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PMC6955790
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{ "abstract": "This is a literature teaching resource review for biologically inspired microfluidics courses or exploring the diverse applications of microfluidics. The structure is around key papers and model organisms. While courses gradually change over time, a focus remains on understanding how microfluidics has ...
750
36760273
PMC9890976
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Harnessing solar energy for clean and sustainable fuel production by photoelectrochemical water oxidation over different timescales has been extensively investigated. However, the light-driven photoelectrochemical water oxidation reaction for artificial photosynthesis suffers from poor photon-to-curren...
3,300
36557352
PMC9784831
pmc
6,703
{ "abstract": "In recent years, environmental problems caused by natural disasters due to global warming have seriously affected human production and life. Fortunately, with the rapid rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology and the decreasing power consumption of microelectronic devices, it is possible to set...
6,145
28782021
PMC5529063
pmc
6,704
{ "abstract": "Temporal fluctuations in species richness are frequently regulated, exhibiting a tendency to return toward a central level.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION Life is regulated at many levels: from elemental composition within cells, to physiological homeostasis within individuals, to constraints on pop...
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40180965
PMC11968795
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Tearing tough soft solids such as rubbers, leather or meat is much harder than cutting them with a sharp blade. To understand why, we use samples labeled with mechanically sensitive fluorophores to investigate cutting and fracture behavior in PDMS elastomers and quantify the extent of bond scission res...
3,376
34618047
PMC8644718
pmc
6,708
{ "abstract": "Abstract Most land plants live in close contact with beneficial soil microbes: the majority of land plant species establish symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, while most legumes, the third largest plant family, can form a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia. These microbes contribute to p...
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21798746
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6,709
{ "abstract": "Quorum sensing (QS) is a process by which bacteria use small molecules or peptidic signals to assess their local population densities. At sufficiently high density, bacteria can alter gene expression levels to regulate group behaviors involved in a range of important and diverse phenotypes, including v...
392
37679081
PMC10602557
pmc
6,711
{ "abstract": "Abstract Tactility in biological organisms is a faculty that relies on a variety of specialized receptors. The bimodal sensorized skin, featured in this study, combines soft resistive composites that attribute the skin with mechano‐ and thermoreceptive capabilities. Mimicking the position of the differ...
9,131
20161141
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s2
6,713
{ "abstract": "Recent studies have indicated that plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) can improve revegetation of arid mine tailings as measured by increased biomass production. The goals of the present study were first to evaluate how mode of application of known PGPB affects plant growth, and second to evaluate ...
506
20161141
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6,714
{ "abstract": "Recent studies have indicated that plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) can improve revegetation of arid mine tailings as measured by increased biomass production. The goals of the present study were first to evaluate how mode of application of known PGPB affects plant growth, and second to evaluate ...
506
38564133
PMC11058749
pmc
6,716
{ "abstract": "This study investigates the impact of three key variables on the performance of nanoporous AM-3 and layered AM-4 titanosilicates in removing nine REEs (Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Eu, Gd, Tb, and Dy) from natural mineral water and identifies optimal operational conditions using Response Surface Methodology (RSM...
7,593
32963345
PMC7852563
pmc
6,718
{ "abstract": "Microbes compose most of the biomass on the planet, yet the majority of taxa remain uncharacterized. These unknown microbes, often referred to as “microbial dark matter,” represent a major challenge for biology. To understand the ecological contributions of these Unknown taxa, it is essential to first ...
4,048
25944863
PMC4436056
pmc
6,719
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Although plasmids and other episomes are recognized as key players in horizontal gene transfer among microbes, their diversity and dynamics among ecologically structured host populations in the wild remain poorly understood. Here, we show that natural populations of marine Vibrionaceae bacte...
