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PMC7912431
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{ "abstract": "Bio-inspired surfaces with superamphiphobic properties are well known as effective candidates for antifouling technology. However, the limitation of large-area mastering, patterning and pattern collapsing upon physical contact are the bottleneck for practical utilization in marine and medical applicati...
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PMC10646967
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The conversion of light into chemical energy is the game-changer enabling technology for the energetic transition to renewable and clean solar fuels. The photochemistry of interest includes the overall reductive/oxidative splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen and alternatives based on the reducti...
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PMC9284154
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{ "abstract": "Abstract High‐performance flexible pressure sensors have attracted a great deal of attention, owing to its potential applications such as human activity monitoring, man–machine interaction, and robotics. However, most high‐performance flexible pressure sensors are complex and costly to manufacture. The...
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PMC9503713
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The application of plant beneficial microorganisms is widely accepted as an efficient alternative to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. It was shown that annually, mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria are responsible for 5 to 80% of all nitrogen, and up to 75% of P plant acquisition. Howeve...
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PMC8444440
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background The plant microbiome is an integral part of the host and increasingly recognized as playing fundamental roles in plant growth and health. Increasing evidence indicates that plant rhizosphere recruits beneficial microbes to the plant to suppress soil-borne pathogens. However, the ecological p...
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32296945
PMC7228911
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Drought reduces the availability of soil water and the mobility of nutrients, thereby limiting the growth and productivity of rice. Under drought, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) increase P uptake and sustain rice growth. However, we lack knowledge of how the AMF symbiosis contributes to drought tol...
5,759
31549074
PMC6750057
pmc
7,506
{ "abstract": "Shape morphing is a critical aptitude for the survival of organisms and is determined by anisotropic tissue composition and directional orientation of micro- and nanostructures within cell walls, resulting in different swelling behaviors. Recent efforts have been dedicated to mimicking the behaviors th...
2,291
35557857
PMC9085624
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Biogas produced from anaerobic digestion consists of 55–65% methane and 35–45% carbon dioxide, with an additional 1–2% of other impurities. To utilize biogas as renewable energy, a process called biogas upgrading is required. Biogas upgrading is the separation of methane from carbon dioxide and other i...
2,652
34684986
PMC8539025
pmc
7,508
{ "abstract": "Dielectric materials with excellent thermally conductive and mechanical properties can enable disruptive performance enhancement in the areas of advanced electronics and high-power devices. However, simultaneously achieving high thermal conductivity and mechanical strength for a single material remains...
6,653
24822064
PMC4009226
pmc
7,509
{ "abstract": "Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans is a carboxydotrophic hydrogenogenic bacterium species that produces hydrogen molecule by utilizing carbon monoxide (CO) or pyruvate as a carbon source. To investigate the underlying biochemical mechanism of hydrogen production, an elementary mode analysis of acetyl-C...
2,546
37250063
PMC10213550
pmc
7,510
{ "abstract": "The production and anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) by microorganisms is widespread in organic-rich deep subseafloor sediments. Yet, the organisms that carry out these processes remain largely unknown. Here we identify members of the methane-cycling microbial community in deep subsurface, hydrate-c...
6,656
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PMC7976604
pmc
7,512
{ "abstract": "The UbiD family of\nreversible (de)carboxylases depends on the recently\ndiscovered prenylated-FMN (prFMN) cofactor for activity. The model\nenzyme ferulic acid decarboxylase (Fdc1) decarboxylates unsaturated\naliphatic acids via a reversible 1,3-cycloaddition process. Protein\nengineering has extended...
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36983971
PMC10057978
pmc
7,517
{ "abstract": "Exploring austere environments required a reimagining of resource acquisition and utilization. Cyanobacterial in situ resources utilization (ISRU) and biological life support system (BLSS) bioreactors have been proposed to allow crewed space missions to extend beyond the temporal boundaries that curren...
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26656851
PMC4675544
pmc
7,519
{ "abstract": "Over the past decade, technological advances in experimental and animal tracking techniques have motivated a renewed theoretical interest in animal collective motion and, in particular, locust swarming. This review offers a comprehensive biological background followed by comparative analysis of recent ...
