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{ "abstract": "The programmed construction of functional\nsynthetic cells requires\nspatial control over arrays of biomolecules within the cytomimetic\nenvironment. The mimicry of the natural hierarchical assembly of biomolecules\nremains challenging due to the lack of an appropriate molecular toolbox.\nHerein, we re...
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PMC9993237
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{ "abstract": "Catechol-based hydrogels have good adhesion properties; however, since the concentration of catechol is low and it can be easily oxidized to quinone, the adhesion performance of the hydrogels is reduced, which limits their application as self-adhesive flexible wearable sensors. In this work, a dopamine...
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{ "abstract": "Hydrogels with tunable properties are highly desirable in tissue engineering applications as they can serve as artificial extracellular matrix to control cellular fate processes, including adhesion, migration, differentiation, and other phenotypic changes via matrix induced mechanotransduction. Poly(" ...
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PMC7007895
pmc
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{ "abstract": "As photosynthetic microbes, cyanobacteria are attractive hosts for the production of high-value molecules from CO 2 and light. Strategies for genetic engineering and tightly controlled gene expression are essential for the biotechnological application of these organisms. Numerous heterologous or nativ...
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PMC8164909
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{ "abstract": "Self-assembled supramolecular structures in living cells and their dynamics underlie various cellular events, such as endocytosis, cell migration, intracellular transport, cell metabolism, and gene expression. Spatiotemporally regulated association/dissociation and generation/degradation of assembly co...
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PMC11803306
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
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PMC11803306
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
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PMC11803306
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
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PMC11803306
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
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PMC11803306
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
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PMC11803306
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,604
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,604
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,604
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,604
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
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PMC11803306
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
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PMC11803306
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
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PMC11803306
pmc
6,605
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
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PMC11803306
pmc
6,605
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
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PMC11803306
pmc
6,605
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
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PMC11803306
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,606
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
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PMC11803306
pmc
6,606
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,606
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,606
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,607
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,607
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,607
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
39917963
PMC11803306
pmc
6,607
{ "abstract": "Abstract Reference genomes are key resources in biodiversity conservation. Yet, sequencing efforts are not evenly distributed across the tree of life raising concerns over our ability to enlighten conservation with genomic data. Good-quality reference genomes remain scarce in octocorals while these spe...
2,586
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PMC11429942
pmc
6,608
{ "abstract": "Most of Earth’s iron is mineral-bound, but it is unclear how and to what extent iron-oxidizing microbes can use solid minerals as electron donors. A prime candidate for studying mineral-oxidizing growth and pathways is Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1, a robust, facultative iron oxidizer with multipl...
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PMC11121894
pmc
6,609
{ "abstract": "Synthetic polymers, commonly known as plastics, are currently present in all aspects of our lives. Although they are useful, they present the problem of what to do with them after their lifespan. There are currently mechanical and chemical methods to treat plastics, but these are methods that, among ot...
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PMC10086821
pmc
6,610
{ "abstract": "Abstract Biofilms are multicellular, often surface‐associated, communities of autonomous cells. Their formation is the natural mode of growth of up to 80% of microorganisms living on this planet. Biofilms refractory towards antimicrobial agents and the actions of the immune system due to their toleranc...
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PMC7427070
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background Acid pretreatment is a common strategy used to break down the hemicellulose component of the lignocellulosic biomass to release pentoses, and a subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis step is usually applied to release hexoses from the cellulose. The hydrolysate after pretreatment and enzymatic hydr...
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PMC6605018
pmc
6,613
{ "abstract": "A thorough understanding of the services provided by microorganisms to the agricultural ecosystem is integral to understanding how management systems can improve or deteriorate soil health and production over the long term. Yet it is hampered by the difficulty in measuring the intersection of plant, mi...
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PMC6522473
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms are composed of exopolysaccharides (EPS), exogenous DNA, and proteins that hold these communities together. P. aeruginosa produces lectins LecA and LecB, which possess affinities towards sugars found in matrix EPS and mediate adherence of P. aeruginosa to target hos...
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PMC11657226
pmc
6,615
{ "abstract": "Background Biorefineries usually focus on the production of low-value commodities, such as bioethanol, platform chemicals or single cell protein. Shifting production to bioactive compounds, such as antimicrobial peptides, could provide an opportunity to increase the economic viability of biorefineries....
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PMC10945018
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Soil microorganisms play an important role in regulating and contributing to carbon cycling processes in grassland ecosystems. Soil salinization is one of the major problems causing soil degradation, and its effects on carbon cycle immobilization-related functional genes in soil microorganisms remain u...
