Bioremediation of industrial sites and petrochemical spillages often involves finding microbes that can gorge themselves on the toxic chemicals. This leaves behind a non-toxic residue or mineralized material. Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution, researchers in China describe studies of a new microbe that can digest hydrocarbons. The activity consists of enzymes from the bacterium Bacillus cereus DQ01, which can digest the hydrocarbon n-hexadecane. (source: physorg.com)
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