Using Ultrasound to Image Bacteria in vivo: Acoustic Reporter Genes
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 19, 2018, 1:38 p.m.
...Knowing where bacteria are located within their host is often key to understanding their role in both...reporters are not as well suited for imaging organs located deep in the body, like the gastrointestinal tract...lab recently discovered that gas vesicles also scatter sound waves and therefore produce signals in ultrasound... experiment to demonstrate the most exciting application for ARG’s: in vivo imaging. Specifically, arg1...