They can enter into the most vital processes of the body and change them in sinister and often deadly ways.
Further research at the University of California, Davis, soon produced several more successful chimeras, for the purpose of studying vital processes in livestock pregnancies.
Animals consume plants or other organic material to obtain chemical compounds, which are then oxidized to sustain vital processes.
Reproduction is an all-important function of an organism's life history, and all other vital processes, including senescence and death, are shaped to serve it.
Food, material consisting essentially of protein, carbohydrate, and fat used in the body of an organism to sustain growth, repair, and vital processes and to furnish energy.
The stomach is relatively small, and, since much vegetation must be ingested to maintain vital processes, foraging is almost constant under natural conditions.
By a conservative extrapolation, Parnia believes the relatively cheap and straightforward methods he uses to restore vital processes could save up to 40,000 American lives a year and maybe 10,000 British ones.
There are genes involved that stimulate proteins to begin vital processes such as the repair of damaged cells, which can have a big impact when it comes to postponing the onset of cancer, for example.
Let us call these vital processes.
Yet when amoebas split, and chlamydomonas fuse, the vital processes that sustain them do not cease.
Something's life can be restored only if it has lost its capacity for vital processes.