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PMC11662647
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract \n Corynebacterium glutamicum is a key industrial workhorse for producing amino acids and high-value chemicals. Balancing metabolic flow between cell growth and product synthesis is crucial for enhancing production efficiency. Developing dynamic, broadly applicable, and minimally toxic gene r...
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{ "abstract": "Protein-based materials have emerged as a powerful instrument for a new generation of biological materials, with many chemical and mechanical capabilities. Through the manipulation of DNA, researchers can design proteins at the molecular level, engineering a vast array of structural building blocks. Ho...
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PMC6370833
pmc
6,619
{ "abstract": "Microalga is a promising biomass feedstock to restore the global carbon balance and produce sustainable bioenergy. However, the present biomass productivity of microalgae is not high enough to be marketable mainly because of the inefficient utilization of solar energy. Here, we study optical engineerin...
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PMC8913661
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Electronic skins (e-skins) are devices that can respond to mechanical stimuli and enable robots to perceive their surroundings. A great challenge for existing e-skins is that they may easily fail under extreme mechanical conditions due to their multilayered architecture with mechanical mismatch and wea...
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PMC11931477
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Developing scaffolds\nfor three-dimensional (3D) cell culture and\ntissue regeneration with biopolymers requires the creation of an optimal\nnanobiointerface. This interface must possess suitable surface chemistry,\nbiomechanical properties, and fibrillar morphology across nano- to\nmicroscale levels t...
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PMC9121345
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Biocatalysis in flow\nreactor systems is of increasing importance\nfor the transformation of the chemical industry. However, the necessary\nimmobilization of biocatalysts remains a challenge. We here demonstrate\nthat biogenic magnetic nanoparticles, so-called magnetosomes, represent\nan attractive alt...
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PMC8184982
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Nutrient amendment diminished bacterial functional diversity, consolidating carbon flow through fewer bacterial taxa. Here, we show strong differences in the bacterial taxa responsible for respiration from four ecosystems, indicating the potential for taxon-specific control over soil carbon cycling. Tr...
6,501
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PMC9081488
pmc
6,625
{ "abstract": "The profitability of next-generation biorefineries is acutely contingent on the discovery and utilization of biocatalysts that can valorize lignin. To this end, the metabolic catalogues of diverse microbiota have been mined previously using functional metagenomics in order to identify biocatalysts that...
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PMC10741702
pmc
6,626
{ "abstract": "This article supports the relevance of modeling new bioinspired properties in rate-coding artificial neurons, focusing on fundamental neural properties rarely implemented thus far in artificial neurons, such as intrinsic plasticity, the metaplasticity of synaptic strength, and the lateral inhibition of...
5,048
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PMC8193633
pmc
6,627
{ "abstract": "The cell-surface\nglycocalyx serves as a physiological barrier regulating\ncellular accessibility to macromolecules and other cells. Conventional\nglycocalyx characterization has largely been morphological rather\nthan functional. Here, we demonstrated direct glycocalyx anchoring\nof DNA origami nanoti...
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PMC3598825
pmc
6,628
{ "abstract": "Background Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol using thermophilic bacteria provides a promising solution for efficient lignocellulose conversion without the need for additional cellulolytic enzymes. Most studies on the thermophilic CBP concentrate on co-cultivation of...
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{ "abstract": "The formation of biofilms is initiated by bacteria transitioning from the planktonic to the surface-associated mode of growth. Several regulatory systems have been described to govern the initiation and subsequent formation of biofilms. Recent evidence suggests that regulatory networks governing the de...
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{ "abstract": "Thin liquid films (TLF) have fundamental and technological importance ranging from the thermodynamics of cell membranes to the safety of light-water cooled nuclear reactors. The creation of stable water TLFs, however, is very difficult. In this paper, the realization of thin liquid films of water with ...
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PMC7325709
pmc
6,633
{ "abstract": "In this work, we present a neuromorphic architecture for head pose estimation and scene representation for the humanoid iCub robot. The spiking neuronal network is fully realized in Intel's neuromorphic research chip, Loihi, and precisely integrates the issued motor commands to estimate the iCub's head...
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PMC10359879
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Summary Ecological engineering of soil formation in tailings is an emerging technology toward sustainable rehabilitation of iron (Fe) ore tailings landscapes worldwide, which requires the formation of well-organized and stable soil aggregates in finely textured tailings. Here, we demonstrate an approac...
