Natural Bacterial Communities Serve as Quantitative Geochemical Biosensors

Natural Bacterial Communities Serve as Quantitative Geochemical Biosensors

Biological sensors can be engineered to measure a wide range of environmental conditions. Here we show that statistical analysis of DNA from natural microbial communities can be used to accurately identify environmental contaminants, including uranium and nitrate at a nuclear waste site. In addition...

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Main Authors: Smith, Mark Burnham, Smillie, Chris S., Olesen, Scott Wilder, Preheim, Sarah P., Sanders, Matthew C., Yang, Joy Y., Alm, Eric J.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97056
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-9364
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4700-5987
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8202-5222
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5400-4945
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97056
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-9364
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4700-5987
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8202-5222
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5400-4945
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3385-9490

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