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Organism: - Any form of animal or plant life.
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Enjoy beer - and life will be good  -  04 Aug 2008
ForUm,In addition, the sugar level in blood goes down and carcinogenic matters are removed from organism that reduces the risk of cancer diseases considerably.

TMO introduces process demonstration unit  -  04 Aug 2008
Ethanol Producer Magazine,...â€œThe reason the organism is particularly useful is that it has a very broad appetite,â€? said TMO Renewables Chief Executive Officer Hamish Curran.

Investigation of ESR meningitis infection case  -  04 Aug 2008
Scoop.co.nz (press release),The fifth case was similar to the epidemic strain but couldn't be confirmed as the same organism that infected Dr Adu-Bobie â€¢ No evidence could be found to

The Dirt on Mars Phoenix Lander Contamination  -  04 Aug 2008
Wired News...(Since water is ubiquitous in the chemistry of life on Earth, adding it to just about any Earthly organism gets some sort of rise; the same, we hope,

Two Stanford Faculty Will Benefit from Keck Awards  -  04 Aug 2008
MarketWatch...in understanding how interactions between these proteins and DNA influence genes, turning them on or off at various times during an organism's life.

Russians in need of an energy adjustment turn to the pyramid  -  04 Aug 2008
Los Angeles Times,...pyramid shape on things," "A brief description of the effect of the pyramid shape on the organism," and "The general possibility of the use of pyramids.

A Java-based tool for the design of classification microarrays  -  04 Aug 2008
7thSpace Interactive (press release),For these cases, mixed microarrays, which are composed of DNA from more than one organism, are more effective than conventional microarrays composed of DNA

Can the iPhone Rule Gaming?  -  04 Aug 2008
TIMEA special version of Will Wright's Spore, an evolution game in which players grow a single cell into a complex organism, will be released for the iPhone on

Advocates promoting benefits of breastfeeding for moms, children  -  04 Aug 2008
Hays Daily News,Since breastmilk is produced by the mother's body, it is a living organism and changes to meet the child's needs, said Sandy Aldrich, La Leche League leader

Compare and contrast  -  04 Aug 2008
separationsNOW.com (subscription),Sequencing an organism's DNA is only the first step in trying to understand its genome. Next, the long string of DNA bases has to be parcelled up into

Can we make software that comes to life?  -  04 Aug 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,On January 3 1990, he started with a program some 80 instructions long, Tierra's equivalent of a single-celled sexless organism, analogous to the entities

Susie Rushton: Know your London tourist  -  04 Aug 2008
Independent,The Thing: The Franco-Italian school tour group is an organism only 4'9" in height and possessed of a mass that can contract to fit in the smallest lift but

Process By Which All Blood Cells Originate Is Essentially The Same ...  -  04 Aug 2008
Science Daily (press release)...the relationships between the rate of some biological variables (for example the number of cell divisions per time) and the organismâ€™s body mass.

Science's awesome challenge: Creating artificial life  -  04 Aug 2008
McClatchy Washington Bureau,They've already accomplished some steps needed to construct a simple, single-celled organism that's capable of evolving and reproducing itself â€” basic

New HIV Treatment Guidelines Issued  -  04 Aug 2008
Medscape (subscription)..."HIV is a humbling organism," he began. "You need multispecialty expertise to take care of complex individuals. You still need the HIV specialist to

How oil futures trading helps us all  -  04 Aug 2008
MoneyWeek (subscription),Because they have only a superficial grasp of this complex "organism" and how it coordinates interactions among billions of Homo sapiens spread across the

Waste not, want not  -  04 Aug 2008
Farming UK,Soil conditioning, improved soil structure, mulch, micro-organism growth promotion and weed suppression are just some of the many outcomes of this system.

Disease a threat to kitties here  -  04 Aug 2008
Elk Valley Times,Cytauxzoon felis infection, also referred to as C. felis by veterinarians, is a disease caused by a microscopic organism â€“ protozoan parasite â€“ which is a

The errors of conscience  -  04 Aug 2008
Daily News & Analysis,Therefore all the life that has been gathered into an organism must be the life of God; and since we can find no place for a boundary-line between life and

DNA barcoding takes on the world  -  04 Aug 2008
KOAA,...plant or other organism to be identified so biodiversity can be regulated and protected (thus helping to enforce bans on exporting rare cats,

The Reel Deal  -  04 Aug 2008
Westside Today,Unbeknownst to our hero, his charge, a genetically altered beauty, is carrying a passenger of her own â€“ a mysterious organism that has the power to become

Increase of VRE at Sligo hospital  -  Aug 1, 2008
Belfast Telegraph,The micro-organism VRE gets into open wounds and skin sores and can cause infections. In a statement, the hospital says it believes that the micro-organism

Carbon dating and the Jersey case  -  Jul 31, 2008
BBC News,But when an organism dies, it stops absorbing C14 and the C14 that is already inside it begins to disappear. Scientists can use this fact to measure how

Algae blooms also a threat to human health  -  Aug 1, 2008
Lower Hudson Journal news,In 2005, the toxic organism Alexandrium fundyense forced the closure of New England shellfish beds. It was the most intense bloom since 1972.

Search this blog  -  Aug 3, 2008
ScienceBlogsIt looks like chaos, but the protein has only certain effects, although this may vary from cell to cell, from organism to organism. What's going on?

