Sea- and saltmarsh grasses thrive along most of Earth’s coastlines. They form the basis for some of the most ecologically and economically valuable…
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities infecting all cellular life forms with major consequences for their individual hosts and entire…
The discovery of antibiotics is one of the greatest achievements in human medicine. However, the introduction and overuse of antibiotics led towards…
Wetlands are important carbon sinks but at the same time a major global source of the greenhouse gas methane. Wetlands are responsible for about a…
Many bacterial species produce secondary metabolites that are not essential for their growth but provide advantages in environmental adaptation, e.g.…
Nitrogen (N) is essential for all life on Earth and the most abundant element in the atmosphere, where it mainly occurs as dinitrogen gas (N2).…
Virtually every animal on Earth evolved with and among trillions of microbes in the environment. Interactions with these microbes are mostly invisible…
Extremely premature infants, which are born before the 28th week of gestation and weighing <1,000 grams, are a highly vulnerable patient group. They…
BiOcean5D is a major interdisciplinary project designed to better understand the impact of human activity on Europe's seas and coastlines.