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40156030
PMC11954327
pmc
6,721
{ "abstract": "Genome-scale metabolic models (GSMMs) are used to predict metabolic fluxes, with applications ranging from identifying novel drug targets to engineering microbial metabolism. Erroneous or missing reactions, scattered throughout densely interconnected networks, are a limiting factor in these application...
2,908
35696548
PMC10084317
pmc
6,725
{ "abstract": "Abstract Animals often search for food more efficiently with experience. However, the contribution of experience to foraging success under direct competition has rarely been examined. Here we used colonies of an individually foraging desert ant to investigate the value of spatial experience. First, we ...
3,936
34699568
PMC8547673
pmc
6,727
{ "abstract": "Plant associated microbiomes are known to confer fitness advantages to the host. Understanding how plant factors including biochemical traits influence host associated microbiome assembly could facilitate the development of microbiome-mediated solutions for sustainable plant production. Here, we examin...
5,385
38895271
PMC11185756
pmc
6,730
{ "abstract": "Photonic devices are cutting-edge optical materials that produce narrow, intense beams of light, but their synthesis typically requires toxic, complex methodology. Here we employ a synthetic biology approach to produce environmentally-friendly, living microlenses with tunable structural properties. We ...
2,555
36261484
PMC9582017
pmc
6,731
{ "abstract": "Rhodococcus opacus PD630 has considerable potential as a platform for valorizing lignin due to its innate “biological funneling” pathways. However, the transcriptional regulation of the aromatic catabolic pathways and the mechanisms controlling aromatic catabolic operons in response to different aroma...
5,175
37485527
PMC10359720
pmc
6,732
{ "abstract": "There is virtually no environmental process that is not dependent on temperature. This includes the microbial processes that result in the production of CH 4 , an important greenhouse gas. Microbial CH 4 production is the result of a combination of many different microorganisms and microbial processes...
1,729
28470798
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s2
6,733
{ "abstract": "Small regulatory RNAs have major roles in many regulatory circuits in Escherichia coli and other bacteria, including the transition from planktonic to biofilm growth. We tested Hfq-dependent sRNAs in E. coli for their ability, when overproduced, to inhibit or stimulate biofilm formation, in two differe...
321
27221658
PMC4879726
pmc
6,739
{ "abstract": "Background We report on the functional screening and identification of an active quorum quenching (QQ) gene in the Komagataeibacter europaeus strain CECT 8546, which is a member of the acetic acid bacteria (AAB). Results Using a previously published screening protocol (Schipper et al., in Appl Enviro...
1,648
30038047
PMC6148476
pmc
6,740
{ "abstract": "Gram-negative metal-reducing bacteria utilize electron conduits, chains of redox proteins spanning the outer membrane, to transfer electrons to the extracellular surface. Only one pathway for electron transfer across the outer membrane of Geobacter sulfurreducens has been linked to Fe(III) reduction....
5,664
31057862
PMC6444989
pmc
6,741
{ "abstract": "A complex and functional living cellular system requires the interaction of one or more cell types to perform specific tasks, such as sensing, processing, or force production. Modular and flexible platforms for fabrication of such multi-cellular modules and their characterization have been lacking. Her...
2,981
30523402
PMC6394664
pmc
6,742
{ "abstract": "Aquatic habitats are often characterized by both high diversity and the threat of multiple anthropogenic stressors. Our research deals with temporal and spatial aspects of two of the main threats for biodiversity, namely eutrophication and fragmentation. It is known that pulsed nutrient addition create...
5,618
28127401
PMC5251296
pmc
6,743
{ "abstract": "Background With increasing concerns over the environment, biological production of cadaverine has been suggested as an alternative route to replace polyamides generated from the petroleum-based process. For an ideal bioprocess, cadaverine should be produced with high yield and productivity from various...
1,530
34593633
PMC8501876
pmc
6,744
{ "abstract": "Significance The Fe-catalyzed oxidation of sulfide by dioxygen in hydrothermal vent plumes is shown to be a source of reactive oxygen species (ROS) to the deep ocean. ROS are a class of powerful oxidants, the most reactive of which can react with recalcitrant organic molecules at near diffusion limited...
