These unicellular organisms evolved into multicellular organisms and eventually gained nervous systems.
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This insures our survival: organisms working together can do so much more than organisms working apart or in parallel.
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Keep in mind that no single species lives in isolation—it feeds on other organisms, and other organisms feed on it.
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Early life on Earth was simple: single-celled organisms evolved into multicellular organisms that were mostly immobile and lived in the water.
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This straightforward approach is risk-based, in that the organisms required to undergo case-by-case governmental review are an enhanced-risk group (organisms that are known to injure or damage plants), unlike organisms not considered to be plant pests.
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These are organisms that have proper nuclei in their cells—namely plants, animals, fungi and a range of single-celled organisms called protists.
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Many of these organisms had an architecture unlike any seen in modern organisms, said Martin Smith, a paleontologist at Durham University in England.
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Other organisms, such as choanoflagellates and filastereans (simple, amoeba-like organisms), were unlikely to produce the biomarkers seen in the fossil, the researchers say.
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The nanoceria are designed to mimic the way enzymes work in living organisms, and—fingers crossed—protect organisms against damage caused by oxidative stress.
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Invasive infections "Typically, fungus and particularly candida species are commensal organisms or organisms that live within us, that live within our guts," Armstrong said.
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Group selection is a big part of the great transitions of evolution, where life progressed from bacterium-like organisms to cells with structures inside, and on to simple organisms that were collections of these cells, to the differentiated organisms forming groups, and so on.
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Knowing such organisms exist on Earth not only broadens where we look for alien organisms but also suggests what to search for when we look.
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The history of the mitochondria is inextricably wrapped up in the history of eukaryotic organisms, the domain of organisms that includes all plant and animal life.
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Same goes for the organisms with the antibiotic-resistant genes the researchers detected: we don't actually know if those organisms could have caused a drug-resistant infection.
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A new study shows what kinds of organisms you encounter in hospitals — and how patients and the hospital rooms they're in exchange these organisms with one another.
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Most living organisms, including those that built the stromatolites, ultimately derive their energy from photosynthesis, the process by which plants and some micro-organisms convert sunlight into sugar.
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Our bodies are home to tiny organisms called microbes that play a big role in health, and scientists have developed a new way to track these organisms using sound.
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This happened when single cell organisms evolved to become organisms made of several cells - or when the first societies of primates formed, eventually leading to the rise of humanity.
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" Platt says Baractrema obamai "are phenomenally incredibly resilient organisms.
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"Some thought that our criteria for designating GE [genetically engineered] organisms as regulated organisms were too expansive, potentially resulting in our regulating a wider range of GE organisms than necessary and thereby increasing, rather than reducing, the regulatory burden for the biotechnology industry," the agency's acting director of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service wrote in an official document.
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"It was apparent there were many different types of organisms in the environment, and yet if you tried to grow them, you might see 1 percent of the organisms being grown," he said.
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Scientists also looked at traces of organisms that live beneath floating ice shelves of the Antarctic Peninsula , specifically at the balance between organisms that thrive in light and those that excel in darkness.
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Babies are exposed to some organisms in utero, but the organisms encountered during birth and the first months of life have the greatest influence on those that become permanent residents in their guts.
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"It's happening faster than organisms can respond evolutionarily," Wagner said.
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Even the same organisms have rates that vary over time.
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Dishonesty is abundant across organisms of all sizes and relationships.
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The organisms can be an important food source for fish.
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Living organisms are shaped by evolution to survive and reproduce.
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After all, we are living, breathing organisms, not inanimate machines.
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"You're reducing the number of organisms that collect," he says.
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"In general, phytoplankton support fish, shellfish, and other marine organisms."
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Remicade and Neupogen are biologic drugs made from living organisms.
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People need to be enticed to study hitherto neglected organisms.
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Terms like "GMO" and "Genetically Modified Organisms" are scientifically arbitrary.
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It provides at least 25 harvested species of marine organisms.
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If the world were constant, organisms would likely be asexual.
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But how could habituation happen in unicellular organisms without neurons?
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To make carbon fixation happen, organisms use molecules called enzymes.
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They provide the structure for other organisms to live there.
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You see all kinds of worms, more and more organisms.
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In Unbalanced Force, two robotic organisms climb a vertical rope.
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PD: We've heard of all sorts of organisms being used.
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Auctions are living organisms with a life of their own.
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The organisms can survive, if water temperatures go back down.
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Genetically modified organisms are perhaps the best example of this.
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Chronobiologists study how living organisms process the passage of time.
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One of the smallest organisms in the world saved us.
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They don't know if these organisms conceal a miracle medicine.
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Individual organisms like plants on Earth produce oxygen through photosynthesis.
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Was he still studying the organisms that lived inside figs?
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Whatever the exact tabulations of armaments, militaries are complex organisms.
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We're learning to program organisms in all kinds of ways.
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In Thompson's analogy, the Warburg effect can be thought of as a social failure: a breakdown of the nutrient-sharing agreement that single-celled organisms signed when they joined forces to become multicellular organisms.
