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Fungi iron-out asbestos pollution

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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.1It might even be possible, they suggest, to transfer the organism's asbestos-attacking genes into other soil microbes.

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  1. Martino, E. et al. Soil fungal hyphae bind and attack asbestos fibers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 42, 219 - 222, (2003).

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Ball, P. Fungi iron-out asbestos pollution. Nature (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/news030120-2

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