2,957
38611957
PMC11013808
pmc
6,746
{ "abstract": "This study evaluated the feasibility of contextually producing hydrogen, microbial proteins, and polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) using a mixed culture of purple phototrophic bacteria biomass under photo fermentative conditions. To this end, three consecutive batch tests were conducted to analyze the biomass ...
4,745
33637751
PMC7910463
pmc
6,748
{ "abstract": "Nature fascinates with living organisms showing mechanically adaptive behavior. In contrast to gels or elastomers, it is profoundly challenging to switch mechanical properties in stiff bioinspired nanocomposites as they contain high fractions of immobile reinforcements. Here, we introduce facile electr...
2,524
39906407
PMC11791322
pmc
6,749
{ "abstract": "Highlights • Methane emissions from ruminant livestock are a major greenhouse gas source. • Bromoform feed additives can reduce livestock methane by >90 %. • Curvularia soil fungi produce bromoform and prevent rumen methane emission. • These natural, culturable fungi offer a unique climate change stra...
3,135
35893135
PMC9330720
pmc
6,750
{ "abstract": "Concerns over climate change have led to increased interest in renewable fuels in recent years. Microbial production of advanced fuels from renewable and readily available carbon sources has emerged as an attractive alternative to the traditional production of transportation fuels. Here, we engineered ...
5,158
26562022
PMC4642986
pmc
6,751
{ "abstract": "Trichodesmium is a biogeochemically important marine cyanobacterium, responsible for a significant proportion of the annual ‘new’ nitrogen introduced into the global ocean. These non-heterocystous filamentous diazotrophs employ a potentially unique strategy of near-concurrent nitrogen fixation and oxy...
9,142
26912334
PMC4765114
pmc
6,752
{ "abstract": "Background Polysaccharides comprising plant biomass are potential resources for conversion to fuels and chemicals. These polysaccharides include xylans derived from the hemicellulose of hardwoods and grasses, soluble β-glucans from cereals and starch as the primary form of energy storage in plants. Pa...
12,681
27378842
PMC4908299
pmc
6,753
{ "abstract": "The ionic conductance models of neuronal cells can finely reproduce a wide variety of complex neuronal activities. However, the complexity of these models has prompted the development of qualitative neuron models. They are described by differential equations with a reduced number of variables and their...
4,831
35548138
PMC9086479
pmc
6,754
{ "abstract": "Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) have been extensively investigated in combination remediation with plants in heavy metal contaminated soil. However, being biosorbent, few studies of live and dead cells of PGPR have been undertaken. Meanwhile, the application of live or dead biomass for the ...
6,050
35338600
PMC9131612
pmc
6,756
{ "abstract": "Abstract Flexible electronic skin with features that include sensing, processing, and responding to stimuli have transformed human–robot interactions. However, more advanced capabilities, such as human‐like self‐protection modalities with a sense of pain, sign of injury, and healing, are more challengi...
3,069
39104224
PMC11344169
pmc
6,760
{ "abstract": "Abstract Plastics have become an indispensable material in many fields of human activities, with production increasing every year; however, most of the plastic waste is still incinerated or landfilled, and only 10% of the new plastic is recycled even once. Among all plastics, polyethylene terephthalate...
9,695
35351909
PMC8964759
pmc
6,761
{ "abstract": "Oleaginous microalgae can produce triacylglycerol (TAG) under stress, yet the underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, we show that, in Nannochloropsis oceanica , a bZIP-family regulator NobZIP77 represses the transcription of a type-2 diacylgycerol acyltransferase encoding gene NoDGAT2B ...
2,017
29696070
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s2
6,762
{ "abstract": "Humans are producing complex and often undesirable social and ecological outcomes in many landscapes around the world. To sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services in fragmented landscapes conservation planning has turned to the identification and protection of large-scale spatial ecological networks...
