All 15 Uses of
microbe
in
Oryx and Crake
- The goal of the pigoon project was to grow an assortment of foolproof human-tissue organs ... that ... would also be able to fend off attacks by opportunistic microbes and viruses, of which there were more strains every year.
p. 22.7microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
- The bad microbes and viruses want to get in through the cell doors and eat up the pigoons from the inside.
p. 29.4
- On her computer screen she showed Jimmy pictures of the cells, pictures of the microbes, pictures of the microbes getting into the cells and infecting them and bursting them open, close-up pictures of the proteins, pictures of the drugs she had once tested.
p. 29.6
- On her computer screen she showed Jimmy pictures of the cells, pictures of the microbes, pictures of the microbes getting into the cells and infecting them and bursting them open, close-up pictures of the proteins, pictures of the drugs she had once tested.
p. 29.7
- The microbes will get into them!
p. 30.1
- She let Jimmy play with the pictures on her computer, and once he learned how to run the programs, he could play war games with them — cells versus microbes.
p. 30.3
- But the rakunks caught on as pets, inside OrganInc They hadn't come in from the outside world — the world outside the Compound — so they had no foreign microbes and were safe for the pigoons.
p. 51.6
- A microbe that ate the tar in asphalt had turned several interstate highways to sand.
p. 216.5microbe = a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
- Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever.
p. 223.7microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
- Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries.
p. 253.9microbe = a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
- Crake had nose cones for them too, the latest model, not just to filter microbes but also to skim out particulate.
p. 287.8microbes = living organisms such as a bacterium, or virus that are so small, they can be seen only with a microscope
- The ones that were pulling those capers, the asphalt-eating microbes, the outbreak of neon-coloured herpes simplex on the west coast, the ChickieNob wasps and so on.
p. 298.9
- As for immunity from microbes, what had until now been done with drugs would soon be innate.
p. 304.7
- We're seeing some very strange microbe activity here.
p. 338.9microbe = a living organism such as a bacterium, or virus that is so small, it can be seen only with a microscope
- He rubs some antibiotic gel into the cut, but without much faith: the microbes infecting him have doubtless already mounted their resistance and are simmering away in there, turning his flesh to porridge.
p. 358.7 *microbes = germs