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PMC8928408
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{ "abstract": "Synthetic chemical fertilizers are a fundamental source of nutrition for agricultural crops; however, their limited availability, low plant uptake, and excessive application have caused severe ecological imbalances. In addition, the gravity of environmental stresses, such as salinity and water stress, ...
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PMC10173534
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Lignocellulosic biomass is an attractive non-food feedstock for lactic acid production via microbial conversion due to its abundance and low-price, which can alleviate the conflict with food supplies. However, a variety of inhibitors derived from the biomass pretreatment processes repress microbial gro...
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PMC10562416
pmc
1,550
{ "abstract": "Memristive devices that rely on redox-based resistive switching mechanism have attracted great attention for the development of next-generation memory and computing architectures. However, a detailed understanding of the relationship between involved materials, interfaces, and device functionalities st...
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{ "abstract": "Major ampullate (dragline) spider silk is a coveted biopolymer due to its combination of strength and extensibility. The dragline silk of different spiders have distinct mechanical properties that can be qualitatively correlated to the protein sequence. This study uses amino acid analysis and carbon-13...
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PMC11974898
pmc
1,554
{ "abstract": "The metabolic activity of microbial communities is essential for host and environmental health, influencing processes from immune regulation to bioremediation. Given this importance, the rational design of microbiomes with targeted functional properties is an important objective. Designing microbial co...
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PMC9974066
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Memristors\nare candidate devices for constructing artificial neurons,\nsynapses, and computational networks for brainlike information processing\nand sensory-motor autonomous systems. However, the dynamics of natural\nneurons and synapses are challenging and cannot be well reproduced\nwith standard el...
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PMC10965485
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, a reduction of arable land area and the dependence of first and second generation biotechnology feedstocks on agricultural products, call for alternative, sustainable feedstock sources for industrial applications. The direct use of CO 2 or conversion of CO...
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33922571
PMC8122867
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Reservoir computing (RC) is an attractive paradigm of a recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture, owning to the ease of training and existing neuromorphic implementation. Its simulated performance matches other digital algorithms on a series of benchmarking tasks, such as prediction tasks and classi...
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23346384
PMC3548177
pmc
1,561
{ "abstract": "This work is devoted to the investigation of the methanogenic archaea involved in\nanaerobic digestion of cattle manure and maize straw on the basis of terminal\nrestriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of archaeal 16S rRNA\ngenes. The biological diversity and dynamics of methanogenic...
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30271948
PMC6123781
pmc
1,562
{ "abstract": "The microbial production of fine chemicals provides a promising biosustainable manufacturing solution that has led to the successful production of a growing catalog of natural products and high-value chemicals. However, development at industrial levels has been hindered by the large resource investment...
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PMC9581835
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is a microbially produced biopolymer that is emerging as a propitious alternative to petroleum-based plastics owing to its biodegradable and biocompatible properties. However, to date, the relatively high costs related to the PHB production process are hampering its widesp...
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PMC7617567
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{ "abstract": "Abstract To better understand how the biocatalyzed depolymerization of polyesters works, model molecules are needed to develop activity assays and determine enzymatic kinetic parameters. In this communication the chemical synthesis and characterization of 2‐hydroxyethyl furan‐5‐carboxylic acid and bis(...
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PMC11044582
pmc
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{ "abstract": "A three-terminal\nmemristor with an ultrasmall footprint of only\n0.07 μm 2 and critical dimensions of 70 nm ×\n10 nm × 6 nm is introduced. The device’s feature is the\npresence of a gate contact, which enables two operation modes: either\ntuning the set voltage or directly inducing a resistance chang...
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{ "abstract": "Characterizing the diverse, root-associated fungi in mine wastes can accelerate the development of bioremediation strategies to stabilize heavy metals. Ascomycota fungi are well known for their mutualistic associations with plant roots and, separately, for roles in the accumulation of toxic compounds f...
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{ "abstract": "Characterizing the diverse, root-associated fungi in mine wastes can accelerate the development of bioremediation strategies to stabilize heavy metals. Ascomycota fungi are well known for their mutualistic associations with plant roots and, separately, for roles in the accumulation of toxic compounds f...
