This section of the blog features one microbe per article. It’s a great primer to get to know the members of the microbial world.
Head on below to meet a microbe or two!
This post is part of the Meet a Microbe series on the blog. Check it out to meet other microbes! “Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of…
This post is part of the Meet a Microbe series on the blog. Check it out to meet other microbes! The first Microbe of the Month is Helicobacter pylori, my favorite bacterium during my graduate school years. Discovery of Helicobacter pylori Stomach ulcers were traditionally thought to be caused by stress. However, in 1982 Barry Marshall and…