Microbe in a sentence as a noun

A silicon-based microbe would be hard pressed to explain its distaste for water to its carbon-based neighbor.

My favorite, from Steward Brand:Confronting a difficult problem we might fruitfully ask, "What would a microbe do?

The only difference is when probiotics are used, there is a lessened chance of a harmful microbe overgrowth.

You forgot the infamous arsenic paper, and the microbe fossils in meteorites from Mars paper.

My next door neighbour is a scientist who researches the connection between gastrointestinal microbes and mental wellbeing.

Eventually, the alien microbe and/or the natural Earth microbes will mutate in order to out-survive the other.

He is not to be confounded with the microbe, or bacillus; by its inability to discern him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct species.

Just as a microbe might feel proud of spreading a pestilence, so the pessimistic mouse might exult to think that he was renewing in the cat the torture of conscious existence.

So these are generalized resistance mechanisms that target a broad array of environmental stuff that might ordinarily **** a microbe.

Excerpt:In westerners, Bifidumbacterium is a microbe that many nutrition scientists thought was essential to good gut health, but it is almost completely absent in the foragers.

And even assuming a "super fit" carbon-base alien microbe, the worst you could get would be some kind of eco-disaster that will end up being controlled anyway - like some sort of alien-algae overpopulating our oceans doing some eco-havoc.

If you want to add a genetic pathway to produce a chemical product, it's typically <10 additional genes that need to be added to a production microbe and that will be <50 kilobases typically.> Any pointers onto papers that have come out of this or new > medicines, etc?There are lots of industrial microbes out there now. For example, most Amino Acids that go into food supplements are made at massive scale - >1M tons/year by engineered microbes.

Microbe definitions

noun

a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

See also: germ