Abstract
Microfluidics, lithographic fabrications processes, and nanotechnology are major new analytical components that are helping to change how scientists study microorganisms, sometimes enabling the study of individual cells instead of massive numbers of cells, according to Steven Quake of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. These analytic tools, in turn, are enabling researchers to address questions that were beyond the scope of conventional microbiology and already are illuminating the “dark matter” of microbiology, namely those species that so far cannot be grown in culture, he says. Quake spoke during the opening session, “Technology and Revolutions in Microbiology,” of the 110th ASM General Meeting last May in San Diego.
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