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Published online 30 November 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news001130-10
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Bugs for toxic clean-up
Paint, polish and glue make tasty snacks for new bacteria. .
German researchers have found bacteria that happily eat the pungent solvents at the heart of everything from typewriter correction fluid to paint -- chlorinated benzene chemicals. These microbes should help engineers to design better ways of treating water and soil polluted with the toxic compounds.
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