New imaging approach for studying C. diff (IMAGE)
Caption
A new imaging approach used microscopic glowing tags to reveal gene activity in individual C. diff cells in gut tissue samples from infected mice. Here, a resulting image shows a round cross-section of inflamed gut tissue. Tiny green squiggles represent C. diff cells where toxin genes are turned on throughout the tissue layers colored yellow or cyan. The magenta highlights the subset of rod-shaped C. diff that do not express the toxin genes.
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Image: Nicholas DiBenedetto, CC by NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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