microbes in Podcasts
conceptMicroorganisms, including bacteria, that are discussed in relation to pollution and environmental processes.
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The other thing I think that is really particular about microbes in general, and I would say specifically the bacteria that we work on, is that we can use the bacteria not just to eat the plastics, but to convert it into a product.
The microbes and the bacteria that we're using, they are from the environment.
Now, as you rightly pointed out, microbes are very tiny.
Then we take that, you know, that product and then we feed it to microbes.
So typically natural microbes that are isolated to eat plastics are almost always isolated in places where you do have a lot of plastics to begin with, because then the microbes don't have their natural food source.
So we asked the question, is it possible that they enrich, you know, these communities of microbes that enrich on these plastics because they can potentially use it as food?
So we, in my lab, we work on microbes that can do this kind of hard to digest kind of metabolism.
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