BOSTON
— Scientists aiming to clean up soil contaminated with TNT may get more bang
for their buck if they call in the microbial cavalry.
A bacterium isolated from a Yellowstone
hot spring aids in breaking down the explosive chemical, preliminary
experiments suggest. Chemical engineer Catherine VanEngelen of the
Thermobiology Institute at MontanaStateUniversity
in Bozeman presented the work June 4 in Boston at a meeting of the
American Society for Microbiology.
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