Soil pretreatment boosts protein recovery for microbial community studies
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have significantly boosted the recovery and identification of proteins expressed by soil-dwelling microbes over what was previously possible, thanks to a new method of soil pretreatment being used at EMSL in Richland, Wash. The new strategy for processing samples reveals additional insight into the function of microbial communities in their native environments.