Bacteria with Metal Diet Discovered in Dirty Glassware

Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 09:50 in Biology & Nature

Caltech microbiologists have discovered bacteria that feed on manganese and use the metal as their source of calories. Such microbes were predicted to exist over a century ago, but none had been found or described until now. “These are the first bacteria found to use manganese as their source of fuel,” says Jared Leadbetter, professor of […]

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