organisms

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The team also plans to investigate why organisms take so long to fully adapt even when an environment remains constant.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

Frydman's lab has spent years studying how cells maintain proteostasis in simpler organisms such as yeast and roundworms.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

In aging organisms, changes in mRNA levels often stop matching changes in protein levels, even though mRNA carries the instructions needed to build proteins.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

For a bucket of gravel it’s tedious, for minerals it’s difficult, and for living organisms it’s surely impossible.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Then, in the late 1890s, two Germans, Friedrich Löffler and Paul Frosch, discovered other disease-causing organisms even tinier than bacteria, called viruses.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy