Living sensor can warn of arsenic pollution

(Society for General Microbiology) Scientists studying arsenic pollution have discovered a living sensor that can spot contamination.

They have also discovered new bacteria that can clean up arsenic spills even in previously untreatable cold areas, microbiologists heard today (Monday Sept. 8, 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin.


 

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