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Scientists believe the methane could stem from micro-organisms, called methanogenes, that either became extinct millions of years ago and left gas frozen below the planet's surface, or that some methane-producing organisms still survive.
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That means that organisms absorb the PCBs, then they get eaten by other organisms like little fish, and then those little fish will get eaten by bigger fish all the way up the food chain.
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It was such a strange environment, but you could look at it and think: There's heat, there's water, there's all these volcanic minerals that organisms love—it's a perfect environment for some really tough organisms.
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What consequences all this has for the Mariana's organisms is unclear.
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You'd expect natural selection to favor organisms that use energy efficiently.
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Just half this pressure would kill most other organisms on Earth.
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Biologists know of two ways co-operation between organisms can evolve.
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It's definitely one of the most unusual organisms on the planet.
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You also share bugs—microscopic organisms (think bacteria, fungi, and viruses).
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To that end, they have turned their attention to existing organisms.
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But there are plenty of organisms carrying the names of celebs.
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Say what you will about mice — at least they're complete organisms.
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These include understanding widespread public rejection of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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Coral are symbiotic organisms that are part animal, plant, and mineral.
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"They set the stage for other organisms," Adams said in 2016.
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They are macroscopic organisms that can be easily manipulated and observed.
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Some of the robot's modules use living organisms as toxin detectors.
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Wherever a man touches, there are feces and fecal organisms present.
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Cyanobacteria are microscopic single-celled organisms that produce oxygen through photosynthesis.
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The Isua structures, if indeed stromatolites, would represent fairly evolved organisms.
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But in a deoxygenated ocean, marine organisms won't have such luck.
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But the oldest living organisms in Africa -- baobab trees -- are abundant.
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It can increase productivity and provide living space for other organisms.
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They were looking for shells that belonged to single-celled organisms.
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Musicals are living organisms whose performances change from night to night.
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The NBA regular season and postseason are two very different organisms.
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Organisms survive this environment by having efficient gills or minimizing movement.
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The bizarre organisms of the Ediacaran Period have long puzzled researchers.
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Earlier campaigns took aim at fracking, vaccination and genetically modified organisms.
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They might experiment on organisms in makeshift labs in their garages.
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The tender seeks corn (maize) free of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs).
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The tender seeks corn (maize) free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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Like other organisms, humans are in the survival and reproduction game.
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Read more on why infant exposure to micro-organisms is important.
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They are the most successful group of organisms on the planet.
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But it's not the only way organisms make food from scratch.
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Opponents of genetically modified organisms were quick to criticize the study.
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The issue is that not all micro-organisms leave behind fossils.
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It makes it difficult for organisms to build shells and skeletons.
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Tardigrades are microscopic organisms with a reputation for being practically indestructible.
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Few organisms can directly take in this bounty hiding in seawater.
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Sediment, salinity and other organisms can also affect a lake's pinkness.
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It alters rivers and ecosystems, affecting the organisms that inhabit them.
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Absorbing mitochondria from other single-celled organisms, or bacteria, or something.
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They collected organisms in trawl nets, on the final day attaching a small aquarium to the back of one net that kept most of the organisms they photographed on the ship alive and in good shape.
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Although the process is not well-understood in planarians, their ability may be shared by many other organisms: "Simple organisms with simple eyes and a brain can do a lot of complex processing," said Dr. Gulyani.
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In contrast, bioengineered organisms require fewer resources and smaller facilities to make, and it is harder to readily distinguish between organisms that are being developed for scientific purposes from those that are being developed with malicious intent.
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We were looking at average trends over this large class of organisms.
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It eats microscopic organisms in the water, filtering it as it feeds.
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Virulent organisms like vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), MRSA and Clostridium difficile (C.
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They're messing with the growth and development of organisms in local streams.
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Like many mountain-dwelling organisms, this species is threatened by climate change.
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We have modified the genetic programs of organisms to solve hard problems.
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Initially, organisms stop having to change habitats in response to rising temperatures.
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Nothing is processed, and everything is free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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Light reflected off the organisms gives the ocean's surface its colorful patterns.
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To begin, how many species of organisms are known on the planet?
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It is even becoming possible to redesign human cells and other organisms.
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Without that we are merely automatons, we are merely organisms that behave.
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These "mistakes" are mutations, and viruses mutate rapidly compared to other organisms.
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As single-celled organisms, yeast will never have the visibility of hops.
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But organisms become resistant to those efforts over time, Professor Perfecto said.
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An obsessive naturalist who wades in alkaline pools for imagined proto-organisms.
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Organisms developed systems, subsystems, and sub-subsystems, layered in ever-deepening regression.
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Other mitochondria-less organisms live in oxygen-poor environments, Dr. Huchon said.
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Take a Number It can often take millenniums for organisms to evolve.
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But not all those micro-organisms are bad for us, experts note.
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"We call seagrass the ugly stepchild of marine organisms," said Dr. Lamb.
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Or is it more of a cultural distrust of the few organisms?
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This usually happens through inhalation, where the organisms go into the lungs.
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The equipment necessary to work with biological organisms can be purchased online.
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He and his colleagues are looking for signs of antibiotic-resistant organisms.
