Is bacteria the future of oil spill and radioactive waste cleanup?
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Reactions Science Videos | October 27, 2021
The Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010 released millions of tons of oil into the ocean. As governments and the oil industry were trying to clean up the disaster, bacteria were already hard at work. In this episode of Reactions, our host, Sam, creates an oil spill at home and puts bacteria to the test.
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Deepwater Horizon – BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Bacteria used to clean at-home oil spill (video demo)
We still don’t know all of the impacts of the BP oil spill
Adaptive synthesis of a rough lipopolysaccharide in Geobacter sulfurreducens for metal reduction and detoxification
A review in the current developments of genus Dehalococcoides, its consortia and kinetics for bioremediation options of contaminated groundwater
Degradation of Deepwater Horizon oil buried in a Florida beach influenced by tidal pumping
Diverse, rare microbial taxa responded to the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea hydrocarbon plume
Computer modeling could help chlorine-hungry bacteria break down toxic waste
How Microbes Clean Up Our Environmental Messes
Extracellular reduction of uranium via Geobacter conductive pili as a protective cellular mechanism
Characterization of mercury bioremediation by transgenic bacteria expressing metallothionein and polyphosphate kinase
It looks like microbes can help clean up mining pollution
Breathing' bacteria clean up toxic waste: Civil engineering professor Paige Novak and her colleagues rise to the challenge
Microbial communities clean toxic waste and generate useful chemicals
Deepwater Horizon and the Rise of the Omics
These bacteria clean up radioactive waste
Cleaning Up Electronic Waste (E-Waste)
Risk Management for Trichloroethylene (TCE)
Meet the Microbes Eating the Gulf Oil Spill [Slide Show]
Radiation-eating bacteria could make nuclear waste safer
Electrified Bacterial Filaments Remove Uranium from Groundwater
Molecular structure of different petroleum hydrocarbon representatives
Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethane, Propane, and Butane by Marine Microbes: A Mini Review
Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria for the Remediation of Oil Pollution Under Aerobic Conditions: A Perspective Analysis
Produced by the American Chemical Society.
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