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{ "abstract": "Bacteria can coordinate group behavior using chemical signals in a process called quorum sensing (QS). The QS system in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is largely governed by the LasR receptor and its cognate chemical signal, N-(3-oxo)-dodecanoyl L-homoserine lactone (OdDHL). LasR als...
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PMC9926230
pmc
6,636
{ "abstract": "Significance Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are essential for the survival of many cold-blooded species in extremely cold environments. These highly potent proteins can lower the freezing point and inhibit ice recrystallization at very low concentrations, making them interesting for many applications. Howe...
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PMC12002889
pmc
6,637
{ "abstract": "Microbial production of bicyclic monoterpenes is of great interest because their production primarily utilizes non-sustainable resources. Here, we report an engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast that produces bicyclic monoterpenes, including borneol, camphor, and bornyl acetate. The engineered ye...
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{ "abstract": "Three seemingly distinct directions of nanomaterials research, photovoltaics, biofuel production, and biological modulation, have been sequentially developed over the past several decades. In this Mini Review, we discuss how the insights gleaned from nanomaterials-based solar energy conversion can be a...
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PMC10962991
pmc
6,641
{ "abstract": "Significance In this paper, we describe a very different architecture for complex computations. It is a step in the direction of modeling and experimentally demonstrating a highly interactive system which we think more represents the functioning of our brains. We bring together the properties of superc...
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PMC4855977
pmc
6,642
{ "abstract": "Background Given its high surplus and low cost, glycerol has emerged as interesting carbon substrate for the synthesis of value-added chemicals. The soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida KT2440 can use glycerol to synthesize medium-chain-length poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates) (mcl-PHA), a class of biopolymers ...
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PMC10908859
pmc
6,643
{ "abstract": "Deep neural networks have revolutionized several domains, including autonomous driving, cancer detection, and drug design, and are the foundation for massive artificial intelligence models. However, hardware neural network reports still mainly focus on shallow networks (2 to 5 layers). Implementing dee...
1,539
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PMC2717328
pmc
6,644
{ "abstract": "In bacteria, recombination is a rare event, not a part of the reproductive process. Nevertheless, recombination—broadly defined to include the acquisition of genes from external sources, i.e., horizontal gene transfer (HGT)—plays a central role as a source of variation for adaptive evolution in many sp...
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PMC4565550
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Supergeneralists, defined as species that interact with multiple groups of species in ecological networks, can act as important connectors of otherwise disconnected species subsets. In Brazil, there are two supergeneralist bees: the honeybee Apis mellifera , a non-native species, and Trigona spinipes...
3,421
36910977
PMC9996761
pmc
6,646
{ "abstract": "Shark skin-inspired riblets have represented the tremendous\npotential\nfor drag reduction (DR) and antifouling in submarine, ship, and so\non. Most studies simplified the complex denticle embedded in the shark\nskin into the single-stage riblet with uniform parameters, ignoring\nthe influence of rible...
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30895699
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{ "abstract": "Syntrophy is essential for the efficient conversion of organic carbon to methane in natural and constructed environments, but little is known about the enzymes involved in syntrophic carbon and electron flow. Syntrophus aciditrophicus strain SB syntrophically degrades benzoate and cyclohexane-1-carboxy...
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PMC11317521
pmc
6,648
{ "abstract": "Intertidal algae may adapt to environmental challenges by acquiring genes from other organisms and relying on symbiotic microorganisms. Here, we obtained a symbiont-free and chromosome-level genome of Pyropia haitanensis (47.2 Mb), a type of intertidal algae, by using multiple symbiont screening meth...
4,225
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PMC8101122
pmc
6,650
{ "abstract": "Plant-biomass-based nanomaterials have attracted great interest recently for their potential to replace petroleum-sourced polymeric materials for sustained economic development. However, challenges associated with sustainable production of lignocellulosic nanoscale polymeric materials (NPMs) need to be...
1,410
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PMC9629744
pmc
6,651
{ "abstract": "We analyze visual processing capabilities of a large-scale model for area V1 that arguably provides the most comprehensive accumulation of anatomical and neurophysiological data to date. We find that this brain-like neural network model can reproduce a number of characteristic visual processing capabil...
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{ "abstract": "Biofilms promote attachment of Vibrio cholerae in aquatic ecosystems and aid in transmission. Intracellular c-di-GMP levels that control biofilm development positively correlate with expression of Qrr sRNAs, which are transcribed when quorum sensing (QS) autoinducer levels are low. The Qrr sRNAs base-p...