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{ "abstract": "Characterizing the diverse, root-associated fungi in mine wastes can accelerate the development of bioremediation strategies to stabilize heavy metals. Ascomycota fungi are well known for their mutualistic associations with plant roots and, separately, for roles in the accumulation of toxic compounds f...
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PMC8378938
pmc
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Marine sponges play a major ecological role in recycling resources on coral reef ecosystems. The cycling of resources may largely depend on the stability of the host–microbiome interactions and their susceptibility to altered environmental conditions. Given the current coral to algal phase shi...
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PMC4865656
pmc
1,572
{ "abstract": "Trade-off between reproducibility of neuronal activities and computational efficiency is one of crucial subjects in computational neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering. A wide variety of neuronal models have been studied from different viewpoints. The digital spiking silicon neuron (DSSN) model is ...
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PMC4641648
pmc
1,573
{ "abstract": "Insect societies are complex systems, displaying emergent properties much greater than the sum of their individual parts. As such, the concept of these societies as single ‘superorganisms’ is widely applied to describe their organisation and biology. Here, we test the applicability of this concept to t...
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{ "abstract": "Neuromorphic computing uses basic principles inspired by the brain to design circuits that perform artificial intelligence tasks with superior energy efficiency. Traditional approaches have been limited by the energy area of artificial neurons and synapses realized with conventional electronic devices....
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PMC4820372
pmc
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{ "abstract": "During their early life stage as planktonic larvae, reef-building corals do not rely on their photosynthesizing symbionts for nutrition.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION In (sub)tropical shallow-water reefs, most scleractinian corals live in mutualistic endosymbiosis with dinoflagellates of the genus ...
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PMC7695907
pmc
1,578
{ "abstract": "Anaerobic digestion was one of the first bioenergy strategies developed, yet the interactions of the microbial community that is responsible for the production of methane are still poorly understood. For example, it has only recently been recognized that the bacteria that oxidize organic waste componen...
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PMC5067608
pmc
1,579
{ "abstract": "The Opalinus Clay formation will host geological nuclear waste repositories in Switzerland. It is expected that gas pressure will build-up due to hydrogen production from steel corrosion, jeopardizing the integrity of the engineered barriers. In an in situ experiment located in the Mont Terri Undergr...
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PMC10542533
pmc
1,580
{ "abstract": "DNA origami nanodevices achieve programmable structure and tunable mechanical and dynamic properties by leveraging the sequence specific interactions of nucleic acids. Previous advances have also established DNA origami as a useful building block to make well-defined micron-scale structures through hie...
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32836883
PMC7428693
pmc
1,583
{ "abstract": "Graphical abstract", "conclusion": "6 Conclusions and future perspectives The review gives an overall idea about the fabrication and application of graphene based superhydrophobic surfaces. The effectiveness of superhydrophobic coatings and the advantages of graphene and its derivatives in the enhanc...
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PMC5656427
pmc
1,584
{ "abstract": "Memristive devices help address the binding problem: Their memory supports a transient connectivity in oscillator networks.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION Consciousness and perception are, without doubt, one of the most fascinating functionalities of the human brain and result from massively paralle...
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PMC8964061
pmc
1,585
{ "abstract": "Liquid State Machines (LSMs) are computing reservoirs composed of recurrently connected Spiking Neural Networks which have attracted research interest for their modeling capacity of biological structures and as promising pattern recognition tools suitable for their implementation in neuromorphic proces...
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{ "abstract": "Biological conversion of natural gas to liquids (Bio-GTL) represents an immense economic opportunity. In nature, aerobic methanotrophic bacteria and anaerobic archaea are able to selectively oxidize methane using methane monooxygenase (MMO) and methyl coenzyme M reductase (MCR) enzymes. Although signif...
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PMC11942833
pmc
1,587
{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are considered crucial for the survival of many endangered plant species. However, the dynamics of AMF communities in the roots and rhizosphere soil of Heptacodium miconioides , particularly along elevation gradients, remain underexplored. This study investigates AMF...
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PMC4416025
pmc
1,588
{ "abstract": "Hydrogen gas functions as a key component in the metabolism of a wide variety of microorganisms, often acting as either a fermentative end-product or an energy source. The number of organisms reported to utilize hydrogen continues to grow, contributing to and expanding our knowledge of biological hydro...
