In their everyday battles against harmful bacteria, physicians, food producers, and others need to know quickly which foe they’re facing. Yet the procedures currently used to identify bacterial colonies are often time-consuming and expensive.
WHO’S WHO FOR GERMS. A potentially cheap and fast new system can tell bad bacteria from good ones by analyzing patterns made as a laser beam penetrates microbial colonies.
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