bacteria
07/13/2018
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By Ralph Flores
Certain bacteria that digest toxic heavy metals transform toxic gold particles into “secondary” gold nuggets
Talk about a silver lining — in this case, a gold one: Researchers have discovered that the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans is able to “extract valuable trace elements from a compound of heavy metals without poisoning itself.” In particular, they identified a unique side effect of this process, that is, the formation of metallic gold nanoparticles. The paper, […]
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