因为如果我们不是（最具有创造力的生物），我们将无法在未来的生态系统中提供多少价值，这可能会使我们存在的基础受到质疑。
Because if we aren't, we won't be providing much value in future ecosystems, and that may put in question the foundation for our existence.
最近发表的一篇论文表明，城市化进程在未来几十年内只会加速——这将对生物多样性和气候变化产生巨大影响。
As a recently published paper shows, the process of urbanization will only accelerate in the decades to come—with an enormous impact on biodiversity and potentially on climate change.
本文综述了天蚕素抗菌肽的结构、来源、生物作用，重点介绍了天蚕素抗菌肽的应用，并对其存在的问题和未来发展前景进行分析。
This paper reviews the structure, source, biological function of cecropins and their application in plants and animals, and discuses their existing problems and perspectives.
然而，具有极大讽刺意味的是，这片小草地掌握着机器的命运——因为机器的未来是生物。
But in a grand irony, this patch holds the destiny of machines, for the future of machines is biology.
未来的科技突破将在多学科的领域中产生，包括生物、物理、计算机科学和数学等。
Many future breakthroughs are likely to emerge from multidisciplinary work at the nexus of biology, physics, computer science, and mathematics.
尽管基因组学和它带来的新生物预示了一个光明的、实际的未来。
Genomics, and the new biology it is bringing, thus promise a bright, practical future.
多年来科学家都对海水酸化对甲壳类生物的未来的影响非常担忧，不过根据一项新的研究表明，这情况已经发生了，而且已经持续了上百年。
Scientists have worried for years about ocean acidification affecting shelled creatures in the future, but according to a new study, it's already happening, and has been for over a hundred years.
从长远角度看，生物燃料的未来可能正在改善。
Over the long run, the future for biofuels may be looking up.
生产乙醇的新技术能否让古老树木变成未来的生物燃料？
Could new techniques for producing ethanol make old-fashioned trees the biofuel of the future?
本报告对那些已经涉足生物燃料市场的人士极为有价值，对那些未来希望进入这一市场的人士也是如此。
The report will be valuable to those already involved in the biofuels market or to those wishing to enter this important market in the future.
在未来，人造皮肤将会被镶上针对化学、生物制剂、温度、适度、放射性、污染物等刺激的感知器。
In the future, artificial skin could be studded with sensors that respond to chemicals, biological agents, temperature, humidity, radioactivity or pollutants.
天体生物学是研究宇宙生命起源，演化，分布和未来的学科。
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.
NGI正在以极大程度灵活性的设计来适应这些及其他生物学状态识别，这可能在未来执法过程中日益成熟且变得重要。
NGI is being designed with a significant degree of flexibility to accommodate these and other biometric modalities that may mature and become important to law enforcement efforts in the future.
未来是生物科技的天下。
世界进入非生物质可再生未来还遥遥无期。
The world is far from on track to a biomass-free renewable future.
结果表明，由于海洋酸度上升，海洋生物的未来暗淡，认为类似持续降低的海洋pH值可能导致了过去大规模物种的灭绝。
The results show a bleak future for Marine life as ocean acidity rises, and suggest that similar lowering of ocean pH levels may have been responsible for massive extinctions in the past.
即便传染病本身是由合成生物学所致的这一事实也仅仅是强调了未来风险的生物学属性。
Even the fact that such an infection might itself be the result of synthetic biology only emphasises the biological nature of future risks.
国际能源机构预计，即使没有任何提高能效或者鼓励使用生物燃料的新政策出台，未来20年内，美国的石油需求也会以每年0.7%的速度下滑。
The IEA reckons that even without any new policy measures to raise fuel efficiency or encourage biofuels, US oil demand will fall by 0.7 per cent a year over the next 20 years.
所有的生物组成了一张网，而不是一棵树，这意味着生物学的未来比任何人敢于想象的都要更加有趣。
Life is a web, not a tree, which means he future of biology is much more interesting than anyone had dared to hope.
基于对它们的更多了解，未来我们才有可能根据微生物群的组成来诊断疾病和开发有针对性的药物。
In the future, an improved understanding of the microbiota may allow us to diagnose diseases on the basis of microbiota composition and to design specific interventions.
美国和俄罗斯的官方表示，留存一些天花病毒以进行更多的测试，这对未来应对生物威胁是非常必要的。
U. S. and Russian government officials say it is essential they keep some smallpox alive in case a future biological threat demands more tests with the virus.
目前，生物科技的未来看起来比任何人所想象的还要多种多样，变化多端。
At the moment, it looks like the future of biotechnology could be more diverse and volatile than anyone had imagined.
如果并行超级计算机和在线计算机网络可以做到这一点，那么未来的科技——比如生物工程学——会赋予我们怎样的思考空间？
If parallel supercomputers and online computer networks can do this, what kind of new thinking Spaces will future technologies — such as bioengineering — offer us?
很有可能未来的科学史学家把生物学分为前基因时代和后基因时代。
It seems quite likely that future historians of science will divide biology into the pre - and post-genomic eras.
除此之外，陈汀峰教授和学生们对合成生物学的未来可能性充满希望。
Beyond this, Chan and the students are evangelical about the future possibilities of synthetic biology.
这种未来材料——可生物降解的塑料也许就来自于藻类衍生的油中。
A future source of such biodegradable plastics might even come from algae-derived oil.
在这种科幻式的未来中，生物燃料、纳米有机电路甚至包括修建摩天大楼的水泥建材都能依靠这些不受病毒侵染的细胞来生产。
In that science fiction future, vats of virus-proof mirror cells could pump out biofuel, lay down nano-size organic circuitry, and even extrude organic cement foundations for skyscrapers.
放眼未来，很多人认为生产生物燃料更好的办法是利用草和树苗来作为原料。因为它们拥有更多的纤维素。
For the future, many think a better way of making biofuels will be from grasses and saplings, which contain more cellulose.
一项根据能源使用的影响为未来能源排序的研究发现生物燃料是最糟糕的选项。
An ambitious attempt to rank future energy sources according to myriad repercussions of their use has found biofuels to be the most undesirable option.
一项根据能源使用的影响为未来能源排序的研究发现生物燃料是最糟糕的选项。
An ambitious attempt to rank future energy sources according to myriad repercussions of their use has found biofuels to be the most undesirable option.
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