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No matter where they come from, many microplastics end up getting washed out to sea where they can be gobbled up by organisms — including some of the organisms we humans love to eat, like shrimp, oysters, and mussels.
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In tropical areas, which have the highest biodiversity, organisms would have to move at around 9.8 kilometers per year, or around 6 miles per year, which is far above the maximum speed the majority of organisms can move.
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He points out that "there are more single-celled organisms alive on Earth than there are Earthlike planets in the observable universe"; that the number of single-celled organisms that have lived on this planet over the course of 3.8 billion years is beyond calculation; that these organisms have interacted "gazillions" of times (I love it when words of the appropriate magnitude desert even the experts).
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It was inevitable that bacteria would adapt to dodge the effects of even the best antibiotics, since those antibiotics were essentially just chemicals produced by co-evolving organisms, or synthesized to mimic what those co-evolving organisms would produce.
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Organisms called cyanobacteria absorb sunlight to create energy, releasing oxygen in the process.
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She deduced that the organisms had survived, frozen, for at least eight years.
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Rather than studying organisms, they study equations and shapes using their own techniques.
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By this definition there can be little doubt that plants are conscious organisms.
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Known as bilaterian organisms, these animals featured a head, tail, back, and stomach.
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Others have demonstrated some level of microplastic trophic transfer in lower-level organisms.
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Papineau began to wonder if similar organisms existed some 4 billion years ago.
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Eventually, they concluded there was evidence for microfossils of ancient iron-oxidizing organisms.
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There's no sign that any other organisms have been capable of building civilizations.
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And most of life has been single-celled organisms, not even multicellular life.
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But critics worry about the long-term effects of releasing genetically modified organisms.
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The enzyme can be found even in other organisms, like fungi to bacteria.
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The organisms in soil have an impact on the health of our food.
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Scientists still don't know for sure that these organisms are even over there.
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The remaining 80% is produced by micro-organisms which break down organic matter.
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Iron helps encourage the growth of phytoplankton, plant-like organisms that sequester CO2.
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He believes there's still a chance that of finding living organisms on Mars.
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His hypothesis: perhaps coelenterazine first proliferated in marine organisms living in surface waters.
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Still, researchers have not discovered how organisms other than Oba's copepods make coelenterazine.
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Organisms with more cells should therefore have a higher risk of developing it.
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Villeneuve sent Konig photos of cuttlefish, squids, and various microscopic organisms for inspiration.
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Organisms coevolve with the pathogens they carry, like our relationship with the flu.
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Lacking oxygen, they would have slowed the activities of wood-destroying micro-organisms.
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It comes in part from the microbiota, or the organisms in the gut.
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At maturity, they are dramatically different organisms, but they start out nearly identical.
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The existence of a "programmable cell" blurs life and nonlife, organisms and messages.
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These shell-forming annelids have become model organisms for students of ship-fouling.
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In every biological laboratory are actual living organisms that only exist in laboratories.
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We're a long way from programming organisms' DNA the way we program software.
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At first glance, the sculptures of Dan Lam might seem like living organisms.
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Proteins are the machinery of cells, doing the work that keeps organisms alive.
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Organisms pass on their characteristics to their offspring, but with random variation (mutation).
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In your newest project you use reflection, luminous bio-organisms, and energy production.
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Genetic changes and breeding have resulted in very different organisms for both. 21.
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Then, 600 million years ago, organisms that experience things, creatures with feelings, appeared.
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The design of nervous systems provided organisms with a unique, private, subjective perspective.
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Organisms from different branches can transfer genes to each other — and often do.
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The raft is believed to be home to organisms like crabs and corals.
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Just about all social organisms make group decisions that require reaching a consensus.
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That is the mind-bogglingly complex web of DNA-based organisms on Earth.
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Carbon is naturally stored in the atmosphere, oceans, plants, rocks and living organisms.
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They also capture the emission of light from undersea organisms like poisonous algae.
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Much of the discussion focused on the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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So a warm welcome to the xenobots, hybrid robot-organisms like no other.
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"This enzyme action is similar from the simplest organisms to humans," Blackburn said.
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So I was thinking: Is it possible to cultivate organisms without a microbiologist?
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Most scientists agree that genetically modified organisms, or G.M.O.s, are safe to eat.
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These Ediacaran-era organisms were fantastically weird creatures, soft-bodied and typically immobile.
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"It's a shift in what is usable by the organisms," Dr. Osborne said.
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Other types of model organisms include fruit flies and certain types of yeast.
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Of those 23 organisms, just three were being developed by major agriculture firms.
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In particular, there are hopes that the new field of synthetic biology will come up with ways of generating esters and fatty acids in fast-growing micro-organisms—or even arrange for those micro-organisms to synthesise the relevant hydrocarbons directly.
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" What biology and computation have in common: "As human beings we might not like to think of ourselves this way but we, like other mammals, like other vertebrates, like other multicellular organisms, like other organisms are largely vehicles for replicating DNA.
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This trend had led from single-celled creatures to multi-celled organisms, from multi-celled organisms to creatures with hearts, lungs, and brains, and from creatures with brains to beings who could read, write, and communicate across thousands of miles.