2,420
26501832
PMC4623080
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The intrinsic scaling-down ability, simple metal-insulator-metal (MIM) sandwich structure, excellent performances, and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology-compatible fabrication processes make resistive random access memory (RRAM) one of the most promising candidates for the next-...
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PMC6926482
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Summary Bacterial lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCOs) are key mediators of the nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis (RNS) in legumes. The isolation of LCOs from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi suggested that LCOs are also signaling molecules in arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM). However, the corresponding plant r...
3,519
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PMC5538326
pmc
7,522
{ "abstract": "Abstract Lignin impedes access to cellulose during biofuel production and pulping but trees can be genetically modified to improve processing efficiency. Modification of lignin may have nontarget effects on mechanical and chemical resistance and subsequent arthropod community responses with respect to ...
1,633
35023908
PMC8744080
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In the marine environment, coastal nutrient pollution and algal blooms are increasing in many coral reefs and surface waters around the world, leading to higher concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), nitrogen (N), phosphate (P), and sulfur (S) compounds. The adaptation of the marine microbio...
5,231
30018464
PMC5989813
pmc
7,525
{ "abstract": "A novel design of microbial fuel cells (MFC) fuelled with undiluted urine was demonstrated to be an efficient power source for decentralised areas, but had only been tested under controlled laboratory conditions. Hence, a field-trial was carried out to assess its feasibility for practical implementatio...
7,518
22574181
PMC3344890
pmc
7,526
{ "abstract": "The temporal stability of aggregate community properties depends on the dynamics of the component species. Since species growth can compensate for the decline of other species, synchronous species dynamics can maintain stability (i.e. invariability) in aggregate properties such as community abundance a...
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{ "abstract": "Bacterial swarming is an example of dynamic self-assembly in microbiology in which the collective interaction of a population of bacterial cells leads to emergent behavior. Swarming occurs when cells interact with surfaces, reprogram their physiology and behavior, and adapt to changes in their environm...
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29415041
PMC5802861
pmc
7,530
{ "abstract": "Trained recurrent networks are powerful tools for modeling dynamic neural computations. We present a target-based method for modifying the full connectivity matrix of a recurrent network to train it to perform tasks involving temporally complex input/output transformations. The method introduces a seco...
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26812639
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{ "abstract": "A negatively charged hydrophilic low fouling film was prepared by thermally cross-linking a blend consisting of polystyrene sulfonic acid (PSS) and polyethylene glycol (PEG). The film was found to be stable by dip-washing. The fouling resistance of this material toward bacterial (Escherichia coli) and ...
346
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PMC9035279
pmc
7,535
{ "abstract": "Mine soil is not only barren but also contaminated by some heavy metals. It is unclear whether some rhizobia survived under extreme conditions in the nickel mine soil. Therefore, this study tries to isolate some effective soybean plant growth promoting and heavy metal resistant rhizobia from nickel min...
2,689
30813443
PMC6412854
pmc
7,536
{ "abstract": "Solution-processable nonvolatile memory devices, consisted of graphene oxide (GO) embedded into an insulating polymer polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), were manufactured. By varying the GO content in PMMA nanocomposite films, the memristic conductance behavior of the Ni/PMMA:GO/Indium tin oxide (ITO) san...
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26173699
PMC4502231
pmc
7,537
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT In the discovery of secondary metabolites, analysis of sequence data is a promising exploration path that remains largely underutilized due to the lack of computational platforms that enable such a systematic approach on a large scale. In this work, we present IMG-ABC ( https://img.jgi.doe.gov...
2,695
22678395
PMC4902277
pmc
7,538
{ "abstract": "Metagenomics holds enormous promise for discovering novel enzymes and organisms that are biomarkers or causes of processes relevant to disease, industry and the environment. In the last two years we have seen a paradigm shift in metagenomics to the application of broad cross-sectional and longitudinal ...
1,185
34276750
PMC8280758
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Phosphorus (P) availability is usually low in soils around the globe. Most soils have a deficiency of available P; if they are not fertilized, they will not be able to satisfy the P requirement of plants. P fertilization is generally recommended to manage soil P deficiency; however, the low efficacy of...