3,622
22355753
PMC3270498
pmc
1,589
{ "abstract": "Climate change driven increases in intensity and frequency of both hot and cold extreme events contribute to coral reef decline by causing widespread coral bleaching and mortality. Here, we show that hot and cold temperature changes cause distinct physiological responses on different time scales in ree...
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{ "abstract": "In nature, DNA molecules carry the hereditary information. But DNA has physical and chemical properties that make it attractive for uses beyond heredity. In this Review, we discuss the potential of DNA for creating machines that are both encoded by and built from DNA molecules. We review the main metho...
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PMC4529744
pmc
1,591
{ "abstract": "Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology are synergistically related fields for manipulating target pathways and designing microorganisms that can act as chemical factories. Saccharomyces cerevisiae ’s ideal bioprocessing traits make yeast a very attractive chemical factory for production of fuels,...
2,112
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PMC9570626
pmc
1,592
{ "abstract": "Reinforcement learning (RL) trains an agent by maximizing the sum of a discounted reward. Since the discount factor has a critical effect on the learning performance of the RL agent, it is important to choose the discount factor properly. When uncertainties are involved in the training, the learning pe...
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PMC10165451
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1,593
{ "abstract": "Summary Standardized assays have greatly advanced the understanding of multicellular bacterial biofilms, but they lack cell-scale detail. Here, we present a fluorescence-based protocol that builds on past assays to reveal the cellular-scale arrangement within biofilms. We describe steps for growing bio...
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PMC7838310
pmc
1,594
{ "abstract": "The Scleractinian corals Orbicella annularis and O. faveolata have survived by acclimatizing to environmental changes in water depth and sea surface temperature (SST). However, the complex physiological mechanisms by which this is achieved remain only partially understood, limiting the accurate pre...
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PMC10358715
pmc
1,595
{ "abstract": "We present the extremophilic bacterium Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV as a platform for the recovery of rare earth elements (REE). Strain SolV is able to selectively extract the light REE from artificial industrial waste sources, natural REE-containing and post-mining waters. Upscaling, differen...
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PMC10586088
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1,596
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT The next milestone of synthetic biology research relies on the development of customized microbes for specific industrial purposes. Metabolic pathways of an organism, for example, depict its chemical repertoire and its genetic makeup. If genes controlling such pathways can be identified, scien...
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PMC9419774
pmc
1,599
{ "abstract": "Memristive devices are widely recognized as promising hardware implementations of neuromorphic computing. Herein, a flexible and transparent memristive synapse based on polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)/N-doped carbon quantum dot (NCQD) nanocomposites through regulating the NCQD doping concentration is report...
5,473
35756965
PMC9194759
pmc
1,600
{ "abstract": "Bacterial communities form biofilms on various surfaces by synthesizing a cohesive and protective extracellular matrix, and these biofilms protect microorganisms against harsh environmental conditions. Bacillus subtilis is a widely used experimental species, and its biofilms are used as representativ...
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PMC3962205
pmc
1,601
{ "abstract": "Biomimetic design of new materials uses nature as antetype, learning from billions of years of evolution. This work emphasizes the mechanical and tribological properties of skin, combining both hardness and wear resistance of its surface (the stratum corneum) with high elasticity of the bulk (epidermis...
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PMC5580877
pmc
1,602
{ "abstract": "Spectral conversion of light enhances algal photosynthesis and enables technologies for sustainable energy and food production.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION Global climate change and impending resource scarcity increasingly make the transition to a bio-based economy a matter of urgency ( 1 ). Phyt...
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PMC5635113
pmc
1,603
{ "abstract": "Bacterial adaptation is accelerated by the acquisition of novel traits through horizontal gene transfer, but the integration of these genes affects genome organization. We found that transferred genes are concentrated in only ~1% of the chromosomal regions (hotspots) in 80 bacterial species. This conce...
3,120
26039595
PMC4454141
pmc
1,604
{ "abstract": "Recent experimental and observational data have revealed that the internal structures of collective animal groups are not fixed in time. Rather, individuals can produce noise continuously within their group. These individuals’ movements on the inside of the group, which appear to collapse the global or...