346
29167704
PMC5688640
pmc
6,763
{ "abstract": "Cyanobacterial mats are laminated microbial ecosystems which occur in highly diverse environments and which may provide a possible model for early life on Earth. Their ability to produce hydrogen also makes them of interest from a biotechnological and bioenergy perspective. Samples of an intertidal mic...
1,513
25081499
PMC4118322
pmc
6,764
{ "abstract": "Although the hypothesis that nestedness determines mutualistic ecosystem dynamics is accepted in general, results of some recent data analyses and theoretical studies have begun to cast doubt on the impact of nestedness on ecosystem stability. However, definite conclusions have not yet been reached bec...
1,585
36383522
PMC9668122
pmc
6,765
{ "abstract": "Soil microbiome disruption methods are regularly used to reduce populations of microbial pathogens, often resulting in increased crop growth. However, little is known about the effect of soil microbiome disruption on non-pathogenic members of the soil microbiome. Here, we applied soil microbiome disrup...
5,485
34917063
PMC8670094
pmc
6,767
{ "abstract": "Rocks that react with liquid water are widespread but spatiotemporally limited throughout the solar system, except for Earth. Rock-forming minerals with high iron content and accessory minerals with high amounts of radioactive elements are essential to support rock-hosted microbial life by supplying or...
1,227
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PMC11579526
pmc
6,768
{ "abstract": "Synopsis Melanin is an essential product that plays an important role in innate immunity in a variety of organisms across the animal kingdom. Melanin synthesis is performed by many organisms using the tyrosine metabolism pathway, a general pathway that utilizes a type-three copper oxidase protein, call...
7,183
38053678
PMC10695191
pmc
6,772
{ "abstract": "The anaerobic digestion (AD) of food waste (FW) was easy to acidify and accumulate ammonia nitrogen. Adding exogenous materials to the AD system can enhance its conversion efficiency by alleviating acidification and ammonia nitrogen inhibition. This work investigated the effects of the addition frequen...
6,834
24995002
PMC4061905
pmc
6,773
{ "abstract": "The microbial conversion of solid cellulosic biomass to liquid biofuels may provide a renewable energy source for transportation fuels. Cellulolytic fungi represent a promising group of organisms, as they have evolved complex systems for adaptation to their natural habitat. The filamentous fungus Myce...
2,876
35126327
PMC8811301
pmc
6,777
{ "abstract": "The anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) by autotrophic anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AnAOB) is a biological process used to remove reactive nitrogen from wastewater. It has been repeatedly reported that elevated nitrite concentrations can severely inhibit the growth of AnAOB, which renders t...
3,820
28852625
PMC5566244
pmc
6,779
{ "abstract": "Storing energy harvested by triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) from ambient mechanical motion is still a great challenge for achieving low‐cost and environmental benign power sources. Here, an all‐solid‐state Na‐ion battery with safe and durable performance used for efficient storing pulsed energy ha...
226
38731513
PMC11085530
pmc
6,781
{ "abstract": "The various wastes generated by silkworm silk textiles that are no longer in use are increasing, which is causing considerable waste and contamination. This issue has attracted widespread attention in countries that use a lot of silk. Therefore, enhancing the mechanical properties of regenerated silk f...
4,688
31098412
PMC6513846
pmc
6,782
{ "abstract": "Although metagenomics researches have illuminated microbial diversity in numerous biospheres, understanding individual microbial functions is yet difficult due to the complexity of ecosystems. To address this issue, we applied a metagenome-independent, de novo assembly–based metatranscriptomics to a co...
2,177
34671223
PMC8452181
pmc
6,784
{ "abstract": "Significant progress in lignins valorization and development of high-performance sustainable materials have been achieved in recent years. Reports related to lignin utilization indicate excellent prospects considering green chemistry, chemical engineering, energy, materials and polymer science, physica...
