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• a  of or involving or caused by or being microbes
  microbial warfare

• As a microbial drifter, you can literally travel the world, hopping from host to host when the opportunity presents itself or when conditions at your temporary residence start .
• While the concept of microbial fuel cells has worked in laboratory tests, applying it to slugs turns out to be a sticky proposition.
• Year by year, Yellowstone's hot waters are yielding remarkable new microbial specimens with implications for medicine, agriculture and energy, as well as offering clues to the .

• microbic

News & Articles

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• Danger Waits on Red Planet
  The pervading carpet of perchlorate chemicals found on Mars may boost the chances that microbial life exists on the Red Planet — but perchlorates are also perilous to the health of future crews destined to explore that way-off world.
  June 14, 2013 - Fox News
• Secrets of biological soil crusts uncovered
  Biologists have performed a molecular level analysis of desert biological soil crusts -- living ground cover formed by microbial communities -- to reveal how long-dormant cyanobacteria become activated by rainfall then resume dormancy when the precipitation stops.
  June 14, 2013 - Science Daily
• Toxic Mars: Astronauts Must Deal with Perchlorate on the Red Planet
  The pervading carpet of perchlorate chemicals found on Mars may boost the chances that microbial life exists on the Red Planet — but perchlorates are also perilous to the health of future crews destined to explore that way-off world.
  June 13, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Margaret Chan in The Muslim News
  Warning that "HIV, Ebola, SARS and avian influenza will not be the last bad surprises delivered by the ever-changing microbial world," Dr Chan said the global outbreak alert and response mechanisms already in place were not enough to prevent a...
• Francis Collins in Nashua Telegraph
  Our goal is to discover what microbial communities exist in different parts of the body and to explore how these communities change in the presence of health or disease,said Francis S. Collins, director of the NIH's National Human Genome...