FIRST GLIMPSE. “Metagenomics has become almost a new kind of instrument—a sort of “genomoscope”—that allows researchers to see the prokaryotic world for the first time. The view is stunning. It is essentially Humboldt in a new biosphere: wherever the genomoscope is pointed, new discoveries swarm into view.”
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