Bacterial biofilms are resilient multicellular communities with spatially complex localized interactions that remain largely uncharacterized. A new approach called RainbowSeq enables transcriptional profiling in biofilms with increased spatial resolution.
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Hadjifrangiskou, M. Sampling the rainbow. Nat Chem Biol 19, 928–929 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-023-01305-6
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