Aquatic viruses include infected viruses in aquatic animals, plants and microorganisms, and
free-floating viruses (virioplankton) in water environments. In the last three decades, a huge …

Our current knowledge of the virosphere in deep‐sea sediments remains rudimentary. Here
we investigated viral diversity at both gene and genomic levels in deep‐sea sediments of …

Deep-sea brine pools represent hypersaline environments famed for their extremophile
microbes. With anoxia entirely excluding bioturbating megafauna, brine pools are also …

The advent of metagenomics has greatly facilitated the discovery of enzymes with useful
biochemical characteristics for industrial and biomedical applications, from environmental …

The recent rise in antibiotic and chemotherapeutic resistance necessitates the search for
novel drugs. Potential therapeutics can be produced by specialized metabolism gene …

The highly extreme conditions of the lower convective layer in the Atlantis II (ATII) Deep
brine pool of the Red Sea make it an ideal environment for the search for novel enzymes …

Deep-sea brine pools represent rare, extreme environments, providing unique insight into
the limits of life on Earth, and by analogy, the plausibility of life beyond it. A distinguishing …

Drug resistance is a major cause of the inefficacy of conventional cancer therapies, and
often accompanied by severe side effects. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop novel …

Background Group II introns are mobile genetic elements used as efficient gene targeting
tools. They function as both ribozymes and retroelements. Group IIC introns are the only …

The lower convective layer (LCL) at Atlantis II brine pool of the Red sea represents one of
the exceptional, unique ecosystems. Thioredoxin is a multi-functional antioxidant redox …