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Nature 437, 1227-1228 (27 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/4371227a; Published online 26 October 2005
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- Helen Pilcher is a freelance science writer based in London.
Abstract
It's a bizarre, toxin-filled microbe that could clean up sewage plants across the globe. Helen Pilcher gets on the trail of the anammox bacterium.
When the good citizens of Delft complained about the smell wafting from the local yeast factory, they had no idea they had initiated the discovery of rocket-fuel-filled bacteria that would mystify microbiologists and force a rewrite of the biology textbooks.The microbes, known as anammox bacteria, are full of surprises.
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