{"id":217580,"date":"2025-07-10T22:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/illuminated-sugars-show-how-microbes-eat-the-oceans-carbon"},"modified":"2025-07-10T22:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:07:25","slug":"illuminated-sugars-show-how-microbes-eat-the-oceans-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/illuminated-sugars-show-how-microbes-eat-the-oceans-carbon","title":{"rendered":"Illuminated sugars show how microbes eat the ocean\u2019s carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/illuminated-sugars-show-how-microbes-eat-the-oceans-carbon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of chemists, microbiologists and ecologists has designed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect proteins or DNA inside an organism, for example) that lights up when a sugar is consumed.<\/p>\n<p>In the <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/i>, they now <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.5c07546\" target=\"_blank\">describe<\/a> how the probe helps researchers study the microscopic tug-of-war between algae and microbial degraders in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSugars are ubiquitous in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/marine+ecosystems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">marine ecosystems<\/a>, yet it\u2019s still unclear whether or how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microbes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microbes<\/a> can degrade them all,\u201d says Jan-Hendrik Hehemann from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the MARUM\u2014Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, both located in Bremen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of chemists, microbiologists and ecologists has designed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect proteins or DNA inside an organism, for example) that lights up when a sugar is consumed. In the Journal of the American Chemical Society, they now describe how the probe helps researchers study the microscopic tug-of-war between algae [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}