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Would it be so thrilling to find, say, a microbe on one of Saturn's moons, or is sentient life the only kind that would have significant ramifications for us on Earth?
The detection of a single piece of pond slime, one alien microbe, on some other world would rank as one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science.
But the study, which appeared in the journal Cell Host & Microbe on Wednesday, finds that one of the most common antibiotics used to treat the infection may inadvertently activate the body's own pathogen-defense system and worsen MRSA skin infections. .
As we tremble with anticipation at the prospect of finding a single microbe on another planet, under our feet we're wilfully executing a mass extinction event.
An article in The Boston Globe in 2008 said the group raised "fears that people could create a deadly microbe on purpose".
The discovery of a microbe on a Saturnian moon would certainly be thrilling to a biologist, and I hope it would also be thrilling to anyone who gave thought to our place in the cosmos.
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And which genes do the microbes switch on?
But astronauts there can now worry less about one potential nightmare: the prospect that harmless microbes on Earth may evolve into killers in space.
The only difference is that you might might be in close contact with more people than you're used to, which makes it more likely that one of them will be sick and pass those microbes on to you.
For two minutes, the bag was pummelled by metal paddles, leaving food particles on one side of the mesh and a homogenized slurry of microbes on the other.
The advance is as inexorable, and natural, as that of rust on iron or microbes on a plate of agar.
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