2,034
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PMC7093453
pmc
1,606
{ "abstract": "Natural photosynthesis can be divided between the chlorophyll-containing plants, algae and cyanobacteria that make up the oxygenic phototrophs and a diversity of bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacteria that make up the anoxygenic phototrophs. Photosynthetic light harvesting and reaction centre proteins...
3,617
26710855
PMC4758253
pmc
1,607
{ "abstract": "Organisms respond to environmental variation partly through changes in gene expression, which underlie both homeostatic and acclimatory responses to environmental stress. In some cases, so many genes change in expression in response to different influences that understanding expression patterns for all...
4,218
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PMC4906156
pmc
1,608
{ "abstract": "Life arose in a world without oxygen and the first organisms were anaerobes. Here we investigate the gene repertoire of the prokaryote common ancestor, estimating which genes it contained and to which lineages of modern prokaryotes it was most similar in terms of gene content. Using a phylogenetic appr...
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{ "abstract": "Silk fibroin is a natural polymer with a unique repetitive structure that translates to extraordinary properties in terms of processability and mechanical properties. The " }
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PMC4928977
pmc
1,610
{ "abstract": "Oleophobic surfaces capable of power-free self-transportation of oil droplets are designed.", "conclusion": "CONCLUSION We have demonstrated directional self-transportation of oil droplets on oleophobic surfaces composed of radially arrayed undercut stripes. Moreover, three modes of droplet motion ar...
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26692897
PMC4676187
pmc
1,611
{ "abstract": "Synthesis gas (syngas) is a gas mixture consisting mainly of H 2 , CO, and CO 2 and can be derived from different sources, including renewable materials like lignocellulose. The fermentation of syngas to certain biofuels, using acetogenic bacteria, has attracted more and more interest over the last ye...
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35187859
PMC9009134
pmc
1,612
{ "abstract": "Abstract Flexible triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have attracted increasing interest since their advent in 2012. In comparison with other flexible electrodes, hydrogels possess transparency, stretchability, biocompatibility, and tunable ionic conductivity, which together provide great potential as...
1,368
37744148
PMC10512229
pmc
1,613
{ "abstract": "About 90% of all land plants form mycorrhiza to facilitate the acquisition of essential nutrients such as phosphorus, nitrogen, and sometimes carbon. Based on the morphology of the interaction and the identity of the interacting plants and fungi, four major mycorrhizal types have been distinguished: ar...
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PMC11727241
pmc
1,614
{ "abstract": "Abstract The memristor has recently demonstrated considerable potential in the field of large‐scale data information processing. Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have emerged as the leading contenders for memristors due to their sensitive optoelectronic response, low power consumption, and ability to be...
6,347
24379809
PMC3863755
pmc
1,615
{ "abstract": "Microorganisms capable of reducing or oxidizing structural iron (Fe) in Fe-bearing phyllosilicate minerals were enriched and isolated from a subsurface redox transition zone at the Hanford 300 Area site in eastern Washington, USA. Both conventional and in situ “i-chip” enrichment strategies were employ...
6,366
25502908
PMC4986457
pmc
1,616
{ "abstract": "Methanogens are methane-producing archaea that plays a key role in the global carbon cycle. To date, the evolutionary history of methanogens and closely related nonmethanogen species remains unresolved among studies conducted upon different genetic markers, attributing to horizontal gene transfers (HGT...
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27074334
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s2
1,617
{ "abstract": "As coral bleaching events become more frequent and intense, our ability to predict and mitigate future events depends upon our capacity to interpret patterns within previous episodes. Responses to thermal stress vary among coral species; however the diversity of coral assemblages, environmental conditi...
528
19747389
PMC2758838
pmc
1,618
{ "abstract": "Background Mesophotic corals (light-dependent corals in the deepest half of the photic zone at depths of 30 - 150 m) provide a unique opportunity to study the limits of the interactions between corals and endosymbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium . We sampled Leptoseris spp. in Hawaii ...
1,903
21957432
PMC3161195
pmc
1,620
{ "abstract": "Evolutionary neural networks, or neuroevolution, appear to be a promising way to build versatile adaptive systems, combining evolution and learning. One of the most challenging problems of neuroevolution is finding a scalable and robust genetic representation, which would allow to effectively grow incr...
