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"abstract": "Social groups balance flexibility and robustness in their collective response to environmental changes using feedback between behavioural processes that operate at different timescales. Here we examine how behavioural processes operating at two timescales regulate the foraging activity of colonies of t... | 80 |
34640083 | PMC8510011 | pmc | 1,273 | {
"abstract": "Ice formation on the aerodynamic surfaces of an aircraft is regarded as a major problem in the aerospace industry. Ice accumulation may damage parts, sensors and controllers and alter the aerodynamics of the airplane, leading to a range of undesired consequences, including flight delays, emergency land... | 4,131 |
27739593 | PMC5248637 | pmc | 1,274 | {
"abstract": "Summary \n In general, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal ( AM ) fungi exchange photosynthetically fixed carbon for soil nutrients, but occasionally nonphotosynthetic plants obtain carbon from AM fungi. The interactions of these mycoheterotrophic plants with AM fungi are suggested to be more special... | 4,431 |
35494131 | PMC9044548 | pmc | 1,275 | {
"abstract": "In this article, we propose an artificial synaptic device based on a proton-conducting peptide material. By using the redox-active property of tyrosine, the Tyr–Tyr–Ala–Cys–Ala–Tyr–Tyr peptide film was utilized as a gate insulator that shows synaptic plasticity owing to the formation of proton electric... | 3,541 |
30577690 | null | s2 | 1,276 | {
"abstract": "Materials synthesized by organisms, such as bones and wood, combine the ability to self-repair with remarkable mechanical properties. This multifunctionality arises from the presence of living cells within the material and hierarchical assembly of different components across nanometer to micron scales.... | 338 |
37861333 | PMC10715148 | pmc | 1,277 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Aerobic gammaproteobacterial methanotrophs (gMOB) are key organisms controlling methane fluxes at the oxic-anoxic interfaces of freshwater ecosystems. Under hypoxic environments, gMOB may shift their aerobic metabolism to fermentation, resulting in the production of extracellular organic acids... | 761 |
35902599 | PMC9334620 | pmc | 1,278 | {
"abstract": "CMOS-based computing systems that employ the von Neumann architecture are relatively limited when it comes to parallel data storage and processing. In contrast, the human brain is a living computational signal processing unit that operates with extreme parallelism and energy efficiency. Although numero... | 1,557 |
29222443 | PMC5864196 | pmc | 1,279 | {
"abstract": "Small acidophilic archaea belonging to Micrarchaeota and Parvarchaeota phyla are known to physically interact with some Thermoplasmatales members in nature. However, due to a lack of cultivation and limited genomes on hand, their biodiversity, metabolisms, and physiologies remain largely unresolved. He... | 11,476 |
33930184 | PMC8361744 | pmc | 1,280 | {
"abstract": "Summary \n Recent studies show that the variation in root functional traits can be explained by a two‐dimensional trait framework, containing a ‘collaboration’ axis in addition to the classical fast–slow ‘conservation’ axis. This collaboration axis spans from thin and highly branched roots that employ ... | 5,257 |
36875665 | PMC9978206 | pmc | 1,281 | {
"abstract": "Event cameras are asynchronous and neuromorphically inspired visual sensors, which have shown great potential in object tracking because they can easily detect moving objects. Since event cameras output discrete events, they are inherently suitable to coordinate with Spiking Neural Network (SNN), which... | 2,618 |
35755439 | PMC9213755 | pmc | 1,282 | {
"abstract": "Cleaning symbioses are key mutualistic interactions where cleaners remove ectoparasites and tissues from client fishes. Such interactions elicit beneficial effects on clients’ ecophysiology, with cascading effects on fish diversity and abundance. Ocean acidification (OA), resulting from increasing CO 2... | 5,153 |
38024730 | PMC10653055 | pmc | 1,283 | {
"abstract": "Most chemicals are manufactured by traditional chemical\nprocesses\nbut at the expense of toxic catalyst use, high energy consumption,\nand waste generation. Biotransformation is a green, sustainable, and\ncost-effective process. As cyanobacteria can use light as the energy\nsource to power the synthes... | 2,167 |
39370460 | PMC11456601 | pmc | 1,284 | {
