Microbial individuality: how single-cell heterogeneity enables population level strategies. [PDF]
, 2015 Much of our knowledge of microbial life is only a description of average population behaviours, but modern technologies provide a more inclusive view and reveal that microbes also have individuality.
Locke, James CW, Martins, Bruno MC
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Design of a multicellular feedback control strategy in a synthetic bacterial consortium [PDF]
2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2016 Living organisms employ endogenous negative feedback loops to maintain homeostasis despite environmental fluctuations. An intriguing challenge in Synthetic Biology is that of designing and implementing synthetic circuits to control host cells' behavior, thus mimicking what natural evolution has refined and conserved.
Fiore G. +6 more
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An In Situ Embedded B‐MOF Sponge With Shape‐Memory for All‐in‐One Diabetic Wound Therapy
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.A smart shape‐memory sponge dressing (P1A3@B‐MOF) is developed for accelerated diabetic wound healing. It achieves pH‐responsive corelease of Zn2+ and salvianolic acid B, synergistically providing antibacterial action, repolarizing macrophages to the M2 phenotype, and promoting angiogenesis.
Hai Zhou +11 more
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A serine sensor for multicellularity in a bacterium [PDF]
, 2014 We report the discovery of a simple environmental sensing mechanism for biofilm formation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis that operates without the involvement of a dedicated RNA or protein.
Bradshaw, Niels +6 more
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Bacteria‐Responsive Nanostructured Drug Delivery Systems for Targeted Antimicrobial Therapy
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Bacteria‐responsive nanocarriers are designed to release antimicrobials only in the presence of infection‐specific cues. This selective activation ensures drug release precisely at the site of infection, avoiding premature or indiscriminate release, and enhancing efficacy.
Guillermo Landa +3 more
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Earthworm coelomocyte extracellular traps : structural and functional similarities with neutrophil NETs [PDF]
, 2018 ROD UJ /
Joanna Homa
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Imaging of bacterial multicellular behaviour in biofilms in liquid by atmospheric scanning electron microscopy [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2016 AbstractBiofilms are complex communities of microbes that attach to biotic or abiotic surfaces causing chronic infectious diseases. Within a biofilm, microbes are embedded in a self-produced soft extracellular matrix (ECM), which protects them from the host immune system and antibiotics.
Shinya Sugimoto +9 more
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Non‐Functionalized Graphene as an Electrical Sensing Surface for Bacterial Detection
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.Pathogenic bacteria detection in food remains a major public health concern, driving the need for rapid, cost‐effective, and portable detection systems. This review focuses on the use of non‐functionalized graphene as an electrical sensing surface for bacterial detection, highlighting their unique properties, sensing mechanism, and current developments.
Jazmin Berthe +4 more
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The water clock of Proteus mirabilis paces colony periodic and synchronous swarming [PDF]
, 2010 For decades, the origin of the concentric ring pattern of bacterial swarming colonies has puzzled microbiologists. Thanks to _in situ_ and real time infrared microspectroscopy and the brilliance of the infrared beam at SOLEIL synchrotron, we demonstrate ...
Elodie Lahaye +2 more
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Symbiosis As The Way Of Eukaryotic Life: The Dependent Co-Origination Of The Body [PDF]
, 2014 Molecular analyses of symbiotic relationships are challenging our biological definitions of individuality and supplanting them with a new notion of normal part whole relationships. This new notion is that of a \u27holobiont\u27, a consortium of organisms
Gilbert, Scott F.
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