Depiction of the diatom Conticribra weissflogii (red) and the sugar polymer structures it secretes (blue). Credit: Marlene Reich, 2024 A group of chemists, microbiologists, and ecologists has developed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect e.g. proteins or DNA inside an organism) that glows when a sugar is broken down. Writing in the journal JACS , the researchers describe how this innovation makes it possible to observe the microscopic competition between algae and the microbes that

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