Anthony Fauci

The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

American Scientist

Margaret Chan

Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units.

Chinese Public Servant

Paul Davies

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.

British Writer

Paul Stamets

My team and I have discovered, over decades of study, that mushroom mycelium is a rich resource of new antimicrobial compounds, which work in concert, helping protecting the mushrooms - and us - from microbial pathogens.

Freeman Dyson

The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.

American Physicist

Ahmed Zewail

Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization.

Egyptian Scientist

Craig Venter

The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there.

Chuck Palahniuk

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

American Novelist

Debra Fischer

If few worlds have microbial life, it dramatically reduces the chances that more complex organisms exist.

Kathleen Rubins

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

American Astronaut

Often used when talking about illnesses caused by invisible organisms.

Disease Association

Commonly found in health and science discussions, less so in everyday conversation.

Scientific Context

The term itself is neither negative nor positive; context shows if the microbe is harmful or helpful.

Neutral Connotation

Indicates a broad range of organisms, not specifically those that cause disease.

Scientific Broadness

Often mentioned in environmental sciences and studies of ecological systems.

Environmental Focus

 Those spots are evidence of an epic battle between plants and microbes. Like humans, plants coexist with billions of fungi and bacteria. Some of these microbes are beneficial to the plant, suppressing disease and helping it extract nutrients. Others are pathogens, attacking the produce,

Are spotty fruits and...

 can create fantastic habitats for life microbes such as these cyanobacteria live inside impact sorted rocks and they use them for energy and for protection these are actually two types of organisms we expect to find on Mars now finally the most mars-like

What does an alien look...

 We are the only advanced civilization in the solar system, but that doesn't mean that there is no microbial life nearby. In fact, the planets and moons you see here could host life -- all of them -- and we know that, and it's a strong possibility.

Nathalie Cabrol: How...

 a rigid web of compounds that's tough to chew and highly impermeable to pathogens. Leaves are protected by a waxy cuticle that deters insects and microbes. Some plants go a step further with painful structures to warn would-be predators.

The amazing ways plants...

 But what exactly are preservatives? How do they help keep food edible and are they safe? There are two major factors that cause food to go microbes and oxidation. Microbes like bacteria and fungi invade food and feed off its nutrients.

Are food preservatives...

 carbon dioxide, and methane. Almost all oxygen was locked up in molecules like water, not floating around in the air. The oceans were populated by anaerobic microbes. Those are simple, unicellular life forms that thrive without oxygen

How a single-celled...

 UHT milk boasts a much longer shelf life, up to twelve months unrefrigerated, compared to pasteurized milk's two weeks in the fridge. That's because the higher temperatures of UHT processing inactivate far more microbes.

The science of milk -...

 Diet, too, is emerging as one of the leading influences on the health of our guts. And while we can't control all these factors, we can manipulate the balance of our microbes by paying attention to what we eat.

How the food you eat...

 to a microbe traveling through the albument of the yolk is like a human trying to walk across a desert there's nothing to sustain life but albumin contains lots of other things

Nature's First Line of...

 the bouquets are very unique we're looking at a couple of different things but they Center on possible microbial life that lives in these caves