The domestic chicken is a common model organism for human biological research and of
course also forms the basis of a global protein industry. Recent methodological advances …

The minute photosynthetic prokaryote Prochlorococcus, which was discovered about 10
years ago, has proven exceptional from several standpoints. Its tiny size (0.5 to 0.7 μm in …

The handling of single cells is of great importance in applications such as cell line
development or single-cell analysis, eg, for cancer research or for emerging diagnostic …

Flow cytometry is rapidly becoming a routine methodology in aquatic microbial ecology. The
combination of simple to use bench-top flow cytometers and highly fluorescent nucleic acid …

Ergothioneine (ERG) is an unusual thio-histidine betaine amino acid that has potent
antioxidant activities. It is synthesised by a variety of microbes, especially fungi (including in …

There is an urgent need to develop simple and fast antimicrobial susceptibility tests (ASTs)
that allow informed prescribing of antibiotics. Here, we describe a label-free AST that can …

This review deals with the prospective, experimental documentation of horizontal gene
transfer (HGT) and its role in real-time, local adaptation. We have focused on plasmids and …

Blood in healthy organisms is seen as a 'sterile'environment: it lacks proliferating microbes.
Dormant or not-immediately-culturable forms are not absent, however, as intracellular …

The quality analysis of water, pharmaceutical and environmental compounds is a basic
subject for human health. The presence of low-quality drugs, biological toxins and chemical …

The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …