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Subject: BBC News | SCI/TECH | Bacteria with a silver lining
Earlier this week, while reading in John Emsley's fascinating
book (on the elements in the Periodic Table) entitled,
"Natures' Building Blocks", I came across his reference to the
discovery/isolation of the bacteria..... pseudomonas
stutzeri. Later, I conducted some web investigations and one
of the very interesting posts is included here. While I was
aware of how this bacteria was, originally, discovered in a
Canadian silver mine----and also, how it was able to sequester
metallic silver in such a unique manner.....using a cell-wall
isolation technique.....I was totally unaware of some of the
other capabilities of this "silver-tolerant" bacteria.
I hope list members find this of interest.
Sincerely, Brooks Bradley.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_533000/533416.stm
