Key To How Bacteria Clear Mercury Pollution Revealed
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 01:14
in Health & Medicine
Mercury's persistent and toxic presence in the environment has flummoxed scientists for years in the quest to find ways to mitigate the dangers posed by the buildup of its most toxic form, methylmercury. A new discovery, however, has shed new light on one of nature's best mercury fighters: bacteria.