colonizing

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"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

How would colonizing Mars alter us psychologically and physiologically?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Whatever the timing and pricing turn out to be, the IPO of an Elon Musk company with aspirations of colonizing Mars will certainly be something to follow this year.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Tessa sees it as a mission, one of dozens that involve the company colonizing planets and stripping their resources, justifying that plunder as necessary to benefit mankind.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2025

If my organelles are really symbiotic bacteria, colonizing me, what’s to prevent them from catching a virus, or if they have such a thing as lysogeny, from conveying a phage to other organelles?

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas