organisms

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On some worlds, gases produced by living organisms may be removed or masked by other processes, making them much harder to detect.

From Science Daily • Jun. 30, 2026

Viruses have threatened living organisms throughout evolutionary history.

From Science Daily • Jun. 30, 2026

"These ecosystems are very dynamic, and the algal composition is changing really quickly," she says, adding that the pool should be monitored constantly "to know which organisms are living there".

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

Working evenings at the Harlem Hospital, he invented a method for characterizing bacterial organisms in patients with pneumonia, publishing his first paper at the age of 21.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

The toxins of diphtheria bacilli and streptococci are produced when the organisms have been infected by bacteriophage; it is the virus that provides the code for toxin.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas