One of the landers contained a small reactor designed to encourage the growth of micro-organisms.
The creation of new organisms for agriculture and medicine could have unforeseen ecological side-effects, he suggests.
Modern microbiology has determined that tiny organisms can derive energy by feeding on rocks.
It shows that this composer could use the same basic materials to build wildly different organisms.
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That led him to work with Kashefi, whose research focuses micro organisms, specifically metal-reducing organisms.
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Life sciences include such areas as biology, medicine, and ecology which study living organisms.
Craig Venter, are taking a more far-out approach: building highly efficient organisms from scratch.
This means no artificial fertilizers, chemical pesticides, herbicides, plant growth regulators or genetically modified organisms.
We expect people to drive half the living organisms to extinction over our lifetimes.
Because 13C is heavier, organisms tend to absorb it less readily than they do 12C.
All the hip-cool scientists these days are enslaving living organisms to do their bidding.
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The difference is that plastics with their accumulated contaminant load are directly ingestible by organisms.
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This means that, statistically, marine organisms are of greater commercial interest than terrestrial ones.
An analysis of Patent Office databases reveals that several organisms have been used for commercial purposes.
Nicotinic receptors exist in a wide range of organisms, from sea slugs to mammals.
She said better systems were required to monitor the impact of GM organisms in the environment.
Ocean organisms are said to hold the promise of cures for an array of diseases.
And, also unlike conventional plastics, they are eminently digestible (at least to micro-organisms) after use.
Microscopic algae, the earliest living organisms, drew carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and expelled oxygen.
Plankton found in the estuaries nourish organisms all the way up the food chain.
It eliminates organisms from the gene pool by preventing them from finding a mate.
Biological organisms absorb and store radioactive isotopes incorporated in the tissues that make up the organisms.
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If tissue-culture technology, a predecessor to genetically modifying organisms, is any indicator, the payoff for Africa could be huge.
There remains, moreover, a potential for product liability in pediatric vaccines and the technical difficulties in growing living organisms.
In a normal body, infectious organisms are met by a battalion of cells known as lymphocytes.
Disease-causing organisms such as staphylococcus aureus and pneumonia-causing bacteria have been detected in paper bills.
Phytoplankton -- microscopic organisms that congregate near the ocean surface - absorb atmospheric CO2 through photosynthesis.
However when living organisms are involved, what was once known may no longer be true.
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These are highly complicated pieces of equipment almost as complicated as living organisms.
Organisms that treat threats as more urgent than opportunities have a better chance to survive and reproduce.
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