Sistema microbiano con código de barras para la procedencia de objetos de alta resolución

Jason Qian1,2,3, Zhi-Xiang Lu1,2, Christopher P Mancuso4

  • 1Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 6, 2020
PubMed
Resumen

Un nuevo sistema de esporas microbianas sintéticas puede determinar el origen de un objeto de forma rápida y precisa. Esta tecnología escalable ofrece un método seguro y eficiente para rastrear la procedencia en diversas aplicaciones.

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