"abstract": "Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use the metabolic actions of microorganisms in an anode chamber to convert the chemical energy from wastewater into electrical energy. To improve the MFC power generation performance and chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency, Stenotrophomonas acidaminiphila was a... | 3,979 |
24065962 | PMC3777014 | pmc | 1,286 | {
"abstract": "Lignocellulosic biofuels are promising as sustainable alternative fuels, but lignin inhibits access of enzymes to cellulose, and by-products of lignin degradation can be toxic to cells. The fast growth, high efficiency and specificity of enzymes employed in the anaerobic litter deconstruction carried o... | 10,544 |
22250003 | PMC3259624 | pmc | 1,287 | {
"abstract": "Major feedstock sources for future biofuel production are likely to be high biomass producing plant species such as poplar, pine, switchgrass, sorghum and maize. One active area of research in these species is genome-enabled improvement of lignocellulosic biofuel feedstock quality and yield. To facilit... | 4,179 |
31068664 | PMC6506546 | pmc | 1,288 | {
"abstract": "Temperate marine ecosystems globally are undergoing regime shifts from dominance by habitat-forming kelps to dominance by opportunistic algal turfs. While the environmental drivers of shifts to turf are generally well-documented, the feedback mechanisms that stabilize novel turf-dominated ecosystems re... | 3,802 |
30322171 | PMC6215152 | pmc | 1,289 | {
"abstract": "Super-hydrophobic natural surfaces usually have multiple levels of structure hierarchy. Here, we report on the effect of surface structure hierarchy for droplet evaporation. The two-level hierarchical structures studied comprise micro-pillars superimposed with nanograss. The surface design is fully sca... | 4,375 |
38474537 | PMC10934110 | pmc | 1,290 | {
"abstract": "Spider silk protein, renowned for its excellent mechanical properties, biodegradability, chemical stability, and low immune and inflammatory response activation, consists of a core domain with a repeat sequence and non-repeating sequences at the N-terminal and C-terminal. In this review, we focus on th... | 2,029 |
28289730 | PMC5340862 | pmc | 1,291 | {
"abstract": "This study elucidates how a cyanobacterial primary producer acclimates to heterotrophic partnership by modulating the expression levels of key metabolic genes. Heterotrophic bacteria can indirectly regulate the physiology of the photoautotrophic primary producers, resulting in physiological changes ide... | 3,836 |
34878117 | PMC8691061 | pmc | 1,293 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Massive corals of the genus Porites , common, keystone reef builders in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, are distinguished by their relative stress tolerance and longevity. In order to identify genetic bases of these attributes, we sequenced the complete genome of a massive coral, Porites australiens... | 4,626 |
38027382 | PMC10666214 | pmc | 1,294 | {
"abstract": "Rheological and mechanical comparative tests of the new\nAquaSun\nantifouling sol–gel coating coated on shipbuilding steel compared\nto a commercial silyl acrylate antifouling top coat containing cuprous\noxide and copper pyrithione show further evidence of the practical\nviability of this multifunctio... | 3,515 |
39404300 | PMC11477948 | pmc | 1,295 | {
"abstract": "The traditional computer with von Neumann architecture has the characteristics of separate storage and computing units, which leads to sizeable time and energy consumption in the process of data transmission, which is also the famous “von Neumann storage wall” problem. Inspired by neural synapses, neur... | 2,314 |
34409139 | PMC8361290 | pmc | 1,296 | {
"abstract": "This research data set contains data related to experimental dataset on the effect of the electron acceptors in energy generation from brewery wastewater via a microbial fuel cell. The presented data gives information on the generation of electricity and waste minimization as various electron acceptors... | 293 |
35604161 | PMC9241726 | pmc | 1,297 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT In the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa , many virulence traits are finely regulated by quorum sensing (QS), an intercellular communication system that allows the cells of a population to coordinate gene expression in response to cell density. The key aspects underlying the funct... | 5,226 |
37715250 | PMC10503168 | pmc | 1,298 | {
"abstract": "Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a bio-electrical energy generator that uses respiring microbes to transform organic matter present in sludge into electrical energy. The primary goal of this work was to introduce a new approach to the green electricity generation technology. In this context a total of 6 ba... | 4,026 |
