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Caution required for Gulf oil spill clean-up

— 5 May 2010 10:18 | Environment

With millions of gallons crude oil being spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the focus now is on shutting down the leak. However, in the cleanup efforts…

Hidden diversity in key environmental cleanup microbes found by systems biology assessment

— 1 Sep 2009 13:48 | Biology

Researchers have completed the first thorough, system-level assessment of the diversity of an environmentally important genus of microbes known as Shewanella. Microbes belonging to…

New microbe strain makes more electricity, faster

— 29 Jul 2009 17:16 | Biology

In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, Derek Lovley and colleagues…

Bioremediation to keep atrazine from waterways

— 17 Feb 2009 10:50 | Environment

Farmers around the world are expected to benefit from the successful trial of an enzyme that breaks down the herbicide, atrazine, in run-off water. 'When we added the enzyme to a holding…

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