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PMC9052389
pmc
6,653
{ "abstract": "Cr( vi ) laden wastewaters generally comprise a range of multiple heavy metals such as Au( iii ) and Cu( ii ) with great toxicity. In the present study, cooperative cathode modification by biogenic Au nanoparticles (BioAu) reduced from aqueous Au( iii ) and in situ Cu( ii ) co-reduction were investig...
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{ "abstract": "With the expanding interest in cellular responses to dynamic environments, microfluidic devices have become important experimental platforms for biological research. Microfluidic \"microchemostat\" devices enable precise environmental control while capturing high quality, single-cell gene expression da...
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PMC11802859
pmc
6,655
{ "abstract": "Emerging soft systems, including soft robots or wearable devices, actuated by fluidic means facilitate a series of inherent benefits, including safe human-robot interactions, lower costs, and adaptability in geometry for manipulating delicate objects. However, existing fluidic soft systems are facing a...
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35529586
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{ "abstract": "Introduction of surface textures has long been used to improve the hydrophobicity of solid materials. This study focusses on understanding the effects of various micro-texture geometries on the hydrophobicity of textured polymer surfaces. Square pillar, cylindrical, hemispherical and conical surface fe...
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PMC8538726
pmc
6,658
{ "abstract": "Recently, the research of distributed sensor networks based on triboelectric technology has attracted extensive attention. Here, we reported a new triboelectric nanogenerator based on sodium chloride powder (S-TENG) to obtain mechanical energy. The polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) film and sodium chlorid...
2,884
30680281
PMC6334791
pmc
6,659
{ "abstract": "The adhesiveness of biological micropatterned adhesives primarily relies on their geometry (e.g., feature size, architecture) and material properties (e.g., stiffness). Over the last few decades, researchers have been mimicking the geometry and material properties of biological micropatterned adhesives...
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19660930
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6,660
{ "abstract": "Lignocellulosic biofuels represent a sustainable, renewable, and the only foreseeable alternative energy source to transportation fossil fuels. However, the recalcitrant nature of lignocellulose poses technical hurdles to an economically viable biorefinery. Low enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency and low p...
226
38386509
PMC10919095
pmc
6,661
{ "abstract": "Biomaterials often\ncontain large quantities of water (50–98%),\nand with the current transition to a more biobased economy, drying\nthese materials will become increasingly important. Contrary to the\nstandard, thermodynamically inefficient chemical and thermal drying\nmethods, dewatering by membrane ...
1,401
36691727
PMC9873259
pmc
6,665
{ "abstract": "Unicellular algae, termed phytoplankton, greatly impact the marine environment by serving as the basis of marine food webs and by playing central roles in the biogeochemical cycling of elements. The interactions between phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria affect the fitness of both partners. It is...
5,063
28513556
PMC5487990
pmc
6,666
{ "abstract": "Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is an interesting biopolymer for replacing petroleum-based plastics, its biological production is performed in natural and engineered microorganisms. Current metabolic engineering approaches rely on high-throughput strain construction and screening. Analytical procedures h...
1,473
38886365
PMC11183213
pmc
6,667
{ "abstract": "Understanding what makes a community vulnerable to invasion is integral to the successful management of invasive species. Our understanding of how characteristics of resident plant interactions, such as the network architecture of interactions, can affect the invasibility of plant communities is limite...
4,483
37513019
PMC10385058
pmc
6,671
{ "abstract": "The use of biological inputs is an interesting approach to optimize crop production and reduce the use of chemical inputs. Understanding the chemical communication between bacteria and plants is critical to optimizing this approach. Recently, we have shown that Sphingomonas ( S .) sediminicola can ...
4,450
39811656
PMC11731282
pmc
6,674
{ "abstract": "Summary Lignin valorization is crucial for achieving economic and sustainable biorefinery processes. However, the enzyme substrate preferences involved in lignin degradation remain poorly understood, and low activity toward specific substrates presents a significant challenge to the efficient utilizati...
2,227
31624325
PMC6797708
pmc
6,675
{ "abstract": "Neuromorphic networks are formed by random self-assembly of silver nanowires. Silver nanowires are coated with a polymer layer after synthesis in which junctions between two nanowires act as resistive switches, often compared with neurosynapses. We analyze the role of single junction switching in the d...
6,413
35755368
PMC9218975
pmc
6,676
{ "abstract": "Icing and freezing\nphenomena in cold weather cause serious damage\nand economic losses. Thus, the development of a new effective icephobic\nsurface with low ice adhesion strength (τ ice ) that\ncan easily remove ice by wind or gravity force is essentially required.\nIn this study, we propose a silicon...
