每一种死亡都是悲剧——不管死因是什么——但是我们并没有比与我们共存于地球上的其它生物更大的权利来利用地球上的一切。
Every death is a tragedy—regardless of the cause—but we have no greater claim to use this earth than any of the other creatures that we share it with.
今天,生物学家利用21世纪的工具来研究细胞和DNA,开始了解这些植物是如何捕食和消化的——以及这些奇异的适应性最初是如何产生的。
Today, biologists, using 21st-century tools to study cells and DNA, are beginning to understand how these plants hunt, eat and digest—and how such bizarre adaptations arose in the first place.
每个潮汐周期都会将植物带到近海海水中,从而被潮水下的生物所利用。
Each tidal cycle carries plant material into the offshore water to be used by the subtidal organisms.
改变社会和全球经济的强大新力量包括网络起源,人类和智能机器的结合,生物起源以及利用基因技术来改善自我。
Powerful new forces altering society and the global economy include cybergenesis, the merging of humans and smart machines, and biogenesis, the harnessing of genetic technologies to improve ourselves.
与此同时,另一家人工智能公司 Soul Machines 正在采取一种更为生物化的方法,利用仿人类大脑不同方面的“数字化大脑”,调整“数字人类”所“感受”和“表达”的情绪。
Meanwhile, another AI company, Soul Machines, is taking a more biological approach, with a "digital brain", that imitates aspects of the human brain to adjust the emotions "felt" and "expressed" by its "digital people".
生物纳米技术是利用生物分子在纳米技术中的应用。
Bionanotechnology is the use of biomolecules for applications in nanotechnology.
利用微生物种群共生共培养来研究木薯淀粉的生物降解性。
The biodegradability of tapioca starch was studied by using micropopulation symbiotic cocultures.
利用毕赤酵母表达具有生物学活性的蛇毒类凝血酶安克洛。
Express ancrod, a snake venom thrombin-like enzyme, in methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris.
还回顾了一些技术方法如化学调节,生物补救和生物积累,可用于牛粪、废糖浆和蠕虫的利用。
It also reviews technical methods such as chemical interventions, bioremediation and bio accumulation, which can involve the use of cow dung, molasses and worms.
但是利用现存物种的DNA重建哺乳动物系统树的生物学家却得出了不同的结论。
But biologists reconstructing the mammalian tree of evolution from the DNA of living species have come to a different conclusion.
他们利用生物砖组件改变大肠杆菌使其在遇到砷的时候发出警告信号。
E. coli bacteria were modified using BioBrick components to produce a warning signal in the presence of arsenic.
但利用农业废料的新一代生物燃料却体现了真正的潜力。
But the next generation of biofuels made from agricultural waste shows real promise.
选择好地点需要知道生物如何利用空间并权衡利弊。
Selecting good bits requires understanding how critters use space and weighing competing claims for it.
所有生物使用和重复利用相同的水。
这意味着含有这种叶绿素的生物可以拓宽他们的光合范围,最大限度地利用太阳能。
That means that organisms that have this chlorophyll inside can extend their photosynthetic range for maximum use of solar energy.
美国和欧洲希望利用生物燃料来对抗全球变暖,并增强能源安全。
The us and Europe want to use biofuels to combat global warming and to strengthen energy security.
不过“生物砖”却是在试着为相同的生物“元件”提供业内已知的工具,而利用这些工具正是银杏公司的部分商业计划。
BioBricks are, nevertheless, an attempt to provide the equivalent of electronic components with known properties to the field-and using them is part of Ginkgo's business plan.
科学家利用海洋颜色的变化来估计叶绿素含量以及海洋浮游植物的生物量。
Scientists use these changes in ocean color to estimate chlorophyll concentration and the biomass of phytoplankton in the ocean.
利用粮食作物生产生物燃料也是如此。
但是这样做会导致浪费和污染。然而蚂蚁却利用微生物完成了这个过程。
But this leads to waste and pollution, "and the ants accomplish it through microbes."
按公司所说,利用植物生产塑料可以使柳枝稷在生产生物塑料的同时利用残余的生物量生产能量。
Growing the plastic in a plant will allow for the switchgrass to produce both bioplastics and use residual biomass for energy, according to the company.
研究人员发表《现代生物学》上的文章称,他们已经证明,利用这种生物现象来推测一个人的年龄“既准确又可靠”。
Writing in Current Biology, the researchers said they had shown that this biological phenomenon could be used for estimating the age of a human individual "accurately and reliably".
“利用生物系统、活生物体或者其衍生物为特定用途而生产或改变产品或过程的任何技术应用”。
"Any technological application that USES biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use".
在肯尼亚,正在利用生物技术来解决这一问题。
In Kenya, biotechnology is being tapped to tackle the problem.
报告称,在南撒哈拉非洲地区,传统生物能利用量占能源总利用量的56%。
According to the report, in Sub-Saharan Africa, 56 percent of total energy use comes from traditional biomass.
报告称,在南撒哈拉非洲地区,传统生物能利用量占能源总利用量的56%。
According to the report, in Sub-Saharan Africa, 56 percent of total energy use comes from traditional biomass.
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