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Expanding the Limits of Life

Scientific American, 2009
The article discusses the possibilities of how life evolved through the analysis of a previously undiscovered hot vent ecosystem, named the Lost City, on the seafloor. In 2000 researchers discovered an undersea hydrothermal vent that they sampled and analyzed.
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Limited Resources Limiting Life?

2002
The question, “Is death ever preferable to life?” is only meaningful if there can be a choice between life and death. Even if that choice is made, there may be constraints on that preference being satisfied. Limited resources and the need to ration resources are such a constraint on being able to choose life, or satisfy a preference for life.
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Limits of Life

New technologies and scientific imagination rearrange the boundary that we identify as the beginning and end of life. New techno-social constellations, such as the ever-increasing presence of digital avatars and genetic screenings, implore us to reconsider and transcend the existing definitions of life and death.
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Microbial Extremophiles at the Limits of Life

Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 2007
Prokaryotic extremophiles were the first representatives of life on Earth and they are responsible for the genesis of geological structures during the evolution and creation of all currently known ecosystems. Flexibility of the genome probably allowed life to adapt to a wide spectrum of extreme environments.
Elena V, Pikuta, Richard B, Hoover, Jane, Tang   +2 more
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Bioethics: limits to the interference with life

Animal Reproduction Science, 2000
The paper presents a review of various ethical considerations to which the application of modern biotechnology in breeding of domestic animals gives rise. The review is based on an automated literature search, covering papers and reports within agricultural bioethics published since 1992.
Christiansen, Stine Billeschou, Sandøe, Peter   +1 more
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Parenting with a Life-Limiting Illness

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2018
Parents with life-threatening illness face unique challenges in their dual roles as patients and parents. They are at risk for depression, parenting stress, and impaired family functioning, and their children are at risk for adjustment difficulties. In addition to treatment of depression and other mental health issues, patients may also benefit from ...
Sarah E, Shea, Cynthia W, Moore
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Life at the Limits

2002
We are fascinated by the seemingly impossible places in which organisms can live. There are frogs that freeze solid, worms that dry out and bacteria that survive temperatures over 100˚C. What seems extreme to us is, however, not extreme to these organisms. In this captivating account, the reader is taken on a tour of extreme environments, and shown the
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The limits of life on Earth and searching for life on Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 1997
Considerations of basic properties of bacteria such as size, structure, and metabolic versatility allow one to understand how these remarkable life‐forms are so adaptable to environments previously thought to be uninhabitable. It is now appreciated that bacteria on Earth can utilize almost any redox couple that yields energy, taking advantage of this ...
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Limits of Life, Limits of the Body

In the past, the view according to which the limits of human lives can be questioned had often been advocated by people on the basis of religious dogmas concerning the soul's immortality; today, curiously, many endorse the same view on the basis of a scientific conception of Life which posits that Life can be abstracted away from any particular medium.
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[At the] Limits of Life!?

Forum Marsilius-Kolleg, Bd. 24 Nr.
Schütz, Nils, Wittbrodt, Jochen, Moos, Thorsten   +2 more
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