organism

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Grace is sent into space on a one-way mission to stop the spread of an energy-consuming organism called Astrophage, which threatens to create a new Ice Age on Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"Molecular markers are essential, but they capture only slices of biology. With behavior, you see the whole organism, continuously and non-invasively."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

She added that the drugs did not provide effective coverage against a Gram-positive organism, which was the most likely pathogen causing the infection.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

"While the last universal common ancestor is the most ancient organism we can study with evolutionary methods," said Goldman, "some of the genes in its genome were much older."

From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026

Then came the mechanism by which an organism determines where these structures are to be placed: front or back, left or right, above or below.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee