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The field of engineered living materials lies at the intersection of materials science and synthetic biology with the aim of develo** materials that can sense and respond to the environment. In this study, w...
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Nanotechnology for coral reef conservation, restoration and rehabilitation
The mounting environmental pressure on coral reefs calls for a rapid push towards innovative actions. Nanotechnology could help understand and protect present-day reefs to ensure their survival.
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The morphological architecture of photosynthetic corals modulates the light capture and functioning of the coral-algal symbiosis on shallow-water corals. Since corals can thrive on mesophotic reefs under extre...
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Open AccessSynthetic algal-bacteria consortia for space-efficient microalgal growth in a simple hydrogel system
Photosynthetic microalgae are an attractive source of food, fuel, or nutraceuticals, but commercial production of microalgae is limited by low spatial efficiency. In the present study we developed a simple pho...
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Open AccessBionic 3D printed corals
Corals have evolved as optimized photon augmentation systems, leading to space-efficient microalgal growth and outstanding photosynthetic quantum efficiencies. Light attenuation due to algal self-shading is a ...
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Open AccessTools for studying growth patterns and chemical dynamics of aggregated Pseudomonas aeruginosa exposed to different electron acceptors in an alginate bead model
In chronic infections, bacterial pathogens typically grow as small dense cell aggregates embedded in a matrix consisting of, e.g., wound bed sludge or lung mucus. Such biofilm growth mode exhibits extreme tole...
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Open AccessHeat generation and light scattering of green fluorescent protein-like pigments in coral tissue
Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-like pigments have been proposed to have beneficial effects on coral photobiology. Here, we investigated the relationships between green fluorescence, coral heating and tissue o...
