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The Spodoptera frugiperda L-aminoacylase degrades fatty acid-amino acid conjugates and promotes larvae growth on Zea mays

Communications Biology
Oral secretions (OS) contain diverse functional molecules that play important roles in the molecular interactions between insect herbivores and their host plants.
Bin Li, Mei Luo, Xiaofeng Liu, Wangpeng Shi, Jinfeng Qi, Shaoqun Zhou, Guirong Wang   +6 more
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Swelling‐Programmed Topographical Guidance for Dynamic Spheroid Self‐Assembly via a Mechanochemical Hydrogel Niche

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A swelling‐programmed micropatterned hydrogel guides adherent cells through a controlled transition from cell–matrix anchoring to cadherin‐mediated cell–cell compaction, enabling rapid assembly of high‐viability spheroids with defined size and morphology.
Han Gyeol Nam, Seon Yeong Chae, Young Woo Kwon, Hye Jin Heo, Hye Rin Lee, Ji Hyeok Lee, Dong‐Wook Han, Yun Hak Kim, Suck Won Hong   +8 more
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Structure Formation in Butterfly Scales: Interplay of Genetic Control, Mechanical Instabilities, and Dynamic Material Properties

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Butterfly wing scales are intricate cuticular functional nanosctructures. This perspective suggests that spatially varying material properties, cytoskeletal constraints, and growth‐driven mechanical instabilities shape the resulting nanoscale architectures created from single cells.
Anupama Prakash, Victoria Lloyd, Yi Yang, Anna‐Lee Jessop, Anthony McDougal, Primož Pirih, Guillaume Duclos, Andrew Parnell, Mathias Kolle, Nicola J. Nadeau, Bodo D. Wilts   +10 more
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Nanodiamond Quantum Sensors for Probing Free Radical Biology

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Free radicals play key roles in cellular signaling and disease but remain difficult to measure in living systems. Nanodiamonds (NDs) with nitrogen‐vacancy (NV) centers enable quantum sensing of local magnetic noise via T₁ relaxometry, providing nondestructive radical detection in living cells.
Qi Lu, Yingke Wu, Tanja Weil
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Differential induction of defense genes in hexaploid wheat roots by the plant-parasitic nematodes Pratylenchus neglectus and P. thornei.

PLoS ONE
Pratylenchus neglectus and P. thornei are among the most destructive root lesion nematodes of wheat in the Pacific Northwest, United States of America and throughout the world.
Patricia A Okubara, Richard M Sharpe, Amy B Peetz, Xianran Li, Inga A Zasada   +4 more
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Robust Polymer Hydrogels Improve Electric‐Fish‐Inspired Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electric‐fish‐inspired hydrogel batteries based on ion‐concentration gradients offer an attractive route to soft power sources; however, the poor mechanical properties of existing hydrogels limit device assembly and performance. Here, we report poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate hydrogels that enable ion‐gradient batteries composed of
Nick Zahnd, Satyajit Das, John Marc C. Puguan, Carolina Pierucci, Michael Mayer, Christoph Weder   +5 more
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Spatially Modulated Morphotropic Phase Boundaries in a Compressively Strained Multiferroic Thin Film

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The coexisting rhombohedral‐like (R′, MA) and tetragonal‐like (T′, MC) monoclinic phases in compressively strained bismuth ferrite thin films exhibit exceptional piezoelectric and magnetic properties. While previous studies have largely focused on probing the morphotropic phase boundaries (MPBs) comprising ordered R′/T′ twins, their self ...
Ting‐Ran Liu, Xiangwei Guo, Sajid Husain, Maya Ramesh, Pushpendra Gupta, Darrell Schlom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Yu‐Tsun Shao   +7 more
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Tail assembly interference is a common strategy in bacterial antiviral defenses

Nature Communications
Many bacterial immune systems recognize phage structural components to activate antiviral responses, without inhibiting the function of the phage component.
Lingchen He, Laura Miguel-Romero, Jonasz B. Patkowski, Nasser Alqurainy, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Tiago R. D. Costa, Alfred Fillol-Salom, José R. Penadés   +7 more
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Dual‐Programmable Architected Magnetic Soft Materials: Tuning Mechano–Electric Responses by Inverse Design

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Materials that can deform, sense, and autonomously generate power in response to wireless magnetic fields, through both magnetic‐actuated shape transformation and charge generation, are an emerging focus in advanced functional materials research.
Zhi Zhao, Xiaojia Shelly Zhang
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Assembly of Cell‐Seeded 3D Printed Hydrogel Modules with Perfusable Channel Networks

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Macroscale assembly was utilized to prepare perfusable tissue constructs from individually 3D printed hydrogel modules with embedded branched channel networks and port arrays for cell seeding. Novel multi‐material bioreactors were fabricated to facilitate the gluing of individual modules and the perfusion culture of assembled modular constructs seeded ...
Zachary J. Geffert, Daniel Fougnier, Bo Van Durme, Jenna Grutzmacher, Ryan Clarke, Susan Cao, Zhenghao Li, Ujjwal Aryal, Jason A. Horton, Sandra Van Vlierberghe, Pranav Soman   +10 more
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