33997673 | PMC8091062 | pmc | 1,299 | {
"abstract": "Summary Critical minerals are essential for the ever-increasing urban and industrial activities in modern society. The shift to cost-efficient and ecofriendly urban mining can be an avenue to replace the traditional linear flow of virgin-mined materials. Electrochemical separation technologies provide ... | 1,775 |
33800960 | PMC7961771 | pmc | 1,300 | {
"abstract": "In order to replace nonrenewable resources and decrease electronic waste disposal, there is a rapidly rising demand for the utilization of reproducible and degradable biopolymers in flexible electronics. Natural biopolymers have many remarkable characteristics, including light weight, excellent mechani... | 1,831 |
34538267 | PMC8451101 | pmc | 1,301 | {
"abstract": "Background Recent research articles indicate that direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) is an alternative metabolic route for methanogenic archaea that improves microbial methane productivity. It has been shown that multiple conductive materials such as biochar can be supplemented to anaerobic d... | 7,584 |
36604311 | PMC10034640 | pmc | 1,302 | {
"abstract": "Abstract In addition to being an important intermediate in the TCA cycle, L‐malate is also widely used in the chemical and beverage industries. Due to the resulting high demand, numerous studies investigated chemical methods to synthesize L‐malate from petrochemical resources, but such approaches are h... | 1,919 |
26934187 | PMC4774936 | pmc | 1,303 | {
"abstract": "Bacterial biofilms are usually assumed to originate from individual cells deposited on a surface. However, many biofilm-forming bacteria tend to aggregate in the planktonic phase so that it is possible that many natural and infectious biofilms originate wholly or partially from pre-formed cell aggregat... | 3,554 |
27213013 | PMC4874023 | pmc | 1,304 | {
"abstract": "Background Lignin content and structure are known to affect recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass to chemical/biochemical conversion. Previously, we identified rare Populus trichocarpa natural variants with significantly reduced lignin content. Because reduced lignin content may lower recalcitranc... | 7,414 |
34522851 | PMC8426204 | pmc | 1,305 | {
"abstract": "Summary Biomethane is suggested as an advanced biofuel for the hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy transport. However, future systems that optimize the resource and production of biomethane have yet to be definitively defined. This paper assesses the opportunity of integrating anaerobic digestion (AD) ... | 2,620 |
38113265 | PMC10756270 | pmc | 1,306 | {
"abstract": "Significance Coral reefs are in jeopardy as climate change leads to increasingly frequent marine heatwaves. Some corals survive these extreme events, and this exposure may prime corals to increase their heat tolerance. Yet, as the time between heatwaves decreases, the accumulation of stress experienced... | 4,696 |
28694844 | null | s2 | 1,307 | {
"abstract": "The ability to electronically interface living cells with electron accepting scaffolds is crucial for the development of next-generation biophotovoltaic technologies. Although recent studies have focused on engineering synthetic interfaces that can maximize electronic communication between the cell and... | 408 |
28855327 | PMC5576898 | pmc | 1,308 | {
"abstract": "Obligate endosymbiosis is operationally defined when loss or removal of the endosymbiont from the host results in the death of both. Whereas these relationships are typically viewed as mutualistic, molecular and cellular analysis reveals numerous instances in which these symbiotic relationships are est... | 149 |
33668786 | PMC7996188 | pmc | 1,309 | {
"abstract": "Plant-associated endophytic microorganisms are essential to developing successful strategies for sustainable agriculture. Grazing is an effective practice of grassland utilization through regulating multitrophic relationships in natural grasslands. This study was conducted for exploring the effects of ... | 4,626 |
36838299 | PMC9967897 | pmc | 1,310 | {
"abstract": "Weeds have always been considered an insidious enemy, capable of reducing crop production. Conversely, the agroecological vision attributes a key role to the spontaneous flora in promoting plant diversity and belowground interactions, which may improve the ecological performance of agroecosystems. We s... | 7,277 |
40113879 | PMC11926120 | pmc | 1,312 | {
