Viruses are not like other organisms and nobody is quite sure where they originated, but a newly discovered single -
celled organism seems to offer a clue
Not exact matches
The only satisfactory solution... would
seem to be that mind is universal, present not only in all
organisms and in their
cells but in their molecules, atoms and elementary particles.
The sea sponge may
seem like an odd choice for genomic research considering that its simple body lacks muscles, organs, and nerve
cells, but the creature provides a wealth of information on how multicellular
organism arose.
It now
seems that bacteria can mate with any
organism with a
cell membrane, says Stanley Maloy, a biologist at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign.
«It's surprising,» that the cold seep worm churns out new
cells so fast, says François Lallier, an animal physiologist at the Roscoff Biological Station, France, as long - lived
organisms tend to have slow metabolism, and it
seems the worm has limited resources to work with.
They instead
seem to be a product of natural selection, optimized to generate a favorable degree of genetic diversity, as well as to help safeguard the
organism's
cells against the kinds of errors that tend to occur most frequently during the process of protein synthesis.
The more copies of an
organism's genome in its
cells, the more those
cells seem to benefit in terms of growth and adaptation.
Paligenosis, Mills explains, appears similar to apoptosis — the programmed death of
cells as a normal part of an
organism's growth and development — in that it
seems to happen the same way in every
cell, regardless of its location in the body.
As you mention the microbiome yourself, I am wondering if you have researched probiotics, soil based
organisms or probiotic lysates for allergies, as they
seem to be one of the keys to eliminate them, either that their introduction replaces the bad guys in our guts or because it educates are gut
cells how to properly behave to food allergens or also by eliminating / digesting them.