organisms

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Rather than steadily marching toward a perfect fit between organisms and their environments, populations may often be stuck in pursuit of conditions that keep changing.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

A BLA is a formal request to market and distribute a medical product derived from living organisms across state lines.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

It supports aquatic organisms, helps sustain biodiversity, and influences important biogeochemical processes.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

For a bucket of gravel it’s tedious, for minerals it’s difficult, and for living organisms it’s surely impossible.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

For Morgan, the principal mystery of organismal biology was not the gene but genesis: How did “units of heredity” enable the formation of animals and maintain the functions of organs and organisms?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee