Bacteria with Metal Diet Discovered in Dirty Glassware | www.caltech.edu

Finding ends a century-long search for microbes that live on manganese.  

(Also helping to provide a better understanding of Groundwater geochemistry!)

Source: Bacteria with Metal Diet Discovered in Dirty Glassware | www.caltech.edu

(News Release, CalTech; July 15, 2020)

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Bacterial chemolithoautotrophy via manganese oxidation                (YU and LEADBETTER, 2020)

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