Giant viruses infecting amoebas, single-celled eukaryotic organisms, can themselves be parasitized by other viruses, called ...

The story of life on Earth is deeply intertwined with the evolution of photosynthesis, a process that transformed the ...

Rare, specialist plankton and microbes that have adapted to live under the Arctic ice are at risk as the ice melts.

北极地区正经历全球变暖的加剧，尤其是海冰消融的速度远远超过全球其他地区。根据气候模型，北极的气温升高速度是全球平均水平的两倍以上，导致海冰覆盖面积逐年减少。海冰的消融不仅改变了北极的物理环境，也对当地的生物群落造成了深远的影响。海冰下的微生物群落通常 ...

Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. Engineered microbes ...