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Organism - Biotic entity capable of reproduction or replication; vertebrate or invertebrate animals, plants and micro-organisms [ISPM Pub. No. 3, 1996][FAO Glossary]

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Team Tracks Antibiotic Resistance From Swine Farms To Groundwater  -  21 Aug 2007
Science Daily (press release)...“If the genes are there, potentially they can get into the right organism at the right time and confer resistance to an antibiotic that’s being used to

Galway can drink tap water at last  -  21 Aug 2007
Irish Health,This was caused by the micro-organism cryptosporidium, which contaminated water supplies from a major treatment plant. Business and tourism spokesmen gave a

Bronson warns about 'sign-over' termite contracts  -  21 Aug 2007
Orlando Sentinel,...must obtain written consent in letter form that it is the property owner's desire to have a second contract warranty for the same wood-destroying organism.

A Prediction for Artificial Life  -  21 Aug 2007
Discovery Institute,For example, "artificial" will cover any human manipulation of an existing organism -- so replacing a few genes or enzymes in an already-living cell will

Study: Pectin kills prostate cancer cells  -  21 Aug 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full article Tumor suppressor gene -- A tumor suppressor gene is a gene that reduces the probability that a cell in a multicellular organism will turn into

Collagen + Algae + Vitamin E = “COLVITAâ€?  -  21 Aug 2007
PR UrgentWell, chains of human collagen are built of 20 amino acids, both these produced by the organism itself and supplied from food.

Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics  -  21 Aug 2007
Washington Post,He also describes how a 1993 outbreak of diarrhea in Milwaukee was caused by cryptosporidium, an organism experts insisted could not be present.

SCREEN TEST  -  21 Aug 2007
Fort Worth Star Telegram,As an epidemiologist, he is infected while investigating the slimy organism that enters our world on debris from a space shuttle that burns up on re-entry,

Fujitsu Laptop with Biodegradable Chassis  -  21 Aug 2007
PC WorldFor example when the starch is harvested from corn, potatoes or wheat, a micro organism transforms it into lactic acid, which is then chemically treated to

New Cockayne syndrome discovery  -  21 Aug 2007
News-Medical.net,The lack of rRNAs eventually leads to a standstill of protein synthesis in the cell - the most dramatic of imaginable consequences for an organism.

Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Bank must be open on standby lending  -  21 Aug 2007
Independent,The financial system is nowadays a global organism, and no single nation can remain immune to its mood swings. We are already seeing casualties among London

Mozambique: Country Sets an Example of Treatment to Refugees  -  21 Aug 2007
AllAfrica.com,...'All these cases are not the responsibility of UNHCR, because this organism is only to deal with people who, for reasons related to lack of security,

Study: Women like pink, men like blue  -  21 Aug 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full article Color vision -- Color vision is the capacity of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelength (or frequency) of the

Smoked salmon recalled in Florida  -  21 Aug 2007
United Press InternationalThe organism poses a potential health rise for pregnant women, young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems.

Plants provide potent antimicrobial extracts  -  21 Aug 2007
FoodProductionDaily.com,...into which we incorporated these natural substances have the potential to affect a much broader spectrum of microorganisms than organism-specific drugs.

Cattle bloat and its costs are researched  -  21 Aug 2007
Science Daily (press release)The giardia organism inhabits the digestinal tract of a wide ... > full article Zone diet -- The Zone diet is a diet popularized in books by Barry Sears.

Is There Anything Good About Men? And Other Tricky Questions  -  21 Aug 2007
New York Times,But taking chances like that would be stupid, from the perspective of a biological organism seeking to reproduce. They might drown or be killed by savages

Take now, pay later  -  21 Aug 2007
Guardian Unlimited,If you are haphazard about dosage regimes and you don't completely eradicate the germ concerned, a resistant organism is more likely to develop," says Dr

Finding new diseases for known cures  -  21 Aug 2007
Toronto Star,..."Once the pathogen-specific targets are identified inside the organism, then we'll use this in silico approach to come up with a first line of defence in a

Chester-East Lincoln teacher dies of rare brain disorder  -  21 Aug 2007
Bloomington Pantagraph,Researchers believe that an unusual virus or another organism causes the disease, the neurological institute said. The disease has a long incubation period,

Genetic phonetics could be the trick to sounding out DNA’s meaning  -  Aug 20, 2007
TechJournal South,In a world where science’s ability to transcribe an organism’s genetic code is growing faster every day, the technique could offer much needed efficiency in

Bacteria Mutate Much More Than Previously Thought  -  Aug 18, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Science Daily — Portuguese scientists show that in bacteria the rate of beneficial mutations – those that increase the capacity of an organism to survive in

Genetic Phonetics Could Be The Trick To Sounding Out DNA's Meaning  -  Aug 17, 2007
Science Daily (press release)In a world where science’s ability to transcribe an organism’s genetic code is growing faster every day, the technique could offer much needed efficiency in

Genetically modified organism debate continues  -  Aug 15, 2007
Auckland stuff.co.nz,A change of approach by the Rodney District Council has put the 'genetic modification-free Rodney ball' in the Auckland Regional Council's court.