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European Union laws strictly control the use and authorization to grow GM organisms, but last October environment minister George Eustice said the British government was considering "possible future arrangements" for the regulation of GM organisms after Britain leaves the bloc.
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How have your views on studying evolution via these digital organisms changed over time?
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Our own planet hosts life in amazing complexity, from single-celled organisms to humans.
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Environmentalists have long decried genetically modified organisms, but will they embrace them for conservation?
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They hint at hidden forces shaping the genome—and the organisms that genomes beget.
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This hypothesis hasn't been tested in animals, but there is evidence from other organisms.
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Take the urchin and decorator crabs, which wear other organisms as hats and jackets.
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What's more, plastic leaches harmful chemicals that can be toxic to many marine organisms.
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Now researchers are saying that a whole variety of organisms could have flourished there.
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These pictures offer plenty of organisms that look alien to most people, even comical.
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The most shocking part of it was all the ships filled with tiny organisms.
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The release of more greenhouse gases as organisms decompose in newly active soil layers.
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It is hard work to corral cells and higher organisms to do humans' bidding.
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They are thought to have been formed when micro-organisms decayed and were fossilised.
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Methane can be produced by a variety of processes, not just by living organisms.
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When lying still, these single-cell organisms resemble white blood cells under a microscope.
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For organisms living many miles beneath Enceladus's crust, this seems like a viable option.
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We have been shaping the organisms that live around us for a long time.
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This is done by synthesizing (printing) DNA, which is then transformed (injected) into organisms.
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These organisms naturally make antibiotics for their own survival, to compete against other bacteria.
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Picture a huge population of organisms all living together on one island, for example.
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He thinks copepods are key to understanding why so many marine organisms are bioluminescent.
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Now, the technology is cheap and fast enough to allow for non-standard organisms.
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Without all of these other organisms, apex predators would not be able to exist.
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"Lyme disease plus these other organisms is what's making people chronically ill," Newby said.
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Organisms can survive not only in cold water but some live in the ice.
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Instead they were searching the Atlantic Ocean for tiny single-celled organisms called foraminifera.
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Colonies of unaltered organisms must always be retained, so that they can be reintroduced.
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But it was not imagined that single-cell organisms like bacteria had such systems.
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They are blamed for doing what all organisms do—attempt to reproduce and survive.
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Organisms that sexually reproduce get two copies of each gene, one from each parent.
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The finding confirms that Earth was home to microbial organisms 3.5 billions years ago.
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Research into organisms that live inside plants increased ten-fold from 1995 to 2015.
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The abyssal plain is covered with soft sludge composed of dead organisms from above.
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"Chances are, things are at least safe in [terms of] pathogenic organisms," Reckhow says.
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Q&A They don't need sunlight because they are busy feeding on other organisms.
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Scientists see potential for using these organisms to treat diseases from diabetes to cancer.
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Amber - fossilized tree sap - has preserved numerous small organisms including insects, lizards and frogs.
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Carbon molecules used and produced by living organisms have been identified on the planet.
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Take for example one of my favorite organisms on the planet: The bombardier beetle.
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The show's creators, David Simon and George Pelecanos, specialize in dissecting these urban organisms.
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So animals living in undersea deserts depend on carbon from decaying organisms from above.
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Despite the ubiquity of natural selection, organisms are not always getting better at surviving.
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Which is critical to the coast's ecosystem, since sea ice sustains millions of organisms.
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It also needs to be present for animals and many other organisms to survive.
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"But these organisms have evolved ways to feast on that sugar," Dr. Achlatis said.
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In today's 360 video, step into Mexican waters that are turned pink by organisms.
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Here are just a few: -That GMOs are the only unnaturally genetically manipulated organisms.
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They in turn provide habitat for a wide variety of other deep sea organisms.
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Scientists believe that methane, a chemical that on Earth is strongly tied to life, could stem from micro-organisms that either became extinct millions of years ago and left gas frozen below the planet's surface, or that some methane-producing organisms still survive.
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This piques researchers' interests because living organisms produce large amounts of methane here on Earth.
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These hot spots could be perfect places for small organisms — bacteria, for instance — to thrive.
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The movements are familiar and organic, but these organisms are unlike any found on Earth.
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"The organisms can be asymptomatic in some but cause severe symptoms in others," she adds.
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Algorithms apply to computational systems, but ecorithms can apply to biological organisms or entire species.
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Waves of studies in bacteria and more complex organisms have sought those answers for decades.
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Extremophile organisms, accustomed to arid conditions, were unable to cope with the influx of water.
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Prior to this, evolutionary biologists normally used similarity as a criterion to assign organisms together.
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These vampires simply cannot help destroying healthy organisms—it is literally how they sustain themselves.
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FDA findings aside, there are still worries about releasing genetically modified organisms into the ecosystem.
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Pushing organisms to the known limits of life can also help NASA find that life.
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I think most people think of intelligence as something mysterious and limited to biological organisms.
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They were able to see the taxa – the group of organisms – responsible for the disease.
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Past attempts to use living organisms to get rid of plastics have not gone well.
