Background/Objectives: Holotomography is an advanced imaging technique that enables high-resolution, three-dimensional visualization of microscopic specimens without the need for fixation or staining.
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Microbial Biomining From Asteroidal Material Onboard The International Space Station
Expanding human space exploration necessitates technologies for sustainable local resource acquisition, to overcome unviable resupply missions. Asteroids, some of which rich in metals like platinum group elements, are promising targets.
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Geometry Shapes Life
Cell–cell coupling repositions the mitotic wave origin to the margin and prevents desynchronization.
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A Gene-Free Minimal System for Synthetic Quorum Sensing in Protocell Communities
Synthetic communication networks are key to engineering life-like behaviors in artificial cells. Inspired by natural quorum sensing, we developed a coacervate-based system that exhibits quorum-sensing-like communication, driven by an autocatalytic […]
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Artemis II AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response)
The AVATAR (A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response) investigation will use organ-on-a-chip devices, or organ chips, to study a effects of increased radiation and microgravity on human health.
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Ultra-low Noise Mid-infrared Detector Could Help Detect Biosignatures On Exoplanets
The mid-infrared (MIR) wavelength range, from 5 to 25 micrometers, is an important regime for astrophysics as it can be used to detect the biosignatures of life that may exist […]
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AI Learns From The Tree Of Life To Support Rare Disease Diagnosis
Editor’s note: If we aspire to mount expeditions to new worlds and then embrace the task of characterizing and quantifying whatever life forms we find, the ability to map and […]
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Generative Design Of Novel Bacteriophages With Genome Language Models
Editor’s note: As we expand outward from Earth to other worlds we are almost certainly going to encounter things we did not expect to find – things that are unlikely […]
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Self-assembled Versus Biological Pattern Formation In Geology
Both abiotic self-organization and biological mechanisms have been put forward as the origin of a number of geological patterns.
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When Light Teaches Materials To Self-organize: Writing Nature-like 3D Nanowrinkles
Wrinkles are everywhere in nature. They shape the surface of leaves, insect wings, and even the tiny finger-like structures that line the human intestine. These patterns are not just decorative. […]