Bacteria have been around for 3 billion years--simple, single-cell organisms supremely adapted to survive in a harsh environment.
Without these single-cell organisms we would not, for example, have an atmosphere that supports human life or digest food efficiently.
Scientists have found single-cell archaea bacteria growing at temperatures as high as 234 degrees Fahrenheit at ocean vents on Earth.
Inspired by amoeba-like single-cell organisms, WSL is a propulsion system that enables robots to squeeze through gaps smaller than its regular dimensions.
Craig Venter, who mapped the genome back in 1995, talked about his latest project: ushering in the "Jurassic Park" era of combinatorial genomics, where scientists will create life by typing out DNA. He predicts his team will be able to produce a single-cell eurkaryote--and eventually gasoline--in the lab from cellular building blocks within ten years.
Authorities are investigating the suicide of condemned inmate James Lee Crummel and declined to provide the circumstances of the hanging, which happened Sunday afternoon in the rear of his single-occupant cell, said Lt.
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The voltage drop was consistent with the charge of a single cell on the eight-cell battery, she said.
In "Spore, " players make choices that evolve a creature from single cell--you cover the first 20 million years pretty quickly--to planet-hopping spaceship pilot, all with Pixar-quality cartoon brilliance of critters and landscape.
Correcting malfunctioning genes could perhaps cure diseases linked to a single gene, such as sickle-cell anemia.
The Threat Finance Cell also has almost single-handedly demonstrated the degree to which the American-led war in Afghanistan is compromised by connections among the Taliban, drug traffickers, and Afghan officials.
He and his colleagues have also built several models of Frankencamera, using bits of kit found in commercially available devices both low-end, like inexpensive cell phones, and high-end, such as pricey single-lens reflex cameras.
In the 1950s Anthony Allison, a British biochemist, observed that Africans who carry a single copy of the genetic mutation that causes sickle-cell anaemia are protected against malaria.
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But ABC News reports that Meagan Broussard, a 26-year-old single mother from Texas, provided them with dozens of photos, e-mails, Facebook messages and cell phone call logs related to her relationship with Weiner.
The haematopoietic stem cell transplant unit, with 10 single en-suite rooms, has been built in the hospital's former Bracken ward.
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The HIV retrovirus, in particular, is a single-stranded RNA virus that duplicates itself in a host cell by converting its genetic code into double-stranded DNA that is then inserted into the host cell.
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The genetics of mitochondria are most peculiar: several different strains of mitochondria, each with its own slightly different genome, can co-exist in a single body, or even in a single cell.
He is working with Quake to create a thumb-size chip that can automatically catalog the genes and proteins inside a single stem cell.
The message itself is copied into a single-stranded messenger molecule which carries it to the protein-making parts of the cell, where it is translated.
However, Sprint recently announced a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar network upgrade that will replace many existing cell sites with a single cell radio that can be used for its voice and broadband services and that can be used either for WiMAX or LTE.
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Just two years earlier he was sitting in a jail cell, barely halfway through a 14-year sentence meted out for a single drug offense committed in 2000.
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