2,687
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PMC6999062
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Current global environmental issues raise unavoidable challenges for our use of natural resources. Supplying the human population with clean water is becoming a global problem. Numerous organic and inorganic impurities in municipal, industrial, and agricultural waters, ranging from microplasti...
1,516
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PMC5304690
pmc
7,544
{ "abstract": "During evolution, living organisms have learned to design biomolecules exhibiting self-assembly properties to build-up materials with complex organizations. This is particularly evidenced by the delicate siliceous structures of diatoms and sponges. These structures have been considered as inspiration s...
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{ "abstract": "Host-associated microbial communities consist of stable and transient members that can assemble through purely stochastic processes associated with the environment or by interactions with the host. Phylosymbiosis predicts that if host-microbiota interactions impact assembly patterns, then one conceivab...
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PMC10284049
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract One of the most intriguing questions in eusocial insects is to understand how the overt reproductive conflict in the colony appears limited when queens or kings are senescent or lost because the morphologically similar individuals in the colony are reproductively totipotent. Whether there are ...
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PMC5900883
pmc
7,550
{ "abstract": "Summary Members of the phylum Acidobacteria are abundant and ubiquitous across soils. We performed a large‐scale comparative genome analysis spanning subdivisions 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 23 ( n  = 24) with the goal to identify features to help explain their prevalence in soils and understand their ecophysi...
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PMC6145019
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Ecotones between distinct ecosystems have been the focus of many studies as they offer valuable insights into key drivers of community structure and ecological processes that underpin function. While previous studies have examined a wide range of above‐ground parameters in ecotones, soil micro...
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PMC8465357
pmc
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{ "abstract": "A control chip with a multistage flow-rate regulation function based on the correlation between the flow resistance and flow rate has been developed in this article. Compared with the traditional proportional solenoid valve, this kind of flow valve based on microfluidic technology has the characteristi...
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{ "abstract": "Cell-free biocatalysis systems offer many benefits for chemical manufacturing, but their widespread applicability is hindered by high costs associated with enzyme purification, modification, and immobilization on solid substrates, in addition to the cost of the material substrates themselves. Herein, w...
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35266649
PMC9286555
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Microbial communities are continuously exposed to unpredictable changes in their environment. To thrive in such dynamic habitats, microorganisms have developed the ability to readily switch phenotypes, resulting in a number of differently adapted subpopulations expressing various traits. In ev...
4,557
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PMC7782550
pmc
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{ "abstract": "With the advent of the big data era, applications are more data-centric and energy efficiency issues caused by frequent data interactions, due to the physical separation of memory and computing, will become increasingly severe. Emerging technologies have been proposed to perform analog computing with m...
1,414
25575309
PMC4478700
pmc
7,560
{ "abstract": "Methods developed in geochemical modelling combined with recent advances in molecular microbial ecology provide new opportunities to explore how microbial communities are shaped by their chemical surroundings. Here, we present a framework for analyses of how chemical energy availability shape chemotrop...
4,406
29468118
PMC5779730
pmc
7,561
{ "abstract": "The conversion of biomass-derived sugars and aromatic molecules to cis , cis -muconic acid (referred to hereafter as muconic acid or muconate) has been of recent interest owing to its facile conversion to adipic acid, an important commodity chemical. Metabolic routes to produce muconate from both suga...
4,606
33184305
PMC7665202
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Microorganisms that display unique biotechnological characteristics are usually selected for industrial applications. Bacillus cereus NWUAB01 was isolated from a mining soil and its heavy metal resistance was determined on Luria–Bertani agar. The biosurfactant production was determined by screening m...
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PMC3214846
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background Poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a polyester with thermoplastic properties that is naturally occurring and produced by such bacteria as Ralstonia eutropha H16 and Bacillus megaterium . In contrast to currently utilized plastics and most synthetic polymers, PHB is biodegradable, and its pro...
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40234571
PMC12000348
pmc
7,566
{ "abstract": "Piezoelectric composite materials have demonstrated significant potential for developing high-performance wearable sensors. However, optimizing the piezoelectric output performance in polymer-based devices remains challenging due to the suboptimal synergy between the piezoelectric reinforcement phase a...
