In this issue ofCell Chemical Biology, Pezacki and co-workers (Sherratt et al., 2017) report a simple method to metabolically label viable bacteria, which can be used to detect and capture foodborne pathogens. The method may also find many other applications because it can be used to recover live cells, pathogens and non-pathogens, from various biomedical and environmental samples.

中文翻译：

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想要活着：找到食物中的细菌

在本期《细胞化学生物学》（Cell Chemical Biology）中，Pezacki及其同事（Sherratt等人，2017年）报告了一种简单的方法来对活菌进行代谢标记，该细菌可用于检测和捕获食源性病原体。该方法还可以找到许多其他应用，因为它可用于从各种生物医学和环境样品中回收活细胞，病原体和非病原体。