The phrase "are critically affected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something is significantly impacted or influenced by a particular factor or event.
Example: "The ecosystems in the region are critically affected by climate change, leading to a loss of biodiversity."
Alternatives: "are severely impacted" or "are significantly influenced."
However, we found that these assay systems are critically affected by endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress.
Strategic decisions are critically affected not just by senior corporate managers, but also by midlevel general managers, their teams, and the operating managers who report to them.
Growth patterns of individual plants and evolutionary trajectories of plant communities are intimately linked with and are critically affected by host-associated microbiomes.
Ocean salinity and sea ice formation are critically affected by river input (Rawlins et al. 2009).
Interestingly, these are areas that are critically affected by Alzheimer's disease [55] and that have also been shown to be prone to impaired cerebral blood flow [56].
Rapid progress in organic-based flexible optoelectronics such as flexible organic light-emitting diodes [OLEDs] and organic photovoltaics [OPVs] required a high-performance thin-film passivation because both lifetime and performance of the flexible OLEDs and OPVs are critically affected by the quality of the encapsulation [1 3].
The high temperature strength was critically affected by the chemistry, especially the content of Al in the intergranular phase (IGP).
While it is well-appreciated that nanocomposite flow behavior is critically affected by filler dispersion, the roles of the matrix and the polymeric grafts remain unexplored.
I argue that national technological performance in biotechnology is critically affected by institutions governing scientific careers, which shape the professional identities and boundary-spanning activities of research scientists.
