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Rice University

Gene 1

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Representative fluorescence images of cells growing in the open microfluidic device developed at Rice University show how transcriptional circuits allow single-cell microbes to form networks that spur collective action, even in large communities. The spatial arrangement of two strains of color-coded cells eventually stabilizes.

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Courtesy of The Bennett Lab/Nature Chemical Biology

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