microbe
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"Maybe the microbes can digest the plastic waste. Maybe, I hope," she said.
From Barron's
The researchers also point out that amoebae can act as protective hosts for other disease-causing microbes.
From Science Daily
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.
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
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