Translational efficiency guides microbial community remodeling

While metagenomics provides compositional insights, its correlative nature limits causal community remodeling. Overcoming this, in a recent Cell study, Moyne et al. introduced the Microbial Interaction and Niche Determination (MIND) framework. By leveraging translational efficiency to map resource competition and niche partitioning, MIND establishes a mechanistic blueprint for rational engineering.