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28591626
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7,567
{ "abstract": "Studies of interspecies interactions are inherently difficult due to the complex mechanisms which enable these relationships. A model system for studying interspecies interactions is the marine hyperthermophiles Ignicoccus hospitalis and Nanoarchaeum equitans. Recent independently-conducted 'omics' ana...
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{ "abstract": "Microgel multi-layer films assembled from anionic particles and linear polycation were prepared on elastomeric substrates and their self-healing properties studied. Dried films were imaged " }
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PMC9026648
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background During fermentation, industrial microorganisms encounter multiple stresses that inhibit cell growth and decrease fermentation yields, in particular acid stress, which is due to the accumulation of acidic metabolites in the fermentation medium. Although the addition of a base to the medium ca...
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PMC8646179
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{ "abstract": "Summary Nowadays, wearable devices mainly exist in the form of portable accessories with various functions, connecting various kinds of terminals like mobile phones to form various wearable systems. In a wearable system, the wearable power supply device is the key component as energy dispenser for all ...
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{ "abstract": "Scale-invariant timing has been observed in a wide range of behavioral experiments. The firing properties of recently described time cells provide a possible neural substrate for scale-invariant behavior. Earlier neural circuit models do not produce scale-invariant neural sequences. In this article, we...
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PMC10490608
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In reinforcement learning, the epsilon (ε)-greedy strategy is commonly employed as an exploration technique This method, however, leads to extensive initial exploration and prolonged learning periods. Existing approaches to mitigate this issue involve constraining the exploration range using expert dat...
3,000
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PMC11817932
pmc
7,574
{ "abstract": "Memristive in-memory computing has demonstrated potential for solving matrix equations in scientific computing. However, the inherent inaccuracies of analog mechanisms create challenges in achieving high-precision solutions while maintaining low-energy consumption. This study introduces a memristive ma...
3,015
36134360
PMC9400516
pmc
7,576
{ "abstract": "The controlled transport of liquid on a smart material surface has important applications in the fields of microreactors, mass and heat transfer, water collection, microfluidic devices and so on. Porous membranes with special wettability have attracted extensive attention due to their unique unidirecti...
1,492
34436597
PMC8388608
pmc
7,577
{ "abstract": "Abstract Worker division of labor is a defining trait in social insects. Many species are characterized by having behavioral flexibility where workers perform non-typical tasks for their age depending on the colony’s needs. Worker division of labor and behavioral flexibility were examined in the little...
3,165
35480720
PMC9038061
pmc
7,578
{ "abstract": "Magnetotactic bacteria, which synthesize biological magnetite nanoparticles (BMs), are the main microbial source of magnetic nanomaterials. Although the use of BMs has been explored in vitro and in vivo for new anticancer formulations, targeted treatments of fungal and parasitic diseases would also...
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25620679
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{ "abstract": "Recombinant protein overexpression of large proteins in bacteria often results in insoluble and misfolded proteins directed to inclusion bodies. We report the application of shear stress in micrometer-wide, thin fluid films to refold boiled hen egg white lysozyme, recombinant hen egg white lysozyme, an...
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PMC6611431
pmc
7,581
{ "abstract": "Plant-derived carbon (C) is considered fundamental to understand the interaction between rhizosphere microbes and plants in terrestrial ecosystems. Biochar soil amendment may enhance plant performance via changing soil properties or microbial diversity in the rhizosphere. However, our knowledge of how ...
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{ "abstract": "Self-assembly of peptides is a powerful method of preparing nanostructured materials. These peptides frequently utilize charged groups as a convenient switch for controlling self-assembly in which pH or ionic strength determines the assembly state. Multidomain peptides have been previously designed wit...
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{ "abstract": "Genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs) can enable a wide range of important applications including environmental sensing and responsive engineered living materials. However, containment of GMMs to prevent environmental escape and satisfy regulatory requirements is a bottleneck for real-world use. W...
291
30018381
PMC6050331
pmc
7,584
{ "abstract": "Recent advances in the preparation of shape-shifting and size-growing nanostructures are hot topics in development of nanoscience, because many intelligent functions are always relied on their shape and dimension. Here we report a tunable manipulation of sequential self-assembled transformation in situ...