"abstract": "Predictor-based Neural Architecture Search (NAS) utilizes performance predictors to swiftly estimate architecture accuracy, thereby reducing the cost of architecture evaluation. However, existing predictor models struggle to represent spatial topological information in graph-structured data and fail to... | 1,817 |
35185391 | PMC8856095 | pmc | 1,315 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Due to its abundance, mechanical energy is a promising ambient energy source. Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) represent an effective mechanical energy harvesting method based on the use of contact electrification. The existing liquid-based TENGs can operate robustly without surface damage... | 3,930 |
25325380 | PMC4817704 | pmc | 1,316 | {
"abstract": "Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels are rapidly rising causing an increase in the partial pressure of CO 2 ( p CO 2 ) in the ocean and a reduction in pH known as ocean acidification (OA). Natural volcanic seeps in Papua New Guinea expel 99% pure CO 2 and thereby offer a unique opportunity to ex... | 5,988 |
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37848881 | PMC10580613 | pmc | 1,319 | {
"abstract": "Background The increasing prevalence of plastic waste combined with the inefficiencies of mechanical recycling has inspired interest in processes that can convert these waste streams into value-added biomaterials. To date, the microbial conversion of plastic substrates into biomaterials has been predom... | 11,033 |
32877528 | PMC7783167 | pmc | 1,320 | {
"abstract": "Abstract The genus Acropora comprises the most diverse and abundant scleractinian corals (Anthozoa, Cnidaria) in coral reefs, the most diverse marine ecosystems on Earth. However, the genetic basis for the success and wide distribution of Acropora are unknown. Here, we sequenced complete genomes of... | 8,820 |
35755868 | PMC9214320 | pmc | 1,321 | {
"abstract": "Summary The spiking neural network (SNN) mimics the information-processing operation in the human brain. Directly applying backpropagation to the training of the SNN still has a performance gap compared with traditional deep neural networks. To address the problem, we propose a biologically plausible s... | 3,585 |
23235806 | null | s2 | 1,323 | {
"abstract": "This work demonstrates a facile fabrication method to produce superhydrophobic coatings on chemically distinct materials using the electrospraying process. Coatings are mechanically robust, three-dimensional, and formed using a single fabrication step."
} | 63 |
36895759 | PMC9988671 | pmc | 1,325 | {
"abstract": "Developing versatile and robust surfaces that mimic the skins of living beings to regulate air/liquid/solid matter is critical for many bioinspired applications. Despite notable achievements, such as in the case of developing robust superhydrophobic surfaces, it remains elusive to realize simultaneousl... | 1,754 |
35223068 | PMC8864349 | pmc | 1,327 | {
"abstract": "Complex patterns of collective behaviour may emerge through self-organization, from local interactions among individuals in a group. To understand what behavioural rules underlie these patterns, computational models are often necessary. These rules have not yet been systematically studied for bird floc... | 4,603 |
36064549 | PMC9445036 | pmc | 1,330 | {
"abstract": "The reversibly stable formation and rupture processes of electrical percolative pathways in organic and inorganic insulating materials are essential prerequisites for operating non-volatile resistive memory devices. However, such resistive switching has not yet been reported for dynamically cross-linke... | 2,354 |
39358940 | PMC11707565 | pmc | 1,332 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Water‐repellent superhydrophobic surfaces are ubiquitous in nature. The fundamental understanding of bio/bio‐inspired structures facilitates practical applications surmounting metastable superhydrophobicity. Typically, the hierarchical structure and/or reentrant morphology have been employed h... | 9,318 |
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"abstract": "Global energy and environmental problems have stimulated increasing efforts toward synthesizing liquid biofuels as transportation energy. Compared to the traditional biofuel, ethanol, advanced biofuels should offer advantages such as higher energy density, lower hygroscopicity, lower vapor pressure, an... | 198 |
28748930 | null | s2 | 1,335 | {