African GM crop is maize virus resistant  -  Aug 16, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full article Genetically modified organism -- A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using techniques

WR: Mysteries of the Organism  -  Aug 8, 2007
DVDTimes.co.uk,Dusan Makavejev’s WR: Mysteries of the Organism is not an easy film to summarise. About half its running time is actuality footage, including interviews

SunEthanol Pins Hope on Microbe Technology  -  Aug 14, 2007
Red Herring,...“It’s naturally occurring so it’s going to have that stability of an organism that’s naturally occurring, as opposed to one that’s genetically engineered,�

Memory: a glossary of terms  -  Aug 20, 2007
Los Angeles Times,Genes: Strings of amino acids that make up an organism's genome, a sort of blueprint from which the organism is built. Individual genes are strings of amino

'The Invasion' is both confusing and breath-catching  -  Aug 17, 2007
SouthCoastToday.com,As an epidemiologist, the ex is infected while investigating the slimy organism that enters our world on debris from a space shuttle that burns up on

Bugs on Bugs  -  Aug 16, 2007
PhysOrg.com,The finding challenges the conventional wisdom that even harmless bacteria — and the immune response they provoke — suck up the energy of the host organism

Immunity In Social Amoeba Suggests Ancient Beginnings  -  Aug 2, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Dictyostelium discoideum usually exists as a single-celled organism. However, when stressed by starvation, the single cells band together to form a slug

Bush Apparently Had Lyme Disease  -  Aug 8, 2007
Washington Post,While the Lyme organism Borrelia burgdorferi can sometimes be isolated in the skin or bloodstream -- and antibodies to it can also eventually be detected in

'The Invasion': Our Worlds  -  Aug 17, 2007
PopMatters,For of course, Tucker spews goo in her face, infecting her with the “highly resilient organism� that will change her into one of them as soon as she falls

Bacteria May Not Hasten Death  -  Aug 8, 2007
Science Daily (press release)..."It seemed like it was dogma that if the organism has to spend energy doing something, it should shorten the animal's life," said co-author and USC

Ullapool fury over third week of water misery  -  Aug 17, 2007
Scottish Provincial Press Ltd.,The organism can cause chronic diarrhoea, sickness and abdominal pain. One resident who contacted the Ross-shire Journal claimed some people had been

Bacteria mutate much more than thought  -  Aug 14, 2007
innovations report,And mutations are the raw material of evolution, in the sense that they are the source of new characteristics which equip the adapted organism with a bigger

The best is the enemy of the good  -  Aug 10, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),In very large populations of an asexual organism like E. coli, adaptive evolution is a game of winner takes all. When one organism develops a mutation that

'The Invasion'  -  Aug 16, 2007
calendarlive.com,The plot proper starts with the mysterious crash of a space shuttle, complete with wreckage contaminated by a relentless organism, that causes one scientist

TB vaccine shows promise  -  Aug 1, 2007
Canada.com,The increasing resistance of the TB organism to drug treatments makes creation of a truly effective vaccine even more crucial, experts say.

The Invasion  -  Aug 16, 2007
Premiere Magazine,...("they" being the emotionless alien-possessed zombies created by an outer-space organism), in this picture it's only a half-hour in before the first

Memory: a glossary of terms  -  Aug 19, 2007
Los Angeles Times,Genes: Strings of amino acids that make up an organism's genome, a sort of blueprint from which the organism is built. Each gene contains instructions for

Dominican Red Cross is again the scene of pushin ’n shovin’  -  Aug 16, 2007
Dominican Today,Pushing, kicking and shoving by Dominican Red Cross volunteers marked the assembly’s effort to elect that organism’s National Council, in which Ligia

ISU old-school scientist Kritsky is world-renowned parasistologist  -  Aug 20, 2007
Idaho State University,He contacted me and to help him out, I put out a paper on this species and named the organism so he could accurately report on the ecology of this fish.

Fossils Older Than Dinosaurs Reveal Pattern Of Early Animal ...  -  Jul 26, 2007
Science Daily (press release)According to this idea, internal processes in the organism were the key factors. Various developmental processes interact with one another to control the

Swimmer's Itch Reported At Cherry Creek State Park  -  Aug 15, 2007
cbs4denver.com,Swimmers itch is caused by a microscopic organism in the water. It comes from birds or small mammals. The organism enters the swimmer's skin,

Ancient Protein Tells a Story of Changing Functions  -  Aug 20, 2007
New York Times,The two mutations that reinforced the protein did not directly help the organism. So natural selection did not particularly favor them.

Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology  -  Aug 20, 2007
EurekAlert (press release),Due to the organism’s ability to live inside cells, emerging strains are increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Currently, forty to sixty percent of

Boy Contracts Rare Illness From Lake LBJ  -  Aug 13, 2007
CBS 42,It is a tiny organism that you can't see with the human eye. Health experts say it commonly lives in most non-chlorinated water above 40-degrees,

Sun-Swilling, Heat-Resistant Extremophile Discovered in Yellowstone  -  Jul 27, 2007
Scientific American..."We found evidence for the organism by metagenomics," Bryant adds. "We validated that suggestion by sequencing a large fragment of DNA from the genome of

Blue turns to orange  -  Aug 14, 2007
Village Voice.com.au,Last week, the council told the Courier that staff had inspected the creek and identified the source of the strange colour as a naturally occurring organism




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