2,320
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PMC9416975
pmc
7,585
{ "abstract": "The continuous expansion of smart microelectronics has put forward higher requirements for energy conversion, mechanical performance, and biocompatibility of micro-energy storage devices (MESDs). Unique porosity, superior flexibility and comfortable breathability make the textile-based structure a grea...
2,488
35082431
PMC9123188
pmc
7,587
{ "abstract": "Hydrothermal plumes transport reduced chemical species and metals into the open ocean. Despite their considerable spatial scale and impact on biogeochemical cycles, niche differentiation of abundant microbial clades is poorly understood. Here, we analyzed the microbial ecology of two bathy- (Brothers v...
4,176
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PMC7000926
pmc
7,589
{ "abstract": "The complex and heterogeneous polyphenolic structure of lignin confers recalcitrance to plant cell walls and challenges biomass processing for agroindustrial applications. Recently, significant efforts have been made to alter lignin composition to overcome its inherent intractability. In this work, to ...
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37177184
PMC10181017
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Chitosan/PVA nanofibrous electroresponsive soft actuators were successfully obtained using an electrospinning process, which showed fast speed displacement under an acidic environment. Chitosan/PVA nanofibers were prepared and characterized, and their electroactive response was tested. Chitosan/PVA nan...
7,428
32670750
PMC7341084
pmc
7,593
{ "abstract": "Abstract The precise deployment of functional payloads to plant tissues is a new approach to help advance the fundamental understanding of plant biology and accelerate plant engineering. Here, the design of a silk‐based biomaterial is reported to fabricate a microneedle‐like device, dubbed “phytoinject...
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PMC9778616
pmc
7,594
{ "abstract": "Aiming at the path planning problem of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations when performing search tasks, this paper proposes a Double DQN-state splitting Q network (DDQN-SSQN) algorithm that combines state splitting and optimal state to complete the optimal path planning of UAV based on the Dee...
3,015
25302567
PMC4208098
pmc
7,596
{ "abstract": "Plasmids are important drivers of bacterial evolution, but it is challenging to understand how plasmids persist over the long term because plasmid carriage is costly. Classical models predict that horizontal transfer is necessary for plasmid persistence, but recent work shows that almost half of plasmi...
1,595
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PMC5702725
pmc
7,598
{ "abstract": "Root endophytes have been shown to have important roles in determining host fitness under periods of drought stress, and yet the effect of drought on the broader root endosphere bacterial community remains largely uncharacterized. In this study, we present phylogenetic profiles of bacterial communities...
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PMC8327927
pmc
7,599
{ "abstract": "The furan Diels–Alder (DA) cycloaddition reaction has become an important tool in green chemistry, being central to the sustainable synthesis of many chemical building blocks. The restriction to electron-rich furans is a significant limitation of the scope of suitable dienes, in particular hampering th...
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PMC8318111
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Background and Aims Knowledge of plant resource acquisition strategies is crucial for understanding the mechanisms mediating the responses of ecosystems to external nitrogen (N) input. However, few studies have considered the joint effects of above-ground (light) and below-ground (nutrient) re...
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PMC9539497
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Loss of habitats and native species, introduction of invasive species, and changing climate regimes lead to the homogenization of landscapes and communities, affecting the availability of habitats and resources for economically important guilds, such as pollinators. Understanding how pollinato...
6,485
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PMC7213722
pmc
7,602
{ "abstract": "Here we present the synthesis and characterization of two new conducting materials having a high electro-chemo-mechanical activity for possible applications as artificial muscles or soft smart actuators in biomimetic structures. Glucose-gelatin nanofiber scaffolds (CFS) were coated with polypyrrole (PP...
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PMC5938284
pmc
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{ "abstract": "NIR-responsive dynamic wrinkles with excellent reversibility and sensitivity are presented for the first time.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION Micro/nanoscale surface patterns that can endow materials with unique and intriguing physical, chemical, and biological properties have attracted growing scie...
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PMC5090589
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Novel low-dimensional thermoelectric (TE) materials suffer from poor mechanical reliability, which limits their applications, especially in mechanically harsh environments. Here, we propose a new concept, in which the novel, abundant, thermally stable TE-nanostructures are dispersed and then intimately...
