Hear the words E. coli or salmonella and food poisoning comes to mind. Rapid detection of such bacteria is crucial in preventing outbreaks of foodborne illness. While the usual practice is to take ...

Label-free droplet-based bacterial growth phenotype screening. Credit: Liu Yang Effective, accurate and quick ways to screen and sort microbes are in short supply. Most methods available now rely on ...

Bacterial species help each other succeed more often than previously thought, according to a recent study (Sci. Adv. 2021, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi7159). In the study, more than 35% of pairings between ...

From left: Image of bacteria labeled with electrochemical markers, an electrochemical instrument to measure the data, and an image of the data displayed on a smartphone. Hear the words E. coli or ...

Effective, accurate and quick ways to screen and sort microbes are in short supply. Most methods available now rely on additional labeling steps to sort bacteria, which are typically time-consuming ...