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35335443
PMC8955187
pmc
1,622
{ "abstract": "The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has emerged as a novel energy technology that converts mechanical energy from surrounding environments to electricity. The TENG fabricated from environmentally friendly materials would encourage the development of next-generation energy technologies that are green...
1,601
24253402
PMC3834362
pmc
1,623
{ "abstract": "This study explores how contact angle hysteresis and titling angle relate with stickiness on superhydrophobic surfaces. The result indicates that contact angle hysteresis could not be mentioned as a proper factor to evaluate the surface stickiness. By analyzing the system pinning force of droplet place...
1,439
34755087
PMC8564057
pmc
1,625
{ "abstract": "Summary Skin-like electronics are developing rapidly to realize a variety of applications such as wearable sensing and soft robotics. Hydrogels, as soft biomaterials, have been studied intensively for skin-like electronic utilities due to their unique features such as softness, wetness, biocompatibilit...
3,486
30778064
PMC6379389
pmc
1,626
{ "abstract": "Replicating nacre’s multiscale architecture represents a promising approach to design artificial materials with outstanding rigidity and toughness. It is highly desirable yet challenging to incorporate self-healing and shape-programming capabilities into nacre-mimetic composites due to their rigidity a...
1,210
37744860
PMC10515177
pmc
1,628
{ "abstract": "Laser processing is a simple way to obtain hydrophobic\nor even\nsuperhydrophobic properties of metal surfaces. However, preparation\nof superhydrophilic surfaces by this method, the properties of which\ndo not change under the influence of various factors, remains a difficult\ntask. In this work, we s...
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{ "abstract": "The reservoir computing networks (RCNs) have been successfully employed as a tool in learning and complex decision-making tasks. Despite their efficiency and low training cost, practical applications of RCNs rely heavily on empirical design. In this article, we develop an algorithm to design RCNs using...
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{ "abstract": "Contrary to multicellular organisms that display segmentation during development, communities of unicellular organisms are believed to be devoid of such sophisticated patterning. Unexpectedly, we find that the gene expression underlying the nitrogen stress response of a developing Bacillus subtilis bio...
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PMC9418559
pmc
1,631
{ "abstract": "Hierarchical structures in nature provide unique functions for living organisms that can inspire technology. Nanoscale hierarchical structured surfaces are essential to realize the dual functions of non-wetting and transparency for applications such as cover glasses and windows; however, these structur...
9,029
24915445
PMC4051588
pmc
1,632
{ "abstract": "Elizabeth Sattely, Anne Osbourn, and colleagues discuss in this Essay four long-standing challenges in plant metabolic engineering: to create plants that provide their own nitrogen, have improved nutrient content, function better as biofuels, and have increased photosynthetic efficiency.", "conclusio...
1,277
36129892
PMC9491537
pmc
1,633
{ "abstract": "Equipped with a novel isolator-housed metabolic cage system, a study in PLOS Biology assessed how the metabolism of mice harboring a defined minimal microbial community (OligoMM12) differs from that of germ-free and conventionally colonized mice." }
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PMC9588965
pmc
1,635
{ "abstract": "Microalgae have high lipid accumulation capacity, high growth rate and high photosynthetic efficiency which are considered as one of the most promising alternative sustainable feedstocks for producing lipid-based biofuels. However, commercialization feasibility of microalgal biofuel production is still...
1,732
28386026
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1,636
{ "abstract": "Bacteria within communities can interact to organize their behavior. It has been unclear whether such interactions can extend beyond a single community to coordinate the behavior of distant populations. We discovered that two " }
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PMC3368814
pmc
1,637
{ "abstract": "A DNA capsule fitted with aptamer controlled target sensing has been “woven” using a 7308-base single-stranded DNA “thread” and 196 staple oligonucleotides. The capsule enables logic-gated molecular cargo delivery to targeted cell surfaces." }
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PMC11487609
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{ "abstract": "Abstract With the widespread adoption of metagenomic sequencing, new perspectives have emerged for studying microbial ecological networks, yielding metabolic evidence of interspecies interactions that traditional co‐occurrence networks cannot infer. This protocol introduces the integrated Network Analy...