"abstract": "Neurons in the brain behave as nonlinear oscillators, which develop rhythmic activity and interact to process information. Taking inspiration from this behaviour to realize high-density, low-power neuromorphic computing will require very large numbers of nanoscale nonlinear oscillators. A simple estima... | 83 |
33494537 | PMC7865638 | pmc | 1,337 | {
"abstract": "Among smart materials, self-healing is one of the most studied properties. A self-healing polymer can repair the cracks that occurred in the structure of the material. Polyketones, which are high-performance thermoplastic polymers, are a suitable material for a self-healing mechanism: a furanic pendant... | 6,020 |
28622518 | null | s2 | 1,340 | {
"abstract": "How do neighboring bacterial biofilms sense and communicate with each other? In a recent paper, Liu et al. (2017) demonstrate how electrical signaling allows communication of metabolic states between adjacent B. subtilis biofilms, providing a possible generalizable mechanism for communication in multis... | 87 |
29205917 | PMC6011919 | pmc | 1,341 | {
"abstract": "Summary Biogas production is performed anaerobically by complex microbial communities with key species driving the process. Hence, analyses of their in situ activities are crucial to understand the process. In a previous study, metagenome sequencing and subsequent genome binning for different product... | 9,152 |
35210576 | PMC7612595 | pmc | 1,342 | {
"abstract": "Most trees on Earth forms a symbiosis with either arbuscular mycorrhizal or ectomycorrhizal fungi. By forming common mycorrhizal networks, actively modifying the soil environment, and other ecological mechanisms - these contrasting symbioses may generate positive feedbacks that favor their own mycorrhi... | 2,841 |
20520808 | PMC2877076 | pmc | 1,343 | {
"abstract": "Background With the recognition that environmental change resulting from anthropogenic activities is causing a global decline in biodiversity, much attention has been devoted to understanding how changes in biodiversity may alter levels of ecosystem functioning. Although environmental complexity has lo... | 3,975 |
36037344 | PMC9457591 | pmc | 1,345 | {
"abstract": "Significance Interactions between species in nature can vary in strength and direction and may be driven by environmental variation. We use kelp forests as an example to show how varying species-interaction strengths, estimated directly from time-series data on species abundances, can be related to low... | 2,356 |
35149841 | null | s2 | 1,346 | {
"abstract": "Historically, appreciation for the roles of resource gradients in biology has fluctuated inversely to the popularity of genetic mechanisms. Nevertheless, in microbiology specifically, widespread recognition of the multicellular lifestyle has recently brought new emphasis to the importance of resource g... | 291 |
35149841 | null | s2 | 1,347 | {
"abstract": "Historically, appreciation for the roles of resource gradients in biology has fluctuated inversely to the popularity of genetic mechanisms. Nevertheless, in microbiology specifically, widespread recognition of the multicellular lifestyle has recently brought new emphasis to the importance of resource g... | 291 |
38063708 | PMC10708255 | pmc | 1,348 | {
"abstract": "As artificial synapse devices, memristors have attracted widespread attention in the field of neuromorphic computing. In this paper, Al/polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)/egg albumen (EA)–graphene quantum dots (GQDs)/PMMA/indium tin oxide (ITO) electrically/optically tunable biomemristors were fabricated u... | 2,291 |
36181435 | PMC9585477 | pmc | 1,349 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Thermoprofundales, formerly Marine Benthic Group D (MBG-D), is a ubiquitous archaeal lineage found in sedimentary environments worldwide. However, its taxonomic classification, metabolic pathways, and evolutionary history are largely unexplored because of its uncultivability and limited number... | 8,158 |
39636428 | PMC11656839 | pmc | 1,350 | {
"abstract": "Structures such as 3D buckling have been widely used\nto impart\nstretchability to devices. However, these structures have limitations\nwhen applied to piezoelectric devices due to the uneven distribution\nof internal strain during deformation. When strains with opposite\ndirections simultaneously affe... | 6,096 |
38347913 | PMC10859422 | pmc | 1,352 | {
"abstract": "Our reliance on agriculture for sustenance, healthcare, and resources has been essential since the dawn of civilization. However, traditional agricultural practices are no longer adequate to meet the demands of a burgeoning population amidst climate-driven agricultural challenges. Microalgae emerge as ... | 1,708 |