2,454
36349407
PMC10107361
pmc
6,786
{ "abstract": "Summary \n Ecological corridors promote species coexistence in fragmented habitats where dispersal limits species fluxes. The corridor concept was developed and investigated with macroorganisms in mind, while microorganisms, the invisible majority of biodiversity, were disregarded. We analyzed the effe...
7,097
30123641
PMC6059151
pmc
6,787
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Endolithic true fungi and fungus-like microorganisms penetrate calcareous substrates formed by living organisms, cause significant bioerosion and are involved in diseases of many host animals in marine ecosystems. A theoretical interactive model for the ecology of reef-building corals is propo...
2,412
23417095
PMC3659820
pmc
6,788
{ "abstract": "Efforts to improve the production of a compound of interest in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have mainly involved engineering or overexpression of cytoplasmic enzymes. We show that targeted expression of metabolic pathways to mitochondria can increase production levels compared with expression of the same...
3,909
35264928
PMC8900719
pmc
6,789
{ "abstract": "In bottom-up neuroscience, questions on neural information processing are addressed by engineering small but reproducible biological neural networks of defined network topology in vitro . The network topology can be controlled by culturing neurons within polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microstructures tha...
4,111
34363004
PMC8776821
pmc
6,790
{ "abstract": "The symbiont “ Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri” infects a diversity of aquatic hosts. In the threatened Caribbean coral, Acropora cervicornis , Aquarickettsia proliferates in response to increased nutrient exposure, resulting in suppressed growth and increased disease susceptibility and mortality...
5,216
23190039
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s2
6,791
{ "abstract": "Bacterial flagella are highly conserved molecular machines that have been extensively studied for assembly, function and gene regulation. Less studied is how and why bacteria differ based on the number and arrangement of the flagella they synthesize. Here we explore the cell biology of peritrichous fla...
322
33329631
PMC7717983
pmc
6,792
{ "abstract": "Intensive agriculture and horticulture heavily rely on the input of fertilizers to sustain food (and feed) production. However, high carbon footprint and pollution are associated with the mining processes of P and K, and the artificial nitrogen fixation for the production of synthetic fertilizers. Orga...
8,179
35423606
PMC8695991
pmc
6,793
{ "abstract": "Wetting of electrospun mats plays a huge role in tissue engineering and filtration applications. However, it is challenging to trace the interrelation between the wetting of individual nano-sized fibers and the macroscopic electrospun mat. Here we measured the wetting of different nylon-11 samples – so...
4,027
19772347
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s2
6,794
{ "abstract": "No abstract available" }
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PMC11389779
pmc
6,796
{ "abstract": "The limitations and complexity of traditional noncontact sensors in terms of sensitivity and threshold settings pose great challenges to extend the traditional five human senses. Here, we propose tele-perception to enhance human perception and cognition beyond these conventional noncontact sensors. Our...
2,570
40108200
PMC11923131
pmc
6,799
{ "abstract": "Electrochemical random-access memory devices are promising for analog cross-point array-based artificial intelligence accelerators due to their high stability and programmability. However, understanding their switching mechanism is challenging due to complex multilayer structures and the high resistivi...
1,749
30270573
PMC6528606
pmc
6,802
{ "abstract": "Abstract The discovery of secondary metabolites from marine microorganisms is beset by numerous challenges including difficulties cultivating and subsequently eliciting expression of biosynthetic genes from marine microbes in the laboratory. In this paper, we describe a method of culturing three specie...
6,033
32118096
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s2
6,804
{ "abstract": "The recent demonstration of neuromorphic computing with spin-torque nano-oscillators has opened a path to energy efficient data processing. The success of this demonstration hinged on the intrinsic short-term memory of the oscillators. In this study, we extend the memory of the spin-torque nano-oscilla...
