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Humans may soon be able to design and "print" synthetic organisms using the biological equivalent of a 3D printer, a leading scientist has predicted.
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Manipulation might be responsible for the evolutionary origins of some helpful or altruistic behaviour, a new study has revealed.
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The number of different marine eukaryotic organisms could reach up to 972,000, according to researchers.
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Previous estimates about the total mass of all life on our planet have to be reduced by about one third, according to a study by a German-US science team.
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Researchers have discovered new evidence that may back the famous Gaia hypothesis of Earth as a living organism.
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Seagrasses are generally considered to be the foundation of key coastal ecosystems.
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The ocean was turned into a global mega-organism 3 bn years ago before giving birth to the ancestors of all living things today.
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Even an organism can create a biological memory of some variable condition, such as quality of nutrition or temperature.
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Living things are split into 3 domains, eukaryotes and two simple celled micro-organism divisions.
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