40032838 | PMC11876297 | pmc | 1,354 | {
"abstract": "The practicality of memristor-based computation-in-memory (CIM) systems is limited by the specific hardware design and the manual parameters tuning process. Here, we introduce a software-hardware co-development approach to improve the flexibility and efficiency of the CIM system. The hardware component... | 2,326 |
36506134 | PMC9730453 | pmc | 1,355 | {
"abstract": "The separation of\noceanic spilled oils and industrial oily wastewaters\nbecomes a great challenge, and it is highly desirable to develop efficient\nmaterials for oil/water separation. As abundant sustainable resources,\nsuperhydrophobic papers (SPs) have drawn much attention because of\nlow-cost and e... | 1,658 |
36844545 | PMC9948220 | pmc | 1,360 | {
"abstract": "The development of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs)\ntechnology\nhas advanced in recent years. However, TENG performance is affected\nby the screened-out surface charge density owing to the abundant free\nelectrons and physical adhesion at the electrode-tribomaterial interface.\nFurthermore, the de... | 5,252 |
22215088 | PMC3272573 | pmc | 1,361 | {
"abstract": "To utilize biofilms for chemical transformations in biorefineries they need to be controlled and replaced. Previously, we engineered the global regulator Hha and cyclic diguanylate-binding BdcA to create proteins that enable biofilm dispersal. Here we report a biofilm circuit that utilizes these two di... | 1,610 |
20573513 | null | s2 | 1,362 | {
"abstract": "The expression of many bacterial phenotypes is regulated according to the concentration of chemical cues that they or other bacteria produce, a process often termed quorum sensing (QS). Many aspects of the environment can affect cue concentration. Thus these molecules might be indirect proxies for any ... | 234 |
25096883 | PMC4128364 | pmc | 1,363 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Biofilms are densely populated communities of microbial cells protected and held together by a matrix of extracellular polymeric substances. The structure and rheological properties of the matrix at the microscale influence the retention and transport of molecules and cells in the biofilm, the... | 4,324 |
35541105 | PMC9080522 | pmc | 1,364 | {
"abstract": "Electrospun hybrid nanofibers prepared using combinations of natural and synthetic polymers have been widely investigated in tissue engineering. In this study, silk fibroin (SF) and poly( l -lactic acid- co -ε-caprolactone) (PLCL) hybrid scaffolds were successfully prepared by electrospinning. Scanning... | 2,410 |
37007672 | PMC10054230 | pmc | 1,366 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The traditional von Neumann architecture is gradually failing to meet the urgent need for highly parallel computing, high-efficiency, and ultra-low power consumption for the current explosion of data. Brain-inspired neuromorphic computing can break the inherent limitations of traditional compu... | 2,017 |
37598370 | PMC10444008 | pmc | 1,367 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Fermentation effluents from organic wastes contain simple organic acids and ethanol, which are good electron sources for exoelectrogenic bacteria, and hence are considered a promising substrate for hydrogen production in microbial electrolysis cells (MECs). These fermentation products have dif... | 6,385 |
29696650 | null | s2 | 1,368 | {
"abstract": "Large-scale environmental disturbances may impact both partners in coral host-Symbiodinium systems. Elucidation of the assembly patterns in such complex and interdependent communities may enable better prediction of environmental impacts across coral reef ecosystems. In this study, we investigated how ... | 436 |
39664056 | PMC11631926 | pmc | 1,369 | {
"abstract": "Underlying the thick sediment layer in ocean basins, the flow of seawater through the cracked and porous upper igneous crust supports a previously hidden and largely unexplored active subsurface microbial biome. Subseafloor crustal systems offer an enlarged surface area for microbial habitats and prolo... | 1,201 |
29970091 | PMC6029019 | pmc | 1,370 | {
"abstract": "Background High production cost of bioplastics polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) is a major obstacle to replace traditional petro-based plastics. To address the challenges, strategies towards upstream metabolic engineering and downstream fermentation optimizations have been continuously pursued. Given that t... | 5,527 |
28254477 | null | s2 | 1,372 | {
