The phrase "a microbe that can" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the capabilities or functions of a specific microbe in a scientific or educational context.
Example: "Researchers discovered a microbe that can break down plastic waste in the environment."
Alternatives: "an organism capable of" or "a microorganism that is able to".
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin have now discovered a microbe that can tolerate extreme acidity as well as the Man of Steel can.
Having identified a sequence containing the calcium-dependence gene, the researchers cloned it and injected it into a microbe that can be cultured.
The popular rejection last year of the discovery of a microbe that can live on arsenic was mercifully swift precisely because it was executed by online outsiders.
January 27 , 2010A collaboration led by UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Jay Keasling, and by bioengineering graduate student Eric Steen, has developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass.
The microbes - members of the domain of one-celled creatures called Archaea - are smaller than other known microorganisms, rivaled in size only by a microbe that can survive solely as a parasite attached to the outside of other cells.
In two related studies, researchers discovered a microbe that can activate an immune response; in germ-free mice that were genetically predisposed to autoimmune arthritis, it was enough to cause the disease.
It is caused by a waterborne microbe that can dehydrate and kill a healthy adult in hours by inducing vomiting and diarrhea.
Many scientists are familiar with Thermus aquaticus, a thermophilic microbe that can survive temperatures upwards of 70°C, the source of the first thermostable DNA polymerase, Taq.
Aquaporin is working on a synthetic microbe that can purify water.
P. aeroginosa is a "ubiquitous microbe" that can make its way into pools via people, dirt, kickboard and other foam items, or even the water used to fill the pool in the first place.
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a multi-institutional partnership led by Berkeley Lab, have identified a tropical rainforest microbe that can endure relatively high concentrations of an ionic liquid used to dissolve cellulosic biomass.
