This month’s Under the Lens discusses a recent advance in the imaging of anaerobic gut bacteria using nanaerobic growth conditions.
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Jahn, M.T., Krishna Kumar, R. Nanaerobic imaging breathes new life into gut microbiota microscopy. Nat Rev Microbiol 19, 224 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-021-00523-w
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