Microplastics and nanoplastics have become emerging particulate anthropogenic pollutants
and rapidly turned into a field of growing scientific and public interest. These tiny plastic …

The function of cells in their native habitat often cannot be reliably predicted from genomic
data or from physiology studies of isolates. Traditional experimental approaches to study the …

A new lateral flow immunoassay strip (LFIA) combining sensitive detection and identification
of multiple bacteria remains a huge challenge. In this study, we first developed …

The advent of image-activated cell sorting and imaging-based cell picking has advanced our
knowledge and exploitation of biological systems in the last decade. Unfortunately, they …

Stable-isotope probing is widely used to study the function of microbial taxa in their natural
environment, but sorting of isotopically labelled microbial cells from complex samples for …

Microbial communities are essential to the function of virtually all ecosystems and
eukaryotes, including humans. However, it is still a major challenge to identify microbial cells …

Molecular ecology methods are now well established for the culture-independent
characterization of complex bacterial communities associated with various environmental …

Bacterial detection is a highly topical research area, because various fields of application
will benefit from the progress being made. Consequently, new and innovative strategies …

Highlights•Single cell Raman spectra (SCRS) are label-free and intrinsic biochemical
profiles of single microbial cells.•A number of bands of SCRS shift if cells are labeled with …

The potential of Raman-activated cell sorting (RACS) is inherently limited by conflicting
demands for signal quality and sorting throughput. Here, we present positive …