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knowledge about microbes helps scientists understand climate change and the forces that shape the health of our planet.
Two recent Kavli Foundation spotlights highlighted the microbiome's powerful influence on the brain — which affects our emotions, our thoughts and even our memory — as well as how new
knowledge about microbes is informing the next missions to search for life in our solar system.
Not exact matches
In the future, the
knowledge about beneficial fungi could also help to develop sustainable solutions for agriculture, the scientist says: «Inoculants based on these beneficial
microbes help to «immunize» the plants against pathogens and pests, thereby reducing yield losses due to infections, in a sustainable way.»
If the team gets the tool flight - certified to test it on the ISS, the results could fill a
knowledge gap
about how much spaceships carrying humans will leak and vent
microbes.