Bjorn Shockey
@synbiobjorn.bsky.social
PhD Student in Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology at Rice University | “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change” -Charles Darwin
Reposted by Bjorn Shockey
We developed an RNA enzyme that adds barcodes to 16S rRNA to track bacterial DNA exchange in wastewater, identifying plasmid hosts via sequencing. This surpasses fluorescence methods by enabling multi-sample/plasmid analysis. Paper: go.nature.com/440gL5E. More technical details: shorturl.at/Y4KnA
Information storage across a microbial community using universal RNA barcoding - Nature Biotechnology
Barcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a recording of gene transfer events without requiring translation.
go.nature.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
We developed an RNA enzyme that adds barcodes to 16S rRNA to track bacterial DNA exchange in wastewater, identifying plasmid hosts via sequencing. This surpasses fluorescence methods by enabling multi-sample/plasmid analysis. Paper: go.nature.com/440gL5E. More technical details: shorturl.at/Y4KnA