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Science 14 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5844, pp. 1510 - 1511
DOI: 10.1126/science.1148538
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Sizing Up the Uncultivated Majority

Marcel M. M. Kuypers

A new imaging technique allows the metabolic activity of single microbial cells to be quantified in environmental samples.

The author is at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany. E-mail: mkuypers{at}mpi-bremen.de

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