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Fluorescent RNA sensor gets 10 times more sensitive for water safety
- May 18, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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Water is largely tasteless to humans. But to the microbial world, it is anything but. Bacteria that live in contaminated environments have spent millions of years evolving exquisitely sensitive molecular detectors—proteins that latch onto specific chemical threats and trigger a cellular response.
Originally published at Phys.org