Publications by authors named "S BILLER"

Telehealth has been shown as a tool to improve health access and outcomes in rural areas. There is less literature examining the usability and utility of telehealth by rural and low-income populations. Existing literature focuses on examining telehealth usability for specific telehealth platforms and specific use cases.

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We present the genomes of nine cultured microbes isolated from two freshwater sites in Wellesley, MA. The dataset is useful for exploring genomic diversity among freshwater taxa, including , , , and .

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  • The study examines how a certain type of microbe, when exposed to periods of darkness, can develop tolerance through co-cultivation with a heterotrophic microbe.
  • Results show that the dark-tolerant microbes became larger, had less chlorophyll, and shifted from photosynthesis to respiration, while the heterotroph adapted by using more organic acids instead of sugars.
  • The research highlights the enhanced metabolic exchange between the two microbes, indicating a strong coupling that helps them survive in low-light conditions.
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is a diverse picocyanobacterial genus and the most abundant phototroph on Earth. Its photosynthetic diversity divides it into high-light (HL)- or low-light (LL)-adapted groups representing broad phylogenetic grades-each composed of several monophyletic clades. Here, we physiologically characterize four new strains isolated from below the deep chlorophyll maximum in the North Pacific Ocean.

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In the ocean, free-living bacteria exist in a dilute world where direct physical interactions between cells are relatively rare. How then do they exchange genetic information via horizontal gene transfer (HGT)? Lücking et al. have explored the world of marine 'protected extracellular DNA' (peDNA), and find that extracellular vesicles (EVs) are likely to play an important role.

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