organism
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Researchers in Tristan Wagner's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen wanted to understand how this organism performs nitrogen fixation under such extreme conditions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
"If we can understand those processes, it could help us build synthetic systems that mimic the speed and power of this single-celled organism."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
A tiny aquatic organism made of just one cell can compress its body to one quarter of its original length in under five milliseconds, hundreds of times faster than a person can blink.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Runners up in the competition included videos of a roundworm encountering a single-celled organism and microscopic jellyfish larvae suspended in droplets of water.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It is hard to imagine a solitary, independent, existentialist minnow, recognizable for himself alone; minnows in a school behave like interchangeable, identical parts of an organism.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Oaks support a wide range of organisms, anchoring entire ecosystems, and also serve the vital task of storing carbon on a warming planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
In the future, researchers could potentially explore these organisms as biological systems for converting gases into useful products, including methane and ammonia, with green hydrogen serving as an energy source.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Higher-order organisms have developed a way of triaging that information, selecting what is relevant to our safety and our survival, and making instant decisions about how to allocate our resources and our attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
To analyze these data, the researchers developed a bioinformatic method based on 'reverse ecology,' an approach that uses genomic information to infer how organisms have adapted to particular environments.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Physiologists concentrate, instead, on the mechanisms by which these structures and parts interact to enable the functions of living organisms; they concern themselves with how things work.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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