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Memoirs of a gut bacterium

Engineered bacteria sense and record conditions in the gut.

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  1. Kotula, J.W. et al. Programmable bacteria detect and record an environmental signal in the mammalian gut. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111, 4838–4843 (2014).

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Nawy, T. Memoirs of a gut bacterium. Nat Methods 11, 474 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2953

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