internal physiology of dominant microorganisms," Cheng said.
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Some trials show that the sweeteners can raise blood sugar, weaken blood-sugar control and cause dysfunction in the gut microbiome, the collection of bacteria and other microorganisms in the gut.
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