170
35193559
PMC8864926
pmc
6,806
{ "abstract": "Background Butyl acetate is a versatile compound that is widely used in the chemical and food industry. The conventional butyl acetate synthesis via Fischer esterification of butanol and acetic acid using catalytic strong acids under high temperature is not environmentally benign. Alternative lipase-ca...
6,965
25894589
PMC4403855
pmc
6,808
{ "abstract": "The organization of cells, emerging from cell–cell interactions, can give rise to collective properties. These properties are adaptive when together cells can face environmental challenges that they separately cannot. One particular challenge that is important for microorganisms is migration. In this s...
4,527
39958774
PMC11830346
pmc
6,809
{ "abstract": "Highlights • Biodegradable polymers can be synthesized from phenol-contaminated effluents. • Phenol degradation occurs through multiple pathways aerobically and anaerobically. • Acetyl-CoA produced during phenol degradation can be directed towards PHA synthesis. • Mixed microbial cultures improve pheno...
2,304
27311560
PMC4911592
pmc
6,810
{ "abstract": "Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases (BVMOs) are able to catalyze regiospecific Baeyer-Villiger oxygenation of a variety of cyclic and linear ketones to generate the corresponding lactones and esters, respectively. However, the enzymes are usually difficult to express in a functional form in microbial cells ...
2,056
38066117
PMC10709317
pmc
6,811
{ "abstract": "Climate change modifies environmental conditions, resulting in altered precipitation patterns, moisture availability and nutrient distribution for microbial communities. Changes in water availability are projected to affect a range of ecological processes, including the decomposition of plant litter an...
4,446
23167984
PMC3538563
pmc
6,812
{ "abstract": "Background A modified laboratory-scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor was used to obtain methane by treating hydrous ethanol vinasse. Vinasses or stillage are waste materials with high organic loads, and a complex composition resulting from the process of alcohol distillation. They must...
5,164
28970817
PMC5609546
pmc
6,814
{ "abstract": "The Mariana region exhibits a rich array of hydrothermal venting conditions in a complex geological setting, which provides a natural laboratory to study the influence of local environmental conditions on microbial community structure as well as large-scale patterns in microbial biogeography. We used h...
6,456
33143657
PMC7640387
pmc
6,815
{ "abstract": "Background Ferula sinkiangensis is an increasingly endangered medicinal plant. Arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi (AMF) are symbiotic microorganisms that live in the soil wherein they enhance nutrient uptake, stress resistance, and pathogen defense in host plants. While such AMF have the potential to contrib...
2,771
35479177
PMC9032199
pmc
6,816
{ "abstract": "Biodegradable natural polymers and macromolecules for transient electronics have great potential to reduce the environmental footprint and provide opportunities to create emerging and environmentally sustainable technologies. Creating complex electronic devices from biodegradable materials requires exp...
5,934
30006515
PMC6045665
pmc
6,817
{ "abstract": "Achieving a desirable combination of solid-like properties and fast self-healing is a great challenge due to slow diffusion dynamics. In this work, we describe a design concept that utilizes weak but abundant coordination bonds to achieve this objective. The designed PDMS polymer, crosslinked by abunda...
1,597
35273458
PMC8822226
pmc
6,818
{ "abstract": "In the current research landscape, microbiota composition studies are of extreme interest, since it has been widely shown that resident microorganisms affect and shape the ecological niche they inhabit. This complex micro-world is characterized by different types of interactions. Understanding these re...
2,815
36684391
PMC9858410
pmc
6,820
{ "abstract": "Abstract This feasibility study aimed to develop a new composite material of aligned glass flakes in a polymer resin matrix inspired by the biological composite nacre. The experimental composite was processed by an adapted method of pressing a glass flake and resin monomer system. By pressing and allow...
3,473
37264438
PMC10233912
pmc
6,821
{ "abstract": "Background 2-Pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylic acid (PDC), a chemically stable pseudoaromatic dicarboxylic acid, represents a promising building block for the manufacture of biodegradable polyesters. Microbial production of PDC has been extensively investigated, but low titers and yields have limited industrial ...