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Within 24 hours of the hospital's opening, the bacteria and organisms changed dramatically, Gilbert says.
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While safe to drink, these organisms can be dangerous when introduced into the nasal passages.
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This chemical keeps the battery free from marine organisms that might otherwise grow within it.
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It's cheap, durable, and doesn't react to the usual organisms that break down organic matter.
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To use microbes to deliver medicine, you need to know exactly where these organisms are.
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Bioluminescence exists in a wide range of organisms, including deep sea fish, fireflies, and glowworms.
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Environmental DNA works because all large organisms lose cells as they move through their environment.
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"The same organs in two different organisms provide a similar structure externally," he told Gizmodo.
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Other marine organisms—most notably, dinoflagellates—glow in response to some form of physical stimulation.
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And scientists are hoping to learn how to mimic these remarkable adaptations for other organisms.
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It's using living organisms as tiny factories to produce building materials for architecture and cities.
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This alone would have harmed the oysters, seagrass, and other saltwater-adapted organisms living there.
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We have even modified higher-level organisms to fight diseases, such as Zika-fighting mosquitoes.
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Of course, organisms can adapt to environmental changes in ways that don't necessarily imply learning.
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These organisms' uniqueness makes them immune to "every virus on Earth," explains cofounder Alexis Rovner.
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His latest novel, Super Extra Grande, concerns a biologist who specializes in extra-large organisms.
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A chimera is a single organism containing cells (and DNA) from two or more organisms.
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Seed banks function the same way, with dormant organisms becoming dominant when environmental conditions change.
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Now, scientists have turned their attention to the organisms that lived inside the Iceman's stomach.
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What organisms, items, or experiences does Cargo In The Blood serve as a taxonomy of?
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Organisms respond to environmental changes through both genetic processes (adaptation) and non-genetic ones (acclimatisation).
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Simply put, organisms don't—at least in theory—need to have the conscious experience of
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"You just thought there was no way these organisms could survive those conditions," said Rogers.
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The lake contains around 4,000 species of bacteria and other tiny organisms, the researchers found.
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Liberals and conservatives believe falsehoods about genetically modified organisms, and believe that vaccines cause autism.
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Understanding and exploiting such organisms for farming is a rapidly developing part of agricultural biotechnology.
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I just really love mushrooms in general—as organisms, as food items, as art objects.
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Their impoverished communities are complex organisms teeming with talent and grit that don't need saving.
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Farmers: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is delaying new rules for genetically engineered organisms.
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This is a potential exposure pathway for toxins to reach people and organisms, he said.
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This means that their thermoregulation processes are very different from warm-blooded, or endothermic, organisms.
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Mr. Greenblatt did what organisms threatened with extinction have always done to survive: He evolved.
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For one thing, charophytes are not single-celled organisms; instead, they grow complex, branching bodies.
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On those grounds, authorities in Sweden and America have distinguished CRISPR-edited organisms from GMOs.
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That natural selection favors organisms that self-limit their lifespans has some pretty profound implications.
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There could also be scope to improve soybean yields, including by using genetically modified organisms.
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"Evolution has been at work evolving cancer-resistant organisms for ... millions of years," Lynch said.
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It found that organisms created in a California lab behaved differently in a Brazilian factory.
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It's important to note that not all G.M.O.s, or genetically modified organisms, are necessarily bad.
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Instead, the organisms may have competed with one another with varying reproductive strategies, he suggested.
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The truth is, detritivores and decomposers are physical phenomena, mortal organisms like you and me.
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Genetically engineered organisms are finding their way into everything from food to fuel to chemistry.
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Evolution can be seen as a comparable learning process, applied to organisms instead of algorithms.
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Many marine organisms rely on chemical changes in water to find food and avoid danger.
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The research could lead to clues about left- and right-handed mysteries in other organisms.
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It has quickly become evident that these organisms play a distinct role in our health.
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The study is a reminder that even single-celled organisms can operate in sophisticated ways.
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Yet they're so simple that most scientists don't even consider them to be living organisms.
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Instead, he used chemistry to explain how undifferentiated balls of cells generated form in organisms.
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G.M.O.s — genetically modified organisms — and the crops they enable have become another field of battle.
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Until now, they've targeted small genetic fragments from specific organisms such as plants or viruses.
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The two live in symbiosis — organisms that feed off each other to maintain the balance.
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A coral reef is a large community of live organisms that live in one location.
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The red tides eventually disappear because the organisms that create them have a population bust.
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The possibilities of what planets and organisms we'll be able to find and name seem endless.
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The proposal follows spats on whether certain chemicals and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) should be approved.
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These organisms are vulnerable to conditions—if it's too hot, or too cold, or too dry.
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But all organisms are aware of their environment—you have to be in order to survive.
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Natural selection is purposeful There are many organisms that are not perfectly adapted to their environment.
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These organisms are injured and die under a net that has been caught on the rock.
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"Criteria are not well defined and are mainly based on 'distinctiveness' from other organisms," he said.
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In the complex cells of humans and other organisms, two different genomes collaborate to sustain life.
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When people are creating new synthetic organisms, how will they fit in our existing family trees?
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We've used huge quantities of antibiotics, and have created correspondingly huge populations of drug-resistant organisms.
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Craig Venter thinks that sending living organisms to other galaxies on spaceships is "definitely" science fiction.
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This is a fascinating group of organisms and I've essentially dedicated my life to studying them.
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The reasons, according to many in the field, are public concerns over genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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Engineering yeast in this way isn't unique, but the number of genes and organisms involved is.
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In one teaspoon of soil there are more organisms than there are humans on our planet.
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Honestly, it's kind of mind-blowing to know that we're related to either of these organisms.
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It's got a light, fleshy color, similar to other organisms that live in the deep deep.
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The fungus had to be feeding on something, after all, probably algae, lichens, or microbial organisms.
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Large projections show organisms created by visitors interacting in a "bio pool," which illustrate DNA concepts.
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So take time to show appreciation for these microscopic organisms' impact on your favorite aquatic creatures.
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Then, during the Proterozoic Era, advanced multicellular organisms called eukaryotes, with more specialized cells, finally emerged.
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David Benjamin's architecture studio, The Living, uses actual living organisms as part of the design process.
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He's also collaborating with microbial ecologists to investigate the extremophile organisms living in its scalding waters.
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These are more complex organisms than those found in the fossils that have come before them.
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The aging process appears to be controlled, in distantly related organisms, by similar genes and mechanisms.
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Plants are still considered to be "zombielike automata rather than full-blown living organisms," he said.
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"Diatomaceous earth is made from the fossilized remains of tiny aquatic organisms called diatoms," Brust says.
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Over time, organisms evolved different strategies—like luciferases and specialized light organs—to enhance this property.
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The crustaceans scavenge and rely on dead organisms that fall to the ocean floor for food.
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The undersea probe also took samples of seawater, sediment, and tiny organisms attached to the wreck.
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For the first time, scientists didn't need to culture organisms to study them in the lab.
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"There were all these hidden organisms, just waiting for the right conditions to appear," she said.
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Organisms' evolutionary history may play a large role in determining how vulnerable they are to radiation.
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These tough bacteria point to the type of organisms that could exist on planets like Mars.
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However, there are no sequences sufficiently intact to even consider this with the ancient multicellular organisms.
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The presumption behind the regulation of genetically modified organisms is that their spread can be contained.
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Certain organisms are featured, nearly anywhere you go in the world, and others are systematically excluded.
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Astrobiologists can use these organisms as a metric for projecting the habitability of worlds beyond Earth.
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"We know new organisms are being discovered every one or two years ... in ticks," said Fallon.
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In other words, something must be producing these chemicals, but that "something" isn't necessarily living organisms.
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Other details of their chemistry and minerals in the surrounding rocks also point to living organisms.
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There is life everywhere, and everywhere there's an awe-inspiring abundance of unexpected and unusual organisms.
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It is the sort of distrust that is reflected in the controversy over genetically modified organisms.
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Many people can accept genetically modified organisms, but would a human-animal chimera eventually become acceptable?
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Over millions of years, the duplicates mutated into new genes that gave the organisms new capabilities.
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They also create the conditions, and provide the raw materials, for methane generation by micro-organisms.
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Or imagine that harmful organisms exist on Mars and spacecraft inadvertently bring them back to Earth.
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Alternatively, a terrorist could design such nanobots to selectively destroy organisms with a specific genetic signature.
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Unlike GMOs, plants and animals edited by CRISPR do not contain DNA from any other organisms.
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A carapace is a shell found on the exteriors of arthropods and arachnids, amongst other organisms.
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But we'll need more than an army of plastic-eating organisms to solve our waste problem.
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Now, some people are treating genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, with the same level of vitriol.
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Small organisms live out their lives, catching prey, laying eggs, and doing their best to survive.
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According to the "Star Wars" canon, people contain within their cells intelligent organisms called midi-chlorians.
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The organisms are used to make proprietary flavorings and fragrances, nutritional supplements, pharmaceutical and agricultural products.
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Organic materials - carbon-based compounds critical for fostering living organisms - play a leading role on Titan.
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Fossils suggest the fern-like organisms lacked mouths, organs or a means of moving, researchers say.
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It is almost spiritual in its association with various sounds emitted by objects and living organisms.
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This group is based on the earliest fossils ever discovered, providing evidence of complex, multicellular organisms.
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Through teamwork and constant chemical communication, microorganisms shape the world on which we macro-organisms preen.
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The committee cited a potential risk of transferring pathogenic organisms from the woman to the neonate.
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These products can accumulate in living organisms over time, in both vacationing humans and sea creatures.
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There are even some fungi and multicellular organisms, like insects and worms, living deep below ground.
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They created a detailed mathematical model describing what happens following the release of Crispr-altered organisms.
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Carbon is captured by living organisms (and, increasingly, artificial ones) and converted into biomass or carbon.
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"Oxygen is the lifeblood of living organisms," said Dr. George Daley, dean of Harvard Medical School.
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This behavior is made possible by varying gravity sensors that many organisms carry inside their bodies.
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In many cases, these passages took years, longer than the life spans of the individual organisms.