"abstract": "Fifty years ago, Lynn Margulis, inspiring in early twentieth-century ideas that put forward a symbiotic origin for some eukaryotic organelles, proposed a unified theory for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on symbiosis as evolutionary mechanism. Margulis was profoundly aware of the importance of... | 360 |
34204975 | PMC8199887 | pmc | 1,373 | {
"abstract": "Discovering novel bacterial strains might be the link to unlocking the value in lignocellulosic bio-refinery as we strive to find alternative and cleaner sources of energy. Bacteria display promise in lignocellulolytic breakdown because of their innate ability to adapt and grow under both optimum and e... | 2,361 |
38535654 | PMC10974313 | pmc | 1,375 | {
"abstract": "In pursuit of realizing neuromorphic computing devices, we demonstrated the high-performance synaptic functions on the top-to-bottom Au/ZnVO/Pt two-terminal ferroelectric Schottky junction (FSJ) device architecture. The active layer of ZnVO exhibited the ferroelectric characteristics because of the bro... | 8,771 |
30815030 | PMC6376720 | pmc | 1,376 | {
"abstract": "Lignin is the most abundant aromatic substrate on Earth and its valorization technologies are still under developed. Depolymerization and fragmentation are the predominant preparatory strategies for valorization of lignin to chemicals and fuels. However, due to the structural heterogeneity of lignin, d... | 1,169 |
38333584 | PMC10850570 | pmc | 1,377 | {
"abstract": "Introduction Ligninolytic bacteria can secrete extracellular enzymes to depolymerize lignin into small-molecular aromatics that are subsequently metabolized and funneled into the TCA cycle. Carbohydrates, which are the preferred carbon sources of bacteria, influence the metabolism of lignin-derived aro... | 6,988 |
27112228 | PMC5082532 | pmc | 1,378 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Formation of magnetite nanocrystals by magnetotactic bacteria is controlled by specific proteins which regulate the particles’ nucleation and growth. One such protein is Mms6. This small, amphiphilic protein can self‐assemble and bind ferric ions to aid in magnetite formation. To understand th... | 3,432 |
32974292 | PMC7471869 | pmc | 1,380 | {
"abstract": "Oxygenic photosynthesis conducted by cyanobacteria has dramatically transformed the geochemistry of our planet. These organisms have colonized most habitats, including extreme environments such as the driest warm desert on Earth: the Atacama Desert. In particular, cyanobacteria highly tolerant to desic... | 5,377 |
40287420 | PMC12033221 | pmc | 1,381 | {
"abstract": "Recent advances in our understanding of cyanobacterial photoacclimation have the potential to improve photosynthetic efficiency in crops. Whereas oxygenic photosynthesis typically relies on visible light, some cyanobacteria acclimate to absorb far-red light, thus expanding the absorbance cross-section ... | 179 |
38981048 | PMC11425989 | pmc | 1,384 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have become reliable green energy harvesters by converting biomechanical motions into electricity. However, the inevitable charge leakage and poor electric field (EF) of conventional TENG result in inferior tribo‐charge density on the active layer. In this ... | 10,042 |
34145392 | PMC8630106 | pmc | 1,387 | {
"abstract": "Methane-generating archaea drive the final step in anaerobic organic compound mineralization and dictate the carbon flow of Earth’s diverse anoxic ecosystems in the absence of inorganic electron acceptors. Although such Archaea were presumed to be restricted to life on simple compounds like hydrogen ... | 9,636 |
25717324 | PMC4324140 | pmc | 1,388 | {
"abstract": "Microbial syntrophy is a vital metabolic interaction necessary for the complete oxidation of organic biomass to methane in all-anaerobic ecosystems. However, this process is thermodynamically constrained and represents an ecosystem-level metabolic bottleneck. To gain insight into the physiology of this... | 6,947 |
22553907 | null | s2 | 1,390 | {
"abstract": "Microbial communities exhibit exquisitely complex structure. Many aspects of this complexity, from the number of species to the total number of interactions, are currently very difficult to examine directly. However, extraordinary efforts are being made to make these systems accessible to scientific in... | 269 |
38356583 | PMC10864967 | pmc | 1,391 | {
"abstract": "Red calcified non-geniculate coralline algae (NGCA) provide habitat structures, stabilize reef structures, and foster coral larval settlement and metamorphosis. Moreover, the microbes associated with NGCA are dependent on the NGCA host species and are affected by environmental factors; however, little ... | 4,177 |
