Sponge bacterium found to encapsulate arsenic drawn from environment
Monday, February 27, 2017 - 14:51
in Biology & Nature
A new study sheds light on a unique biological model of arsenic detoxification. According to the new research, the Entotheonella bacterium that inhabits the Theonella swinhoei sponge is one of the only known cases of a bacterium protecting its host from metal poisoning.