Microbial communities are increasingly utilized in biotechnology. Efficiency and productivity
in many of these applications depends on the presence of cooperative interactions between …

Cooperation and conflict in microorganisms is being recognized as an important factor in the
organization and function of microbial communities. Many of the cooperative behaviors …

One of the major challenges in modern biology is to understand how the molecular
components of a living cell operate in a highly noisy environment. What are the specific …

An ultrasound‐based platform is established to prepare homogenous arrays of giant
unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) or red blood cell (RBCs), or hybrid assemblies of GUV/RBCs …

Quorum sensing is usually thought of as a collective behavior in which all members of a
population partake. However, over the last decade, several reports of phenotypic …

Living cells detect and process external signals using signaling pathways that are affected
by random fluctuations. These variations cause the behavior of individual cells to fluctuate …

Quorum sensing is described as a widespread cell density-dependent signaling mechanism
in bacteria. Groups of cells coordinate gene expression by secreting and responding to …

In most ecosystems, a large part of the organic carbon is not solubilized in the water phase.
Rather, it occurs as particles made of aggregated hydrophobic and/or polymeric natural or …

Quorum sensing (QS) is a cell–cell communication system found in many bacterial species,
commonly controlling secreted co-operative traits, including extracellular digestive enzymes …

Quorum sensing (QS) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa coordinates the expression of virulence
factors, such as exoproteases and siderophores, that are public goods utilized by the whole …