{"id":27969,"date":"2016-07-18T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/gas-sensors-see-through-soil-to-analyze-microbial-interactions"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:33:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:33:42","slug":"gas-sensors-see-through-soil-to-analyze-microbial-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/gas-sensors-see-through-soil-to-analyze-microbial-interactions","title":{"rendered":"Gas sensors \u2018see\u2019 through soil to analyze microbial interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gas-sensors-see-through-soil-to-analyze-microbial-interactions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can serve many uses such as geneology, etc. However, the bigger advancement will be with criminal\/ legal investigations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Rice University researchers have developed gas biosensors to \u201csee\u201d into soil and allow them to follow the behavior of the microbial communities within.<\/p>\n<p>In a study in the American Chemical Society\u2019s journal <i>Environmental Science and Technology<\/i>, the Rice team described using genetically engineered bacteria that release methyl halide gases to monitor microbial gene expression in <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/soil\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">soil<\/a> samples in the lab.<\/p>\n<p>The bacteria are programmed using synthetic biology to release gas to report when they exchange DNA through <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/horizontal+gene+transfer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">horizontal gene transfer<\/a>, the process by which organisms share genetic traits without a parent-to-child relationship. The biosensors allow researchers to monitor such processes in real time without having to actually see into or disturb a lab soil sample.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-07-gas-sensors-soil-microbial-interactions.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;07-gas-sensors-soil-microbial-interactions.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can serve many uses such as geneology, etc. However, the bigger advancement will be with criminal\/ legal investigations. Rice University researchers have developed gas biosensors to \u201csee\u201d into soil and allow them to follow the behavior of the microbial communities within. In a study in the American Chemical Society\u2019s journal Environmental Science and Technology, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27969","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66879,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27969\/revisions\/66879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}