{
  "id": 19500523,
  "title": "Moderately acid-tolerant Nitrospira strains obtained by single-colony isolation on plates",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/moderately-acid-tolerant-nitrospira-strains-obtained-by-single-colony",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.11.10.765609v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nitrospira are difficult to cultivate, and pure cultures are mainly obtained by dilution-to-extinction combined with other methods, a process that usually takes years to over a decade. Here, we isolated three Nitrospira strains from activated sludge and sediment within one year using conventional single-colony isolation. Pure cultures of two strains could grow and reform single colonies within…",
  "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."
}