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{ "abstract": "Mutualism is ubiquitous in nature and plays an integral role in most communities. To predict the eco-evolutionary dynamics of mutualism it is critical to extend classic pair-wise analysis to include additional species. We investigated the effect of adding a third species to a pair-wise mutualism in a s...
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{ "abstract": "Tropical reefs are shifting from coral to macroalgal dominance, with macroalgae suppressing coral recovery, potentially via effects on coral microbiomes. Understanding how macroalgae affect corals and their microbiomes requires comparing algae- versus coral-dominated reefs without confounding aspects o...
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PMC6119820
pmc
1,643
{ "abstract": "Metalliferous mine tailings have a negative impact on the soil environment near mining areas and render cultivable lands infertile. Phytoremediation involving the synergism of legume and rhizobia provides a useful technique in tackling this issue with cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and easy-...
5,264
30555446
PMC6284035
pmc
1,644
{ "abstract": "Ammonia inhibition is an important reason for reactor failures and economic losses in anaerobic digestion. Its impact on acetic acid degradation is well-studied, while its effect on propionic and butyric acid degradation has received little attention and is consequently not considered in the Anaerobic ...
5,737
34113807
PMC8169794
pmc
1,645
{ "abstract": "Summary Controllable IR-reflection systems can be applied to displays, adaptive military camouflages, thermal managements, and many other fields. However, current reported controllable IR-reflection systems suffer from utilizing rigid materials, complicated devices, or high working temperature/voltage,...
1,598
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PMC8861010
pmc
1,646
{ "abstract": "Although numerous dinoflagellate species (Family Symbiodiniaceae) are present in coral reef environments, Acropora corals tend to select a single species, Symbiodinium microadriaticum, in early life stages, even though this species is rarely found in mature colonies. In order to identify molecular ...
3,711
40055539
PMC11961364
pmc
1,647
{ "abstract": "Many biological tissues are mechanically strong and stiff but can still heal from damage. By contrast, synthetic hydrogels have not shown comparable combinations of properties, as current stiffening approaches inevitably suppress the required chain/bond dynamics for self-healing. Here we show a stiff a...
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{ "abstract": "Agent-based models of 'flocking' and 'schooling' have shown that a weighted average of neighbor velocities, with weights that decay gradually with distance, yields emergent collective motion. Weighted averaging thus offers a potential mechanism of self-organization that recruits an increasing, but self...
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{ "abstract": "Many bacteria use membrane-diffusible small molecule quorum signals to coordinate gene transcription in response to changes in cell density, known as quorum sensing (QS). Among these, acyl-homoserine lactones (AHL) are widely distributed in " }
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35515474
PMC9054071
pmc
1,650
{ "abstract": "Creating a robust omniphobic surface that repels various liquids would have broad technological implications for areas ranging from biomedical devices and fuel transport to architecture. The present omniphobic surfaces still have the problems of complex fabrication methods, high cost, and being environ...
7,421
36638177
PMC9839323
pmc
1,651
{ "abstract": "All dielectric materials including ceramics, semiconductors, biomaterials, and polymers have the property of flexoelectricity, which opens a fertile avenue to sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting by a broad range of materials. However, the flexoelectricity of solids is weak at the macroscale. Here...
1,419
33574827
PMC7870699
pmc
1,653
{ "abstract": "Studies in natural ecosystems show that adaptation of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and other microbial plant symbionts to local environmental conditions can help ameliorate stress and optimize plant fitness. This local adaptation arises from the process of multilevel selection, which is the simult...
1,002
33447820
PMC7798468
pmc
1,654
{ "abstract": "Interspecies interactions in bacterial biofilms have important impacts on the composition and function of communities in natural and engineered systems. To investigate these interactions, synthetic communities provide experimentally tractable systems. Biofilms grown on agar-surfaces have been used for ...
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39391734
PMC11466649
pmc
1,655
{ "abstract": "Summary Nitrogen (N) is the most limiting nutrient in agroecosystems, and its indiscriminate application is at the center of the environmental challenges facing agriculture. To solve this dilemma, crops’ nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) needs to increase – in other words, more of the applied nitrogen need...
