Microbes: Our tiny, crucial allies
- Written by David R. Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
In us, on us and all around us.Microbes image via www.shutterstock.com.Most of us considered microbes little more than nasty germs before science recently began turning our view of the microbial world on its head. A “microbe” is a bacterium and any other organism too small to see with the naked eye. After decades of trying to sanitize...