What a Life!: bio

The company also purchased new enclosed amphibious vehicles manufactured for the river tour. Seattle Times (Jul 30, 2018)

With cheap, abundant and effective antibiotics at hand, people in the developed world became complacent about controlling infection. Salon (Nov 17, 2018)

Given the difficulties of getting products to the correct composting facilities, companies are increasingly experimenting with products they describe as biodegradable and hence capable of breaking down in oceans or landfills. Wall Street Journal (Jan 22, 2019)

A paradise of biodiversity, Madagascar is home to more than 80 chameleon species. Nature (Apr 18, 2018)

My biography is being written with my authorization and full cooperation by Richard Rhodes, a writer I greatly admire. New York Times (Feb 28, 2019)

PCR tests are notorious for cross-contamination errors, and the blood of actual Ebola victims is extremely dangerous and must be treated as a biohazard. New York Times (Oct 25, 2014)

To further observe the biology of sharks at these depths, O'Sullivan said the team plans to return to the site next summer, hoping to catch some of the eggs hatching. Fox News (Nov 13, 2018)

In biology, biomass pyramids chart the relative number or weight of one class of organism compared to another organism within the same ecosystem. The Verge (Dec 8, 2018)

Rainforests are the oldest living biomes on Earth and contain roughly half the known species of life. The Guardian (Jun 17, 2018)

I was fitted with the arm a few months later, and aged 13, became the youngest person in the world with a bionic arm. The Guardian (Nov 15, 2018)

It was there that scientists collected three biopsy samples, tiny bits of skin harmlessly taken from the whales with a crossbow dart, from a group of Type D killer whales, the agency said. Seattle Times (Mar 7, 2019)

We study the atmosphere, the ocean, the biosphere—and what our human actions are doing to them. Scientific American (Oct 18, 2018)

Grasslands are protected by “biotic crusts” that consist of loose soil held together by tiny cyanobacteria, lichens, mosses, and green algae. Slate (Dec 14, 2015)

Many of the deadliest diseases known to mankind are due to bacteria and viruses, and dozens of them are now entirely preventable thanks to the sciences of microbiology and immunology. Scientific American (Mar 21, 2019)

The term symbiosis is often used synonymously with mutualism, a relationship in which all partners benefit. Nature (Apr 2, 2019)