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...structural precision of the carboxysomes’ positioning—which is not often found within single-celled organisms??increases the efficiency of the cyanobacteria’s carbon fixation, the process through which gaseous carbon is converted into organic fuel molecules, according to Savage...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bacteria Patterns Aid Carbon Fixation | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

Currently, analysis with CMS has been limited to human genes, but judging from its potential usefulness, Harvard Biology Professor Daniel L. Hartl said he predicts the new method may soon be used to analyze other organisms?? genomes as well...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Use Innovative Method to Follow Genetic Footprint | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...postulated that TB is tapping into a fundamental dormancy program that many different organisms??from seeds to yeast to worms—use,” Fortune said...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates Grants Fund Research | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...biologist William D. Hamilton in 1964. The idea helps explain how cooperative behavior can evolve among organisms. Biologists have often asked how cooperation could succeed when “cheaters”—organisms that did not express the cooperative gene—could benefit from other organisms?? cooperation. A green beard gene is a gene that allows organisms to cooperate only with other organisms that also have the gene. These organisms can identify each other as easily as if each possessed a green beard. While a handful of such genes were previously identified in ants...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beer Yeast Yield Discovery | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...when his father gave him a microscope and helped him set up a laboratory next to his bedroom. Their neighbor, a pathologist, gave him slides of organs preserved in formaldehyde, and Marshall says he discovered a method of breeding paramecia—single-celled organisms??in a mixture of grass, water, and cocoa powder.“My mother thought the protozoa would climb out and attack the house,” he says, but he assured her they couldn’t survive outside containment.Marshall never attended college, but says he enrolled at Harvard?...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bookbinder Doubles As Inventor | 1/18/2006 | See Source »

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