New paper in PNAS

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A DOME team encompassing David Berry, Alexander Loy, Arno Schintlmeister, Jochen Reichert, and Michael Wagner used NanoSIMS to identify mucus-degrading bacteria in the mouse gut. Together with collaborators providing expertise in IR-MS measurements and animal experiments, they showed that this important process is influenced also by non-degrading community members. The technique presented in this paper allows for the first time direct functional investigation of microbes in the gut on a single cell level.