1. Visions for our future regional electricity system: Citizen preferences in four EU countries 

   Mey F.; Lilliestam J.; Wolf I.; et al. (2024)

   iScience

   As climate targets tighten, all countries must transition toward a renewable electricity system, but conflicts about generation and infrastructure deployment impede transition progress. Although the triggers of opposition are well studied, what people want remains understudied. We survey citizen preferences for a renewable electricity future through a conjoint analysis among 4,103 individuals in Denmark, Portugal, Poland, and Germany. ...

   Journal Article

2. Light Color-Controlled pH-Adjustment of Aqueous Solutions Using Engineered Proteoliposomes 

   Harder D.; Ritzmann N.; Ucurum Z.; et al. (2024)

   Advanced Science

   Controlling the pH at the microliter scale can be useful for applications in research, medicine, and industry, and therefore represents a valuable application for synthetic biology and microfluidics. The presented vesicular system translates light of different colors into specific pH changes in the surrounding solution. It works with the two light-driven proton pumps bacteriorhodopsin and blue light-absorbing proteorhodopsin Med12, that ...

   Journal Article

3. Prophage maintenance is determined by environment-dependent selective sweeps rather than mutational availability 

   Bailey Z.M.; Igler C.; Wendling C.C. (2024)

   Current Biology

   Prophages, viral sequences integrated into bacterial genomes, can be beneficial and costly. Despite the risk of prophage activation and subsequent bacterial death, active prophages are present in most bacterial genomes. However, our understanding of the selective forces that maintain prophages in bacterial populations is limited. Combining experimental evolution with stochastic modeling, we show that prophage maintenance and loss are ...

   Journal Article

4. A highly optimized human in vitro translation system 

   Bothe A.; Ban N. (2024)

   Cell Reports Methods

   In vitro translation is an important method for studying fundamental aspects of co- and post-translational gene regulation, as well as for protein expression in the laboratory and on an industrial scale. Here, by re-examining and improving a human in vitro translation system (HITS), we were able to develop a minimal system where only four components are needed to supplement human cell lysates. Functional characterization of our improved ...

   Journal Article

5. A Causal Framework to Quantify the Robustness of Mathematical Reasoning with Language Models 

   Stolfo, Alessandro; Jin, Zhijing; Shridhar, Kumar; et al. (2023)

   PROCEEDINGS OF THE 61ST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, ACL 2023, VOL 1

   We have recently witnessed a number of impressive results on hard mathematical reasoning problems with language models. At the same time, the robustness of these models has also been called into question; recent works have shown that models can rely on shallow patterns in the problem description when generating a solution. Building on the idea of behavioral testing, we propose a novel framework, which pins down the causal effect of various ...

   Conference Paper

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