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PMC8453988
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Corals are experiencing unprecedented decline from climate change‐induced mass bleaching events. Dispersal not only contributes to coral reef persistence through demographic rescue but can also hinder or facilitate evolutionary adaptation. Locations of reefs that are likely to survive future w...
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PMC5499630
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Single cells, as part of their evolution, acquired the ability to sense their internal and external environment, move to or away from a particular environment, the latter depending on the appropriate integration of the sensory input with motor ability. Clearly, the ability to sense stimuli must be a ra...
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PMC11028027
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Poplar stands as one of the primary afforestation trees globally. We successfully generated transgenic poplar trees characterized by enhanced biomass under identical nutrient conditions, through the overexpression of the pivotal nitrogen assimilation gene, pxAlaAT3. An environmental risk asses...
3,625
37332941
PMC10272320
pmc
7,614
{ "abstract": "There are two major problems in the world, fuel deficiency and environmental pollution by fossil fuels. Microalgae are regarded as one of the most feasible feedstocks for the manufacturing of biofuels and are used in the degradation of fossil fuel spills. The present study was possessed to investigate ...
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PMC9355359
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{ "abstract": "Tactile perception includes the direct response of tactile corpuscles to environmental stimuli and psychological parameters associated with brain recognition. To date, several artificial haptic-based sensing techniques can accurately measure physical stimuli. However, quantifying the psychological para...
2,297
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PMC9865060
pmc
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{ "abstract": "A novel superhydrophilic and underwater superoleophobic modified PVDF membrane for oil/water separation was fabricated through a modified blending approach. Pluronic F127 and amphiphilic copolymer P (MMA-AA) were directly blended with PVDF as a hydrophilic polymeric additive to prepare membranes via ph...
4,660
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PMC9992777
pmc
7,618
{ "abstract": "Significance Besides direct interactions, many creatures utilize indirect communication via pheromone-like shared memory fields, and exhibit a rich array of behavior. Field memory usually remains for a long time, affecting many individuals, or evaporates quickly, and thus updates itself over time. Ther...
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PMC12007882
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Motivation A challenging problem in microbiology is to determine nutritional requirements of microorganisms and culture them, especially for the microbial dark matter detected solely with culture-independent methods. The latter foster an increasing amount of genomic sequences that can be explo...
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PMC8215126
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{ "abstract": "Coral reefs are declining worldwide due to global changes in the marine environment. The increasing frequency of massive bleaching events in the tropics is highlighting the need to better understand the stages of coral physiological responses to extreme conditions. Moreover, like many other coastal reg...
4,570
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PMC10576140
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7,624
{ "abstract": "Significance Life on Earth has long been suggested to have originated in submarine hydrothermal systems. Although this hypothesis has been investigated by numerous prebiotic experiments, it remains a conundrum what geochemical mechanism led to accumulation of ammonia, an essential nitrogen species for ...
1,043
36164830
PMC9514845
pmc
7,625
{ "abstract": "Are animals’ preferences determined by absolute memories for options (e.g. reward sizes) or by their remembered ranking (better/worse)? The only studies examining this question suggest humans and starlings utilise memories for both absolute and relative information. We show that bumblebees’ learned pre...
2,995
40263516
PMC12015284
pmc
7,629
{ "abstract": "Driven by the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained hardware has become an increasingly critical challenge, which has propelled the emergence of TinyML as a viable solution. This study aims to deploy lightweight deep learning models fo...
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PMC9996783
pmc
7,630
{ "abstract": "The preparation methods of the superhydrophobic surface\nplay an\nimportant role in its application, but most of the existing preparation\nmethods are complicated in operation, high in cost, and polluting\nto the environment. In order to find a simple, rapid, low-cost, and\nnonenvironmentally polluting...
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PMC7960941
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7,632
{ "abstract": "Summary In this paper, we report a finding that substrate affects the adhesion of charged super-repellent surfaces. Water droplet impacting on a super-repellent surface produces surface charge, whose expression depends on the substrate. The charged super-repellent surface is sticky to droplets for a su...
