News tagged with living organism

Donation opens new opportunities for more effective diabetes treatment

The Swedish medical university, Karolinska Institutet, has received a grant of 1.6 million Euro from the Stichting af Jochnick Foundation for research into the fundamental causes of diabetes. The grant will make it possible ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stop taking steroids: Kidney transplant recipients may not need long-term prednisone

Rapid discontinuation of the immunosuppressive steroid prednisone after a kidney transplant can help prevent serious side effects, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American So ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists map one of life's molecular mysteries

All living organisms are made up of cells, behind these intricate life forms lie complex cellular processes that allow our bodies to function. Researchers working on protein secretion — a fundamental process in biology ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Magnetically-levitated flies offer clues to future of life in space (w/ video)

Using powerful magnets to levitate fruit flies can provide vital clues to how biological organisms are affected by weightless conditions in space, researchers at The University of Nottingham say.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microbe metabolism: For the smallest organisms, size determines how microbes spend energy

Every living organism balances a budget of sorts — by allocating energy to various parts of its body to fuel essential life processes. Throughout its lifetime, an organism may rebalance this budget to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A radar for ADAR: Altered gene tracks RNA editing in neurons

To track what they can't see, pilots look to the green glow of the radar screen. Now biologists monitoring gene expression, individual variation, and disease have a glowing green indicator of their own: Brown ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chilean twins in delicate condition post-surgery

(AP) -- Conjoined twin girls who were separated in a 20-hour operation were in critical condition on Friday and one was in danger of dying, according to the director of the Chilean hospital where they are ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Visualization of DNA synthesis in vivo

Researchers of the University of Zurich have discovered a new substance for labeling and visualization of DNA synthesis in whole animals. Applications for this technique include identifying the sites of virus ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oxidative stress: Less harmful than suspected?

Arterial calcification and coronary heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, cancer and even the aging process itself are suspected to be partially caused or accelerated ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Feasibility of using mycoherbicides to control illicit drug crops is uncertain

The effectiveness of using specific fungi as mycoherbicides to combat illicit drug crops remains questionable due to the lack of quality, in-depth research, says a new report from the National Research Council.

Biology / Other

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Researchers engineer blood stem cells to fight melanoma

Researchers from UCLA's cancer and stem cell centers have demonstrated for the first time that blood stem cells can be engineered to create cancer-killing T-cells that seek out and attack a human melanoma. The researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis dies in Mass.

Evolutionary biologist, author and National Medal of Science winner Lynn Margulis (MAR'-guh-liss) has died.

Biology / Other

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA launching `dream machine' to explore Mars

As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, NASA's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Enzymatic synthesis of pyrrolysine, the mysterious 22nd amino acid

With few exceptions, all known proteins are built up from only twenty amino acids. 25 years ago scientists discovered a 21st amino acid, selenocysteine and ten years ago a 22nd, the pyrrolysine. However, how the cell produces ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Creation of the largest human-designed protein boosts protein engineering efforts

(PhysOrg.com) -- If Guinness World Records had a category for the largest human-designed protein, then a team of Vanderbilt chemists would have just claimed it.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Life

Life on Earth:

Life (cf. biota) is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have self-sustaining biological processes ("alive," "living"), from those which do not —either because such functions have ceased (death), or else because they lack such functions and are classified as "inanimate."

In biology, the science that studies living organisms, "life" is the condition which distinguishes active organisms from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, functional activity and the continual change preceding death. A diverse array of living organisms (life forms) can be found in the biosphere on Earth, and properties common to these organisms—plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria — are a carbon- and water-based cellular form with complex organization and heritable genetic information. Living organisms undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations. More complex living organisms can communicate through various means.

In philosophy and religion, the conception and nature of life varies, and offer interpretations in the frameworks of existence and consciousness, and touch on many other related issues, such as, ontology, value, life stance, purpose, conceptions of God, the soul and the afterlife.

For more information about Life, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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