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The research into unique microbes uncovered the first known organisms to simultaneously catalyze aerobic and anaerobic metabolism.
Rethinking model organisms: Looking toward unstudied microbes and communities. It is also worth reconsidering what a model even is. It may be an individual organism, like E. coli, ...
An Incredible Organism Is Evolving at Lightning Speed—Faster Than We Ever Imagined Possible Rip up the old rules of biology. By Darren Orf Published: Sep 18, 2024 10:00 AM EDT ...
Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the ...
A thermophile is a type of extremophile that lives in extremely hot environments. In many cases, the temperatures here can exceed 122°F (50°C), but at the far end of the scale, may be as hot as 252°F ...
Osmophile: Organisms Living With Extreme Levels of Sugar. Radioresistants: Organisms Living With Extreme Radiation. ... Methanopyrus kandleri is a thermophile, which means it lives at extreme ...
Caenorhabditis elegans is a species of nematode worm and is frequently chosen as a model organism to study human diseases. Image Credits: Heiti Paves / Shutterstock.com While not as sophisticated ...
So what's the maximum number of parents an organism can have? Some animals can have up to three genetic parents, plants can have at least three, and bacteria can have multitudes.
An ecosystem is maintained by organisms' interactions with their environment and each other through various relationships. Predator-prey, symbiotic relationships, competition, and parasitism are ...
Wow: Geneticists Created an Organism Immune to All Viruses. Sure could've used this a few years ago. By Jackie Appel Published: May 04, 2023 4:00 PM EDT. MR.Cole_Photographer.
Virovore: Scientists Discover An Organism That Eats Viruses The research was carried out by a team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and it discovered virus-eating microscopic organisms.
An organism metabolizes at many scales - from cells and organs to bodies and ecologies. Cities similarly thrive on multiple levels of frameworks, where material composition has as much an impact ...