organism
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Then about 1.25 billion years ago, one of these photosynthesizing bacteria partnered with another one-celled organism to create green algae, one lineage of which became the ancestor of all plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
This organism, also nicknamed "sea vomit", is particularly harmful to coastal wildlife and economies.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The team also demonstrated that the device could successfully activate nerves in vivo, meaning within a living organism rather than only in an isolated laboratory setting.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
A routine experiment involving a microscopic organism from a freshwater pond led scientists to an extraordinary genetic discovery.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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The findings could help scientists better understand the global carbon cycle, which describes how carbon moves between the atmosphere, living organisms, oceans, and land.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
"These immune cells unleash chemical warfare against a pathogen, and organisms have evolved an elegant way of protecting healthy cells at the same time."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Efforts to refine the lacklustre Cali Fund -- a UN mechanism for sharing profits from corporations that use genetic data from plants and other organisms -- have also proved difficult.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
For Domnauer, the hidden diversity found in these collections is a reminder that many species and potentially important biological characteristics remain undiscovered, even among organisms that scientists have already collected.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
The idea that illness was caused by microscopic organisms, such as bacteria and viruses, was not known at the time.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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