Illuminated sugars show how microbes eat the ocean's carbon

Thursday, July 10, 2025 - 16:51 in Biology & Nature

A team of chemists, microbiologists and ecologists has designed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect proteins or DNA inside an organism, for example) that lights up when a sugar is consumed.

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