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Published online 21 January 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030120-2
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Fungi iron-out asbestos pollution
Bioremediation might make fibre-contaminated soil safer.
"Fungi may help decontaminate asbestos-polluted soils," say Silvia Perotto and co-workers at the University of Torino. They have found a fungus that takes the toxic bite out of asbestos fibres.
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