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It results from an immune system gone haywire, attacking its own cells rather than invading organisms.
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Australia is a continent of fire, and as such, its organisms are adapted to the flames.
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While humans were busy domesticating dogs, the ice entrapped millions of microscopic organisms per square inch.
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Some of the biggest threats to the nation come from the smallest organisms on the planet.
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Milojevic said that the organisms also have potential in biomining, or extracting minerals from space rocks.
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Probiotics are live micro-organisms, usually bacteria, that provide health benefits when consumed at appropriate doses.
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Darroch notes that early animals may have choked out Ediacaran organisms by coiling around their bases.
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Fires consumed 70 percent of the world's forests and killed 99.9999 percent of all living organisms.
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But they're all extremophiles -- organisms that thrive in severe conditions that most species couldn't survive in.
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Organisms that live in and around reefs play an integral, often understated, role in drug development.
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They also have two sequencing centers, a group of people who do metabolomics, or study the small molecules made by cells, and a model organisms core, which is a group of people who check genes that might be causing disease in organisms like flies and fish.
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Just like humans, animals have a microcosm of organisms inhabiting their bodies — which help keep them healthy.
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People can be carrying C. diff organisms without having any symptoms, Freedberg told Reuters Health by email.
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So your interest in digital organisms was one reason you considered shutting down the long-term experiment.
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The deepest marine organisms known to humans are contaminated by plastics, according to a study published Wednesday.
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Phytoplankton are plant-like microscopic organisms that grow through photosynthesis, and they are prolific in Earth's oceans.
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Indeed, it's the kind of Borg-like collective behavior that can only emerge among super-social organisms.
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The trouble is, organisms develop resistance to gene drives, much like they eventually outwit pesticides and antibiotics.
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Others are less convinced that active-matter concepts explain behavior that organisms in nature actually engage in.
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Our companies could become living organisms, smarter and more capable than the sum of their individual parts.
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"I believe that Polish firms must create bigger organisms to better compete in the world," Jagiello said.
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Hijacking the brains of unsuspecting hosts is a thing that some organisms do, typically for reproductive purposes.
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These six organisms don't even come close to representing the sheer variability of wildlife our Earth holds.
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And landing the right instruments on the moon could potentially tell us if biological organisms are present.
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The structure of the soil has been altered, and any living organisms in it have been killed.
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A big part of that involves agriculture — hence the focus on climate change and genetically-modified organisms.
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The encrusting organisms mark the first stage of the food chain and attract a variety of fish.
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Then, navies nailed copper plates to the bottoms of warships to poison the larvae of sessile organisms.
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The beetle is so tiny that it is dwarfed by some unicellular organisms, which are usually microscopic.
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The organisms living there seemed to be expending significantly more energy than the marine snow was providing.
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But these tiny organisms can be fatal and kill an estimated 1.5 million people globally each year.
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But now, there's a desperate attempt afoot to save these incredible organisms from extinction: in vitro fertilization.
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But astronomers say it's our best bet to find another Earth, one that could host biological organisms.
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That being said, these biotechnologies could eventually be used to create artificial organisms and even designer humans.
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The micro-organisms thus pressed into service may be carefully chosen, and passed down through the generations.
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To show that this unique family of proteins worked, the researchers inserted the genes into other organisms.
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There are a number of possible environmental benefits or sustainability benefits by working directly with biological organisms.
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It cannot do sophisticated multiplex testing, in which several different organisms are detected in the same sample.
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In the last 20 years we have gone further by modifying the genetic programming of organisms directly.
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For instance, we have created micro-organisms to produce highly valued chemical compounds like insulin, butanol, etc.
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The animated project, Ocular, keeps the phantasmagoric aesthetic alive with vibrant flows of jelly-like alien organisms.
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This code can produce new pathways for enzymes to work together or for organisms to produce them.
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In living organisms, evolution is a multi-generational process where mutations in genes are dropped and added.
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Even there, with the beer, we are reminded that the diversity of genes makes living organisms strong.
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It engineers organisms with entirely new genetic codes—for example, using amino acids not found in nature.
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Genetics has revealed the intricate interconnections in the web of life and how all organisms are related.
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And it turns out, some of those organisms have been consuming the radioactive leftovers from nuclear tests.
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The heat from the lighter isn't enough to kill off all the organisms throughout the entire joint.
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Oakley and Ellis studied ten groups of organisms, including fireflies, octopuses, sharks and tiny crustaceans called ostracods.
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By bringing the cold, these incredible organisms are believed to create clouds and cause snow and rain.
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The resulting breeds would essentially be genetically-modified organisms and could disrupt or even collapse existing ecosystems.
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So a third area that YC is interested in is developing enzyme systems that don't involve organisms.
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In fruit flies, in mice, and in single-cell organisms (which can, like us, get jet lag).
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Most importantly, we have found that individual organisms are injured by radiation in a variety of ways.
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"Organisms just can't simultaneously work to find a way around three independent mechanisms of action," he said.
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But these crops—called GMOs, for "genetically modified organisms"—have also sparked heated protest around the world.
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Drug-resistant versions of organisms such as Staphylococcus aureus are increasing the risk of post-operative infection.