2,332
37124007
PMC10142452
pmc
1,657
{ "abstract": "This research explores a novel two-terminal heterostructure of the Pt/Cu 2 Se/Sb 2 Se 3 /FTO memristor, which exhibited essential biological synaptic functions. These synaptic functions play a critical role in emulating biological neural systems and overcoming the limitations of traditional computing a...
8,670
29997336
PMC6071141
pmc
1,659
{ "abstract": "Regenerated silk (RS) is a protein-based “biopolymer” that enables the design of new materials; here, we called “bionic” the process of regenerated silk production by a fermentation-assisted method. Based on yeast’s fermentation, here we produced a living hybrid composite made of regenerated silk nanof...
4,720
27801294
PMC5088516
pmc
1,660
{ "abstract": "Background Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are a unique group of prokaryotes that have a potentially high impact on global geochemical cycling of significant primary elements because of their metabolic plasticity and the ability to biomineralize iron-rich magnetic particles called magnetosomes. Understand...
9,951
39757431
PMC11817952
pmc
1,661
{ "abstract": "Abstract Plasmonics and superhydrophobicity have garnered broad interest from academics and industry alike, spanning fundamental scientific inquiry and practical technological applications. Plasmonic activity and superhydrophobicity rely heavily on nanostructured surfaces, providing opportunities for t...
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PMC9728908
pmc
1,665
{ "abstract": "Inspired by self-assembled biological growth, the Circuit Tile Assembly Model (cTAM) was developed to provide insights into signal propagation, information processing, and computation in bioelectric networks. The cTAM is an abstract model that produces a family of circuits of different sizes that is am...
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21691792
PMC3136707
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1,666
{ "abstract": "The need to develop and improve sustainable energy resources is of eminent importance due to the finite nature of our fossil fuels. This review paper deals with a third generation renewable energy resource which does not compete with our food resources, cyanobacteria. We discuss the current state of th...
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39838449
PMC11753057
pmc
1,668
{ "abstract": "This study explores the use of conductive material in scaling up anaerobic digestion for enhanced biogas production. Focusing on Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer (DIET), the research employs a syntrophic DIET-able consortium formed by Shewanella oneidensis and Methanosarcina barkerii in 3.8-L ...
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22028591
PMC3197265
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{ "abstract": "Insecurity in the supply of fossil fuels, volatile fuel prices, and major concerns regarding climate change have sparked renewed interest in the production of fuels from renewable resources. Because of this, the use of biodiesel has grown dramatically during the last few years and is expected to increa...
1,675
32444627
PMC7244743
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1,670
{ "abstract": "The mutualistic association between leguminous plants and endosymbiotic rhizobial bacteria is a paradigmatic example of a symbiosis driven by metabolic exchanges. Here, we report the reconstruction and modelling of a genome-scale metabolic network of Medicago truncatula (plant) nodulated by Sinorhiz...
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36874510
PMC9979088
pmc
1,671
{ "abstract": "Environmental sustainability is an increasingly important issue in industry. As an environmentally friendly and sustainable way, constructing microbial cell factories to produce all kinds of valuable products has attracted more and more attention. In the process of constructing microbial cell factories...
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30693008
PMC6339933
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{ "abstract": "The implementation of sustainable agriculture encompasses practices enhancing the activity of beneficial soil microorganisms, able to modulate biogeochemical soil cycles and to affect soil fertility. Among them, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) establish symbioses with the roots of most food crops an...
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40087381
PMC11909208
pmc
1,675
{ "abstract": "The capacity of photosynthetic microorganisms to fix carbon dioxide into biomass positions them as promising cell factories for sustainable biomanufacturing. However, limitations in screening throughput hinder the identification of enzymes, strains, and growth conditions needed to realize this potentia...
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{ "abstract": "A specific and reversible method is reported to engineer cell-membrane function by embedding DNA-origami nanodevices onto the cell surface. Robust membrane functionalization across epithelial, mesenchymal, and nonadherent immune cells is achieved with DNA nanoplatforms that enable functions including t...
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PMC6198993
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1,678
{ "abstract": "Ants, termites and humans often form well-organized and highly efficient trails between different locations. Yet the microscopic traffic rules responsible for this organization and efficiency are not fully understood. In previous experimental studies with leaf-cutting ants ( Atta colombica ), a set of ...
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