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Bacterial biofilms

Sampling the rainbow

Nature Chemical Biology volume 19, pages 928–929 (2023)Cite this article

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Bacterial biofilms are resilient multicellular communities with spatially complex localized interactions that remain largely uncharacterized. A new approach called RainbowSeq enables transcriptional profiling in biofilms with increased spatial resolution.

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Fig. 1: RainbowSeq enables the mapping of different gene-expression zones in bacterial biofilms.

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