[biorxiv.org] Microbial communities living on and in rocks operate at the microscale, where interactions with minerals fundamentally shape community structure and function. Yet the relationship between micron scale mineralogical configurations […]
Raman microspectroscopy
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Novel Raman Signature Evidences An Unknown Cyanobacterial Pigment
From the first botanical characterization of cyanobacteria about two centuries ago to contemporary studies, only two categories of extracellular UV-screening pigments have been considered: scytonemin which is very well described […]
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Offworld Life Science Instrumentation: Single-cell Measurement Of Microbial Growth Rate With Raman Microspectroscopy
Rates of microbial activity and growth are fundamental to understanding environmental geochemistry and ecology. However, measuring the heterogeneity of microbial activity at the single-cell level, especially within complex populations and […]
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Tricorder Tech: Quantitative Measurement Of Microbial Growth Rate With Raman Microspectroscopy
Rates of microbial activity and growth are fundamental to understanding environmental geochemistry and ecology.