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Natural History Museums avoid even domesticated organisms as being too boring or too far removed from nature.
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For instance, companies are now using organisms like yeast to make complex chemicals, like flavorings and fragrances.
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Here are the finalists: Glowee is developing biological light systems using the natural properties bioluminescent marine organisms.
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"With time these organisms stepping stoned their way north, up to the Gulf of Aqaba," says Bellworthy.
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The big mystery that remains is why maternal inheritance occurs so consistently across organisms, Dr. Xue said.
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The 150-year-old surgical technique he used, parabiosis, involves exchanging the blood of two living organisms.
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"Now they're not even waiting for the ice to melt," said Dr. Arrigo said of algal organisms.
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Scientists call these organisms extremophiles, since they can thrive in Earth's coldest, warmest, and high-pressure environments.
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Testing of clinical and environmental samples is still underway to look for bacterial, viral and parasitic organisms.
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The biological sensors are different, though: they're filled with living organisms or tissues — fish cells, microfauna, etc.
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Physiology is a branch of biology that looks at the functions of living organisms and their parts.
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It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency.
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Could this be the key that unlocks how humans transform into other entities, organisms, and living things?
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Traditional evolutionary theory is based on a "selfish" model of individual organisms where lifespans are always maximized.
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Now, some researchers say the U.S. needs to do the same for future threats from engineered organisms.
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This comes despite acceptance of science on other issues like health care and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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Seoul bans the entry of unapproved GMOs, defined as living modified organisms (LMO) under bio safety regulations.
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These microscopic organisms were a telltale sign that ocean water had drowned the area at some point.
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"This is true for Homo sapiens but it is also true for all living organisms," Cloutier added.
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In addition, pesticides can unintentionally harm other organisms, and some have been linked to human health problems.
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But dead organisms were an easy resource, Dr. Droser said, and some animals began to take advantage.
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The most significant example of this occurs during an episode exploring public misunderstanding about genetically modified organisms.
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To the extent that I can explain this phenomenon, it involves tiny organisms, maybe bacteria or plankton.
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Subterranean diversity rivals that of the surface, with most underground organisms yet to be discovered or characterized.
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As scientists continue their studies, the organisms they find are challenging and expanding the tree of life.
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It would take relatively few engineered organisms to spread a new gene through much of a population.
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Rather than absorbing sunlight like plants or devouring other organisms like animals, fungi spew out powerful enzymes.
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The drawing illustrated his radical idea that, over time, organisms change to give rise to new species.
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They do not possess all the characteristics of a living organisms – so, no, you cannot 'kill' them.
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It's very difficult to do that with the organisms that have some bio tools in them now.
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And that could have implications for how we think about fat cells in other organisms, including ourselves.
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What traits must all organisms share — even those that might inhabit methane lakes or ice-locked oceans?
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UV sanitizing robots from Xenex are used in highly contagious infection rooms where virulent organisms are present.
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Her specialty is communities of organisms that thrive in conditions that seem extreme from a human standpoint.
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People worry about genetically modified organisms, and monosodium glutamate and, yes, artificial sweeteners because they sound scary.
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It also leaches aluminum from the soil, which can be toxic to both plants and aquatic organisms.
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Yellow corn is sought free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to be sourced from any optional origins.
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In fact, at about 10 centimeters long, it's one of the largest single-celled organisms on Earth.
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Monoclonal antibodies are proteins produced by B cells that bind to specific invader organisms and abnormal cells.
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Instead, soft-bodied organisms can be identified by the burrows they make and the molecules they deposit.
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"I hope this video shows people the beauty of these organisms while raising awareness of their decline."
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These drugs, engineered from living organisms, have led to new treatments for everything from arthritis to cancer.
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"Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies" by Geoffrey West
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For in truth, the humble house cat is one of the most stunning organisms on the planet.
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Micro-organisms exhausted the nutrients they needed to create oxygen, which knocked the Earth's atmosphere off-kilter.
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The scientists argued that the organisms were once mats of bacteria that grew in shallow coastal waters.
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Radiation exposure has caused genetic damage and increased mutation rates in many organisms in the Chernobyl region.
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Echoing his personal experience, his research began to explore questions of adaptation—how organisms survive hostile environments.
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Why it matters: Researchers are studying which organisms thrive amid the changes — and what could be lost.
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Beneath the muddy sea floor exists a menagerie of squirming organisms living and dying in the muck.
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Autophagy also breaks down damaged proteins and organelles, which protect against the negative effects of organisms' aging.
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Did you get past the plateau where you said you felt like the organisms weren't evolving that much?
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Then you're secretly in love with plankton, tiny marine organisms that float around at the mercy of currents.
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Given the stresses of existing on this turbulent spinning orb, some organisms must adapt in literally dazzling ways.
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Other types of organisms, from fish and birds to wolves and sheep, experience their share of introgression, too.
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Image: Miri TrainicOur oceans are brimming with microscopic phytoplankton—plant-like organisms that contribute significantly to marine diversity.
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The Gabonese shale deposits have been a treasure trove, also containing fossils of the oldest-known multicellular organisms.
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