Real Madrid to launch radio station  -  Jul 28, 2008
Xinhua,..."Real Madrid is not just a sporting entity, it is a complex organism that is going to have this new point of union where everyone can get the news about

ARTIC ICE MELTDOWN WILL LEAD TO A GLOBAL FREEZE  -  Jul 31, 2008
OpEdNews,But the lymphatic system of this living organism, Planet Earth, is the deep ocean current conveyor belt which stabilizes the climate throughout the world.

Hospital C. diff reporting will help Ont. better deal with disease ...  -  Jul 24, 2008
The Canadian Press,But more importantly is to control the spread of the organism as much as we humanly can within health-care settings." C. difficile reporting is the first

Belief, Hope and Anna  -  Jul 31, 2008
Kommersant,Doctors say that congenital diseases are connected with â€œbreakagesâ€? in the organism at the pre-natal stage, and they can be caused by anything: stresses,

Certain Parasites Alter Behavior of Their Infected Hosts  -  Jul 31, 2008
Natural News.com,Because rabies is spread when the saliva of an infected organism enters the blood of another organism, this is how the virus ensures its reproduction.

Sex And Lifespan Linked In Worms  -  Jul 23, 2008
Science Daily (press release)Where scientists once focused on DNA and proteins as the major players in an organism's biology, they are now realizing that smaller, but more structurally

Building Better Biofuels  -  Jul 28, 2008
Biomass Magazine,The question wasnâ€™t spurred by fanciful musing but by new techniques enabling scientists to customize an organismâ€™s biological processes to produce novel

Immunization is a top priority  -  Jul 31, 2008
Daily News - Galveston County,In that perfect world, the infectious organism that causes a disease has nowhere to go. Now imagine lower immunizations rates â€” say 80 percent.

Public Hearing On GM Horse Flu Vaccine  -  Jul 30, 2008
Scoop.co.nz (press release),The application is the first for a conditional release of a GM organism in New Zealand. Equine influenza (EI) caused major disruption to the Australian

Dual-use Sexual Attraction And Population-control Chemicals Found ...  -  Jul 31, 2008
Science Daily (press release)Some chemicals trigger the various stages of an organism's development, and still others are used to attract members of the opposite sex.

CCI: Morrison & Chropra on the Spirit of the Superhero  -  Jul 29, 2008
Comic Book Resources,..."There's one organism on this planet. Everything that's in this room has been here for billions of years. Imagine all the bad stuff you've been told--we're

Dog owners are warned of deadly parasite's arrival  -  Jul 6, 2008
Scotsman,Experts believe the organism Angiostronglyus vasorum, also known as "French heartworm", could be moving north because of climate change.

Look on the bright side of microbial life  -  Jul 23, 2008
TheChronicleHerald.ca,Bacteria are just one kind of microbe, a term that refers to any microscopic organism, including viruses, fungi, plankton and algae â€“ the focus of my

Cilantro recalled due to salmonella fears  -  Jul 31, 2008
GlobalTV,Salmonella is an organism that can cause serious or sometimes fatal infections in children or the frail and elderly. The recall followed a routine sampling

Cilantro Recalled from Foodservice Marketplace for Possible ...  -  Jul 30, 2008
Business Wire (press release),In rare circumstance, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial

World's smallest snake discovered  -  Aug 3, 2008
BBC News,Dr Hedges explained the difficulty in defining a new species when the organism is so small. "Differences in small animals are much more subtle and so are

Back to the future  -  Jul 28, 2008
Deccan Herald,Synthetic biology is about putting together entirely different genetic circuits in one organism to perform desired functions. Creating life forms would

Learned this week  -  Jul 12, 2008
Vancouver Sun,Previous research was based on databases of marine invertebrate fossils that recorded only the first occurrence of an organism and the last occurrence of

Enjoy your oysters, mussels and clams  -  Aug 3, 2008
Times Online,The type of organism that is most likely to be carried by any type of shellfish varies. Salmonella is often found, for example, in molluscs,

Unlock Your Creativity in 10 Minutes a Day  -  Jul 16, 2008
TheStreet.comAristotle observed that every living organism has an inner force, a vitality that propels that organism to be fulfilled. He called that state of being

Scientists gather in Halifax to unravel mystery microbes  -  Jul 19, 2008
TheChronicleHerald.ca,..."If you go back in your evolutionary tree 650 million years, your ancestor at that point will be a little single-cell organism," he said.

Allahabad varsity patent to help cure skin disease  -  Jul 22, 2008
Thaindian.com,Lucknow, July 22 (IANS) The Allahabad University has claimed to have got its first independent patent for a process to culture a fungal organism that would

Three strikes against consumers  -  Aug 3, 2008
Tehran Times,...from despair to hope and to turn the financial sector, now embattled and disorganized, back into the functioning organism the economy needs so badly.

Florida's State Tree Is Under Attack  -  Jul 26, 2008
Orlando Sentinel,A number of years ago the coconut palms were attached by a bacteria-like organism known as a phytoplasma and the trees were about eliminated.

Potential New Drug Target To Fight Tuberculosis Identified  -  Jul 31, 2008
Science Daily (press release)The experiment also broke new ground because the researchers were able to accurately gauge the bacterium's internal pH with the organism lying inside a host

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