These types of studies could yield the biggest reward, revealing
whether different organisms are correlated with different health states.
Not exact matches
Finally, thanks to the efforts of Muller and Scott; the French team at RPR; and Battersby's Cambridge group, chemists now know that the cobalt atom appears at the centre of the vitamin's ring at a
different stage in the pathway, depending on
whether the particular B12 - producing
organism is anaerobic or aerobic.
And the researchers eventually hope to be able to monitor mutation rates real time in entire
organisms, such as zebra fish, to see
whether different tissues have
different mutation rates.
Its main aim was to discover
whether different types of plastic and the presence of a biofilm — a layer of organic material which accumulates over time — altered the rate at which such
organisms broke down plastic debris.
About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists from 20 German research institutes have investigated how
different marine
organisms respond to ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and
whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.