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Phenotypic heterogeneity optimizes trade-offs during adaptive deployment of the type VI secretion system

by Boris Taillefer, Florian Schattenberg, Thierry Doan, Susann Müller, Eric Cascales

The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a widespread nanoweapon deployed by bacteria to eliminate competitors in polymicrobial environments, allowing niche colonization or host invasion. Fluorescent microscopy recordings have shown that T6SS expression and/or activation is heterogeneous i...

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Life Identification Numbers: A strain nomenclature approach to aid epidemiological surveillance of bacterial pathogens

by Federica Palma, Melanie Hennart, Keith A. Jolley, Chiara Crestani, Kelly L. Wyres, Sebastien Bridel, Corin A. Yeats, Bryan Brancotte, Brice Raffestin, Sophia David, Margaret M.C. Lam, Radosław Izdebski, Virginie Passet, Carla Rodrigues, Martin Rethoret-Pasty, Audrey Combary, Solene Cottis, Martin C.J. Maiden, David M. Aanensen, Kathryn E. Holt, Alexis Criscuolo, Sylvain Br...


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Will the widespread use of large language models in scientific writing undermine scientists’ critical thinking?

by Lucas M. Bietti, Adrian Bangerter

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming scientific writing by expanding access and efficiency, yet it risks decoupling writing from thinking. Scientific writing is a core cognitive and epistemic practice that must be cultivated and preserved alongside AI use. The use of large language models is rapidly transforming the s...

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miR408-5p and miR408-3p cooperatively reduce cadmium uptake and accumulation in rice

by Fuxi Rong, Yaqi Zhang, Fangrui Ni, Lantian Zhang, Mingxin Yu, Zheyuan Hong, Muhammad Fahad, Yuxin Shen, Chuanjia Liu, Shengke Tian, Dezhi Wu, Liang Wu

In plants, a subset of miRNA precursors can yield multiple mature miRNAs; however, how they simultaneously regulate a single biological process remains poorly understood. Cadmium (Cd) is a non-essential heavy metal toxi...

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Olfactory bulb-cortex oscillations encode perceived odor intensity rather than concentration

by Frans Nordén, Irene Zanettin, Mikael Lundqvist, Artin Arshamian, Johan N. Lundström

Perceived stimulus intensity is a core feature of sensory experience, yet how it emerges in the human olfactory system remains unknown. Here, we demonstrate that oscillatory dynamics in the human olfactory bulb (OB) and piriform cortex (PC) primarily encode subjective perceived intensi...

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