The blue soup saga

Written by Tristan Free (Senior Editor)
Interviews Microbiology PCR and sequencing

The 28th of February 2023 was an ordinary day in the household of Elinne Becket (right), Principal Investigator of the Becket lab at California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM; CA, USA), until some spring cleaning unearthed from the depths of the fridge an old soup that had turned a brilliant shade of blue. The resulting social media reaction and subsequent investigations to uncover the microbial source of the color tore through the microbiology community until all involved were desperate for an answer to the question: what mysterious microbe is responsible for this dazzling blue? Hot on the delivery of some...

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