蜜蜂的免疫系統是透過飲食來維持，缺乏多樣的蛋白質會降低免疫系統運行的能力。
(The honeybee’s immune system is maintained through diet and that a lack of diverse protein sources reduces the ability of its immune system to function.)

微生物建構「奈米線」的外部蛋白網路，以輸出電子到細胞外
(Microbes build external protein networks of “nanowires” to export electrons outside their cell walls.)

萊姆病的病原體柏氏疏螺旋體擁有特殊的能力，能夠用錳，而不是鐵製造酶，並且幫助它躲避免疫系統的防禦和偵測其存在。
(The Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi has an unusual ability to substitute manganese for iron to build enzymes, which helps it elude immune defenses as well as tests to detect it.)

熱帶雨林底層植物以藍色虹光保護免受過多陽光損害
(Leaves of tropical rainforest understory plants are protected from excess sun by blue iridescence.)

人類的肌肉柔性取決於束縛分子單元之間的滑動
(The muscles of humans flex by the sliding of tethered molecular units over one another.)

緬甸蟒蛇的胃腸道系統由於細胞可塑性，能夠快速調節空腹和攝食之間的性能 (使節省能量)
(The gastrointestinal system in burmese pythons quickly regulates performance between fasting and feeding [leading to energy savings] thanks to cell plasticity.)

印度蟒在進食後，心臟因為血漿中的脂肪酸發生反應而急速生長
(Heart of Indian python incurs dramatic growth after a meal by react-ing to fatty acids in the snake’s plasma)

變形體的細胞骨架透過對環境改變環境線索的反應而改變肌動蛋白聚合物絲的交叉鏈結，從而迅速改變特性
(Cytoskeletons of an amoeba change properties quickly by varying cross-links of actin polymer filaments in response to changing environmental cues.)