6,258
31306566
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s2
6,823
{ "abstract": "The autoinducer-2 (AI-2) quorum sensing system is involved in a range of population-based bacterial behaviors and has been engineered for cell-cell communication in synthetic biology systems. Investigation into the cellular mechanisms of AI-2 processing has determined that overexpression of uptake gene...
324
31767843
PMC6877613
pmc
6,824
{ "abstract": "At high cell density, swimming bacteria exhibit collective motility patterns, self-organized through physical interactions of a however still debated nature. Although high-density behaviours are frequent in natural situations, it remained unknown how collective motion affects chemotaxis, the main physi...
3,832
37463898
PMC10354067
pmc
6,826
{ "abstract": "Conductive hydrogels require tunable mechanical properties, high conductivity and complicated 3D structures for advanced functionality in (bio)applications. Here, we report a straightforward strategy to construct 3D conductive hydrogels by programable printing of aqueous inks rich in poly(3,4-ethylened...
2,563
35889697
PMC9317797
pmc
6,827
{ "abstract": "Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) can sustainably convert CO 2 to products and significant research is currently being conducted towards this end, mainly in laboratory-scale studies. The high-cost ion exchange membrane, however, is one of the main reasons hindering the industrialization of MES. This st...
6,281
39900940
PMC11791102
pmc
6,828
{ "abstract": "Biogas production through the anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic waste plays a crucial role in promoting sustainability and closing the carbon cycle. Over the past decade, this has driven global research on biogas-producing microbiomes, leading to significant advances in our understanding of microbial...
292
37206335
PMC10189066
pmc
6,829
{ "abstract": "Modern agriculture is primarily focused on the massive production of cereals and other food-based crops in a sustainable manner in order to fulfill the food demands of an ever-increasing global population. However, intensive agricultural practices, rampant use of agrochemicals, and other environmental ...
2,920
29101362
PMC5670227
pmc
6,830
{ "abstract": "In 2015/16, a marine heatwave associated with a record El Niño led to the third global mass bleaching event documented to date. This event impacted coral reefs around the world, including in Western Australia (WA), although WA reefs had largely escaped bleaching during previous strong El Niño years. Co...
5,080
29658273
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s2
6,831
{ "abstract": "Dissimilatory iron-reducing bacteria (DIRB) are known to use humic substances (HS) as electron shuttles for dissimilatory iron reduction (DIR) by transferring electrons to HS-quinone moieties, which in turn rapidly reduce Fe(III) oxides. However, the potential for HS to serve as a source of organic car...
329
25532804
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s2
6,832
{ "abstract": "Mammals exhibit marked interindividual variations in their gut microbiota, but it remains unclear if this is primarily driven by host genetics or by extrinsic factors like dietary intake. To address this, we examined the effect of dietary perturbations on the gut microbiota of five inbred mouse strains...
266
32033333
PMC7074696
pmc
6,833
{ "abstract": "Revealing the unexplored rhizosphere microbiome of plants in arid environments can help in understanding their interactions between microbial communities and plants during harsh growth conditions. Here, we report the first investigation of rhizospheric fungal and bacterial communities of Adenium obesu...
4,119
34139059
PMC8596516
pmc
6,835
{ "abstract": "Summary An open question in environmental ecology regards the mechanisms triggered by root chemistry to drive the assembly and functionality of a beneficial microbiome to rapidly adapt to stress conditions. This phenomenon, originally described in plant defence against pathogens and predators, is encom...
1,307
27687986
PMC5056432
pmc
6,837
{ "abstract": "May's celebrated theoretical work of the 70's contradicted the established paradigm by demonstrating that complexity leads to instability in biological systems. Here May's random-matrix modelling approach is generalized to realistic large-scale webs of species interactions, be they structured by networ...
