MEDIA AVAILABILITY: New approach may improve study of hard-to-grow, disease-related microorganisms

Researchers for the first time have used a combination of microfluidics and genomics to fish out a specific gut bacterium from the sea of trillions of microbes in the human microbiome. The new method has broad applications for isolating and studying many now impossible or hard-to-grow microorganisms implicated in health and disease, according to a study published online the week of June 23, 2014, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Source: NHGRI Press Releases - June 27, 2014 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news