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25484636
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{ "abstract": "Metagenomic methods provide a powerful means to investigate complex ecological phenomena. Developed originally for study of Bacteria and Archaea, the application of these methods to eukaryotic microorganisms is yet to be fully realized. Most prior environmental molecular studies of eukaryotes have reli...
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PMC3022713
pmc
6,679
{ "abstract": "Background Mixed culture enrichments have been used frequently for biohydrogen production from different feedstock. In spite of the several advantages offered by those cultures, they suffer poor H 2 yield. Constructing defined co-cultures of known H 2 producers may offer a better performance than mix...
3,994
35064088
PMC8794805
pmc
6,680
{ "abstract": "Significance We develop temperature sensors on the basis of charges accumulated at the electrolyte/dielectric interface and dielectric/electrode interface. The accumulated charges make the temperature sensors self-powered, which simplifies circuit design and enables portable sensing. The sensors are st...
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22514077
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{ "abstract": "The development of a new generation of multifunctional biomaterials is a continual goal for the field of materials science. The in vivo functional behaviour of a new fusion protein that combines the mechanical properties of spider silk with the antimicrobial properties of hepcidin was addressed in this...
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{ "abstract": "The development of a new generation of multifunctional biomaterials is a continual goal for the field of materials science. The in vivo functional behaviour of a new fusion protein that combines the mechanical properties of spider silk with the antimicrobial properties of hepcidin was addressed in this...
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PMC7913968
pmc
6,683
{ "abstract": "This work presents a new approach based on a spiking neural network for sound preprocessing and classification. The proposed approach is biologically inspired by the biological neuron’s characteristic using spiking neurons, and Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP)-based learning rule. We propose a ...
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PMC7527417
pmc
6,684
{ "abstract": "Drought is a critical factor limiting the productivity of legumes worldwide. Legumes can enter into a unique tripartite symbiotic relationship with root-nodulating bacteria of genera Rhizobium , Bradyrhizobium , or Sinorhizobium and colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Rhizobial symb...
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PMC11837758
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Aromatic compounds serve pivotal roles in plant physiology and exhibit antioxidative and antimicrobial properties, leading to their widespread application, such as in food preservation and pharmaceuticals. However, direct plant extraction and petrochemical synthesis often struggle to meet curr...
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{ "abstract": "In this issue of Neuron, Sussillo and Abbott describe a new learning rule that helps harness the computational power of recurrent neural networks." }
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{ "abstract": "The combined effect of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) spherical beads and granular activated carbon (GAC) particles as fluidized media on the performance of anaerobic fluidized bed membrane bioreactor (AFMBR) was investigated. GAC particles and ABS beads were fluidized together in a single AFMBR...
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PMC11928476
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{ "abstract": "Starch is a primary food ingredient and industrial feedstock. Low-carbon microbial manufacturing offers a carbon-neutral/negative arable land-independent strategy for starch production. Here, we reconfigure the oleaginous yeast as a starch-rich micro-grain producer by rewiring the starch biosynthesis a...
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PMC7317171
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{ "abstract": "Nature has achieved materials with properties and mechanisms that go far beyond the current know-how of the engineering-materials industry. The remarkable efficiency of biological materials, such as their exceptional properties that rely on weak constituents, high performance per unit mass, and diverse...
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PMC6648567
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{ "abstract": "The\npreparation of superhydrophobic textiles with high mechanical\nand chemical durability is challenging. Here, facile and fluorine-free\nmethods, using alkali and plasma-etching treatments, followed by the\naddition of silica nanoparticles and tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS),\nwere used to prepare s...
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PMC4913940
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{ "abstract": "Theoretical studies have indicated that nestedness and modularity—non-random structural patterns of ecological networks—influence the stability of ecosystems against perturbations; as such, climate change and human activity, as well as other sources of environmental perturbations, affect the nestedness...
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PMC10095725
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{ "abstract": "The conjugation of small-molecule semiconductors with self-assembling peptides is a powerful tool for the fabrication of supramolecular soft materials for organic electronics and bioelectronics. Herein, we introduced the benchmark organic semiconductor [1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]-benzothiophene (BTBT) wit...
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PMC6123915
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{ "abstract": "Background The microbial production of fatty acids has received great attention in the last few years as feedstock for the production of renewable energy. The main advantage of using cyanobacteria over other organisms is their ability to capture energy from sunlight and to transform CO 2 into products...
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PMC11948153
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The coordination of public and private goods production is essential for bacterial adaptation to environmental changes. Quorum sensing (QS) regulates this balance by mediating the trade‐off between the communal benefits of “public goods,” such as siderophores and antibiotics, and the individua...
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