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24945282
PMC4063634
pmc
7,637
{ "abstract": "Navigation of cells to the optimal environmental condition is critical for their survival and growth. Escherichia coli cells, for example, can detect various chemicals and move up or down those chemical gradients (i.e., chemotaxis). Using the same signaling machinery, they can also sense other extern...
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{ "abstract": "Land plants associate with a root microbiota distinct from the complex microbial community present in surrounding soil. The microbiota colonizing the rhizosphere (immediately surrounding the root) and the endophytic compartment (within the root) contribute to plant growth, productivity, carbon sequestr...
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PMC6125326
pmc
7,643
{ "abstract": "Microbial communities composition is largely shaped by interspecies competition or cooperation in most environments. Ecosystems are made of various dynamic microhabitats where microbial communities interact with each other establishing metabolically interdependent relationships. Very limited informatio...
4,124
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PMC8933433
pmc
7,644
{ "abstract": "Spike-timing-dependent plasticity(STDP) is a biological process of synaptic modification caused by the difference of firing order and timing between neurons. One of neurodynamical roles of STDP is to form a macroscopic geometrical structure in the neuronal state space in response to a periodic input by...
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PMC8521717
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Significance Marine dissolved organic matter, which originates from phytoplankton, holds as much carbon as Earth’s atmosphere; yet, the biological processes governing its fate are primarily studied under idealized laboratory conditions or through indirect measures such as genome sequencing. In this wor...
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27241731
PMC5217072
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7,647
{ "abstract": "Abstract The importance of organic nitrogen (N) for plant nutrition and productivity is increasingly being recognized. Here we show that it is not only the availability in the soil that matters, but also the effects on plant growth. The chemical form of N taken up, whether inorganic (such as nitrate) o...
4,753
25152885
PMC4126474
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7,649
{ "abstract": "Many research groups are interested in engineering the metabolism of cyanobacteria with the objective to convert solar energy, CO 2 , and water (perhaps also N 2 ) into commercially valuable products. Toward this objective, many challenges stand in the way before sustainable production can be realized....
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31561467
PMC6836247
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7,650
{ "abstract": "Stimuli-responsive conductive hydrogels have a wide range of applications due to their intelligent sensing of external environmental changes, which are important for smart switches, soft robotics, and flexible sensors. However, designing stimuli-responsive conductive hydrogels with logical operation, s...
3,992
19386918
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7,652
{ "abstract": "Networks of model neurons were constructed and their activity was predicted using an iterated map based solely on the phase-resetting curves (PRCs). The predictions were quite accurate provided that the resetting to simultaneous inputs was calculated using the sum of the simultaneously active conductan...
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35757031
PMC9218832
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{ "abstract": "We present for the first time highly stretchable and tough hydrogels with controlled light-triggered photodegradation. A double-network of alginate/polyacrylamide (PAAm) is formed by using covalently and ionically crosslinked subnetworks. The ionic Ca 2+ alginate interpenetrates a PAAm network covalen...
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35146390
PMC8819398
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{ "abstract": "Summary Understanding the sets of inter- and intraspecies interactions in microbial communities is a fundamental goal of microbial ecology. However, the study and quantification of microbial interactions pose several challenges owing to their complexity, dynamic nature, and the sheer number of unique i...
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36306787
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7,655
{ "abstract": "Microbial assemblages are omnipresent in the biosphere, forming communities on the surfaces of roots and rocks and within living tissues. These communities can exhibit strikingly beautiful compositional structures, with certain members reproducibly occupying particular spatiotemporal microniches. Despi...
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{ "abstract": "Microbial assemblages are omnipresent in the biosphere, forming communities on the surfaces of roots and rocks and within living tissues. These communities can exhibit strikingly beautiful compositional structures, with certain members reproducibly occupying particular spatiotemporal microniches. Despi...
377
39543675
PMC11566637
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{ "abstract": "Background Although numerous endophytic bacteria have been isolated and characterized from cadmium (Cd) hyperaccumulators, the contribution and potential application of the core endophytic microbiomes on facilitating phytoremediation were still lack of intensive recognition. Therefore, a 2-year field s...
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