Obviously, your goal as a microbe is to grow and survive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
How do you go about deciding which microbe is the most important?. From Wordnik.com. [Gut Reactions] Reference
I think that microbe is so cute (something you never think you'd hear yourself say)!. From Wordnik.com. [A Pox on You] Reference
I am SHOCKED that you did not mention that the microbe was a CCC!. From Wordnik.com. [Bonus Side Tangent Contest Results] Reference
This chestnut blight belongs to the microbe group and the microbe is the great enemy of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
The investigations have resulted in the discovery of the malarial microbe, which is the germ of this awful and widespread destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks by the Traveller's Way] Reference
The ethanol toxicity posed another problem, but through the optimization of an existing efflux pump the microbe was able to protect itself. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
The fear of the microbe is the mother of virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Life Behind the Purdah] Reference
However, the term "microbe" includes only a few dozen really harmful kinds of micro-organisms. From Wordnik.com. [Of Microbes, Man and Survival] Reference
At that time the word "microbe" and the theory of its significance was in the full swell of popular use. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference
How do you get the mice to have the same kind of microbe biome - the same kind of microorganisms in their gut as humans do?. From Wordnik.com. [Bacterial Bonanza: Microbes Keep Us Alive] Reference
I wish that Darwin's splendid candour could be conveyed by some description of spiritual "microbe" to those who write about him. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference
«antibiotic», and it represents an antibacterial substance, produced by a microbe which is antagonstic in action to another. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 - Presentation Speech] Reference
When an evil microbe finds no foothold it withers away. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
All this trouble has been caused by one little native microbe. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
And after a long time some microbe things came out of the ooze. From Wordnik.com. [bomb] Reference
A microscopic microbe, very minute, widely distributed in all matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference
But he believes it is different from any previously identified microbe. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery Deepens] Reference
It is the foe of many a deadly microbe which seeks a lodging in our bodies. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
In wars the microbe kills about eight men for every one killed by missiles. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
At that time the microbe was not a factor in the probabilities of life or death. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
Example: "World powers created a black and dirty microbe named the Zionist regime.". From Wordnik.com. [Alan Elsner: Ahmadinejad Next Week at the U.N. -- What to Watch For] Reference
I could have made that dog as small as a microbe, even sub-visible perhaps, if I chose. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
And John says the eggs will stay microbe-free for several weeks, even at room temperature. From Wordnik.com. [With Salmonella, It's A Chicken-Or-Egg Conundrum] Reference
Care must be taken not to exaggerate the predominance of the new microbe over the bacteridum. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
It is a truism that an epidemic requires not only a microbe but also a receptive social context. From Wordnik.com. [Eurasia And The Epidemic] Reference
The culprit will likely be enterococcus, the blood-poisoning microbe that killed Gibert's patient. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of Antibiotics] Reference
But a growing number of experts suspect this is only the beginning of the mischief the microbe causes. From Wordnik.com. [Cardiac Contagion] Reference
Might it be from an unknown microbe that infected the dinosaur bones, and not from the dinosaur itself?. From Wordnik.com. [Eons-Old Genes] Reference
Listeria monocytogenes, a microbe found in a wide variety of foods, rarely causes illness in healthy adults. From Wordnik.com. [How Safe Is Our Food?] Reference
Scientists still don't know whether the microbe came from an animal, like HIV, or if it's a mutated human virus. From Wordnik.com. [Tracking A Killer Virus] Reference
At the viral level, influenza is an awfully sloppy microbe that is in a constant state of mutation and evolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Pandemic] Reference
Today, says Grayston, no one familiar with the literature denies that the microbe is associated with vascular disease. From Wordnik.com. [Cardiac Contagion] Reference
In "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" the author describes his wonderment after examining a microbe inside a water droplet. From Wordnik.com. [A Plushy Plague?] Reference
Anyone sharing a poorly ventilated space with a coughing sufferer can contract the culpable microbe (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). From Wordnik.com. [A New Face For An Old Nemesis] Reference
Sometimes called SE, it's a microbe that has been around a long time and has found a new or better way to reach its human victims. From Wordnik.com. [Egg-loving salmonella bacteria have been sickening people for decades] Reference
Any mutation that rendered a given strain of the microbe drug -- resistant would also make that strain more virulent, they thought. From Wordnik.com. [Returns an Ancient Disease] Reference
It was the hospital's doctors who finally tamed the disease, which is caused by a microbe and spreads through the respiratory system. From Wordnik.com. [The Only World They Know] Reference
But sometimes, by chance, a bacterium acquires a trait that fights back against the antibiotic, making the microbe resistant to the drug. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of Antibiotics] Reference
NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a Japanese microbe that actually altered its genes in order to feast on an ancient version of the maki roll. From Wordnik.com. [How Gut Bacteria Evolved To Feast On Sushi] Reference
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