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Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
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Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food WebTeaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial substances, many of them toxic to humans as well as other forms of life. But there is an alternative to this vicious circle: to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web — the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions create a nurturing environment for plants. 
 
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Tags: plants, other, circle, vicious, garden, Teaming, Guide, Microbes
Emerging Cancer Therapy: Microbial Approaches and Biotechnological Tools
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Emerging Cancer Therapy: Microbial Approaches and Biotechnological ToolsEmerging Cancer Therapy: Microbial Approaches and Biotechnological Tools

Explores current and emerging applications of microbes as cancer-fighting agents.
Today, treatment options for cancer patients typically include surgery, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy. While these therapies have saved lives and reduced pain and suffering, cancer still takes millions of lives every year around the world. In recent years, researchers have been working on a new strategy: developing microbes and microbial products that specifically attack cancer cells.
 
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Tags: cancer, microbes, lives, researchers, working, Biotechnological, Emerging