THOR wrangles complex microbiomes into a model for improving them
Saturday, March 9, 2019 - 10:20
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have developed a community they named THOR, three species of bacteria isolated from soybean roots and grown together. The complex community of microbes developed new behaviors together that couldn't be predicted from the individual members alone -- they grew tougher structures known as biofilms, changed how they moved across their environment, and controlled the release of a novel antibiotic.