31964899 | PMC6972901 | pmc | 1,392 | {
"abstract": "Smart surfaces in nature have been extensively studied to identify their hierarchical structures in micro-/nanoscale to elucidate their superhydrophobicity with varying water adhesion. However, mimicking hybrid features in multiscale requires complex, multi-step processes. Here, we proposed a one-step ... | 2,588 |
31226347 | null | s2 | 1,393 | {
"abstract": "Common strategies for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to chemical products center on deconstructing biomass polymers into fermentable sugars. Here, we demonstrate an alternative strategy, a growth-coupled, high-yield bioconversion, by feeding cells a non-sugar substrate, by-passing central metabo... | 495 |
22948815 | null | s2 | 1,394 | {
"abstract": "Bacteria frequently manifest distinct phenotypes as a function of cell density in a phenomenon known as quorum sensing (QS). This intercellular signalling process is mediated by \"chemical languages\" comprised of low-molecular weight signals, known as autoinducers, and their cognate receptor proteins.... | 371 |
24808467 | null | s2 | 1,397 | {
"abstract": "Echo state networks (ESNs) are a novel form of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) that provide an efficient and powerful computational model approximating nonlinear dynamical systems. A unique feature of an ESN is that a large number of neurons (the \"reservoir\") are used, whose synaptic connections are... | 304 |
38622932 | PMC11072679 | pmc | 1,399 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Connecting genes to phenotypic traits in bacteria is often challenging because of a lack of environmental context in laboratory settings. Laboratory-based model ecosystems offer a means to better account for environmental conditions compared with standard planktonic cultures and can help link ... | 3,657 |
22347219 | PMC3271277 | pmc | 1,400 | {
"abstract": "In this study, both culture-dependent and culture-independent methods were used to determine whether the iron sulfide mineral- and nitrate-rich freshwater nature reserve Het Zwart Water accommodates anoxic microbial iron cycling. Molecular analyses (16S rRNA gene clone library and fluorescence in situ... | 2,946 |
32904523 | PMC7455116 | pmc | 1,402 | {
"abstract": "This first-attempt study deciphered combined characteristics of species evolution and bioelectricity generation of microbial community in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) supplemented with Camellia green tea (GT) extracts for biomass energy extraction. Prior studies indicated that polyphenols-rich extract... | 7,758 |
39248369 | PMC11586697 | pmc | 1,403 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Interacting with living systems typically involves the ability to address lipid membranes of cellular systems. The first step of interaction of a nanorobot with a cell will thus be the detection of binding to a lipid membrane. Utilizing DNA origami, we engineered a biosensor with single‐molecu... | 7,997 |
27065782 | PMC4814530 | pmc | 1,405 | {
"abstract": "The development of power-efficient neuromorphic devices presents the challenge of designing spike pattern classification algorithms which can be implemented on low-precision hardware and can also achieve state-of-the-art performance. In our pursuit of meeting this challenge, we present a pattern classi... | 6,429 |
36713314 | PMC9802364 | pmc | 1,406 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Droplet spreading and transport phenomenon is ubiquitous and has been studied by engineered surfaces with a variety of topographic features. To obtain a directional bias in dynamic wetting, hydrophobic surfaces with a geometrical asymmetry are generally used, attributing the directionality to ... | 12,889 |
35494704 | PMC9047967 | pmc | 1,408 | {
"abstract": "The superhydrophobic properties of biological surfaces in nature have attracted extensive attention in scientific and industrial circles. Relative to the rolling superhydrophobic state of lotus leaves, the adhesive superhydrophobic state of geckos and Parthenocissus tricuspidata is also significant i... | 1,704 |
22882172 | null | s2 | 1,409 | {
"abstract": "Many bacteria organize themselves into structurally complex communities known as biofilms in which the cells are held together by an extracellular matrix. In general, the amount of extracellular matrix is related to the robustness of the biofilm. Yet, the specific signals that regulate the synthesis of... | 281 |
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