A bacterial record collection

Carolina Tropini

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2022.06.002

A bacterial record collection

Cell Host Microbe. 2022 Jul 13;30(7):905-907. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2022.06.002.

Author

Carolina Tropini¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: carolina.tropini@ubc.ca.

PMID: 35834961
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2022.06.002

Abstract

Gut microbiota transcripts are notoriously hard to record accurately during perturbations because it is difficult to collect the signals near the source and at the time of variation. A recent study by Schmidt et al. in Science demonstrates a technology that overcomes these barriers.

MeSH terms

Bacteria* / genetics
Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Gene Expression Profiling / methods*