Uranium-contaminated site yields wealth of information on underground microbe community

Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 13:01 in Biology & Nature

University of California, Berkeley, scientists have sequenced nearly all the genes in an underground community of microbes at a contaminated uranium mill site in Rifle, Colo., providing information that could help scientists better manipulate the microbes that remediate heavy metal contamination or those that take up and store carbon from the atmosphere.

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