POLLUTION MICROBES
November 1st, 2003
BY MONICA DOBIENEW biological research in the USA is developing a system that can be used in coal power plants, where microbes act as pollution filters that can eat away at emissions such as carbon dioxide. Scientists from the IBEA, (Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives), have pieced together 5,000 blocks of DNA to create a small artificial virus, or bacteriophage, that can sequester carbon dioxide and create hydrogen as a bi-product. The research is step closer to creating colonies of specially designed microbes that are 100 to 1,000-times larger than ...
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