778
36964430
PMC10039194
pmc
6,838
{ "abstract": "Highlights \n A fully self-powered bimodal sensor is designed for patterned-displaying the force trajectories. Outstanding mechanoluminescence is achieved with a stimulation force as low as 0.3 N and 2000 cycles reproducibility. The designed bimodal sensor exhibits good potential for handwriting input ...
6,012
36286994
PMC9769843
pmc
6,839
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT The Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR) is one of the typical representatives of deep-sea ultraslow-spreading ridges, and has increasingly become a hot spot of studying subsurface geological activities and deep-sea mining management. However, the understanding of microbial activities is still limite...
6,454
39711482
PMC11837899
pmc
6,840
{ "abstract": "Abstract To tackle the formidable challenges posed by extreme cold weather events, significant advancements have been made in developing functional surfaces capable of efficiently removing accreted ice. Nevertheless, many of these surfaces still require external energy input, such as electrical power, ...
3,967
29209281
PMC5701628
pmc
6,844
{ "abstract": "Extremely acidic and metal-rich acid mine drainage (AMD) waters can have severe toxicological effects on aquatic ecosystems. AMD has been shown to completely halt nitrification, which plays an important role in transferring nitrogen to higher organisms and in mitigating nitrogen pollution. We evaluated...
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37801504
PMC10558118
pmc
6,845
{ "abstract": "A widely assumed, but largely untested, tenet in ecology is that ecosystem stability tends to increase over succession. We rigorously test this idea using 60-year continuous data of old field succession across 480 plots nested within 10 fields. We found that ecosystem temporal stability increased over ...
4,025
39049562
PMC11299186
pmc
6,846
{ "abstract": "Multipore membranes with nanofluidic diodes show memristive\nand\ncurrent rectifying effects that can be controlled by the nanostructure\nasymmetry and ionic solution characteristics in addition to the frequency\nand amplitude of the electrical driving signal. Here, we show that\nthe electrical conduct...
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36386613
PMC9651917
pmc
6,847
{ "abstract": "While metagenome sequencing may provide insights on the genome sequences and composition of microbial communities, metatranscriptome analysis can be useful for studying the functional activity of a microbiome. RNA-Seq data provides the possibility to determine active genes in the community and how thei...
1,663
22905115
PMC3414520
pmc
6,851
{ "abstract": "Self-facilitation through ecosystem engineering (i.e., organism modification of the abiotic environment) and consumer-resource interactions are both major determinants of spatial patchiness in ecosystems. However, interactive effects of these two mechanisms on spatial complexity have not been extensive...
2,959
30023793
PMC6045362
pmc
6,852
{ "abstract": "There\nis a growing appreciation that engineered biointerfaces can\nregulate cell behaviors, or functions. Most systems aim to mimic the\ncell-friendly extracellular matrix environment and incorporate protein\nligands; however, the understanding of how a ligand-free system can\nachieve this is limited....
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36417801
PMC9731265
pmc
6,853
{ "abstract": "Fe(II) clays are common across many environments, making\nthem a\npotentially significant microbial substrate, yet clays are not well\nestablished as an electron donor. Therefore, we explored whether Fe(II)-smectite\nsupports the growth of Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1, a microaerophilic Fe(II)-ox...
3,337
30837468
PMC6401179
pmc
6,854
{ "abstract": "Droplet impacting and bouncing off solid surface plays a vital role in various biological/physiological processes and engineering applications. However, due to a lack of accurate control of force transmission, the maneuver of the droplet movement and energy conversion is rather primitive. Here we show ...
862
29920568
PMC6008153
pmc
6,855
{ "abstract": "The photosynthetic quantum yield (Φ), defined as carbon fixed or oxygen evolved per unit of light absorbed, is a fundamental but rarely determined biophysical parameter. A method to estimate Φ for both net carbon uptake and net oxygen evolution simultaneously can provide important insights into energy ...
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