{
  "id": 17153845,
  "title": "Automated anaerobic cultivation and phenotyping of diverse chain-elongating bacteria",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/automated-anaerobic-cultivation-and-phenotyping-of-diverse-chain",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.28.762647v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Anaerobic bacteria perform diverse metabolic functions with considerable biotechnological potential, yet their physiology remains poorly characterized because conventional anaerobic cultivation is low throughput. Here, we developed a Platform for Automated Cultivation of Microbial Anaerobes (PACMAN) and applied it to systematically characterize the physiology of diverse chain-elongating bacteria…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}