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Description: Bacteria are often painted as our adversaries, but when it comes to oil spills, toxic chemicals, and radioactive waste, they could be what save us from ourselves. #microbes #bacteria #oilspills You might also like: How Carbon Capture Works: youtu.be/wu3hoo3p4Kk Is There Plastic in My Rain?: youtu.be/HUAaurZKi6U Forever Chemicals: youtu.be/tqKEG5LxPiY How Do We Fight the California Fires?: youtu.be/fNGq8hEuNb8 The Science of How Life Started: youtu.be/f44OWlsLeT0 Credits: Executive Producers: George Zaidan Hilary Hudson Producers: Elaine Seward Andrew Sobey Darren Weaver Writer/Host: Sam Jones, PhD Scientific consultants: Michelle Boucher, PhD Paige Novak, PhD, Brianne Raccor, PhD Gemma Reguera, PhD Sources: Deepwater Horizon – BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill epa.gov/enforcement/deepwater-horizon-bp-gulf-mexico-oil-spill Bacteria used to clean at-home oil spill (video demo) grainger.com/product/ULTRATECH-Product-Type-Granular-Oil-6XMG7 We still don’t know all of the impacts of the BP oil spill nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bp-oil-spill-still-dont-know-effects-decade-later Adaptive synthesis of a rough lipopolysaccharide in Geobacter sulfurreducens for metal reduction and detoxification journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.00964-21 A review in the current developments of genus Dehalococcoides, its consortia and kinetics for bioremediation options of contaminated groundwater sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468203917301668 Degradation of Deepwater Horizon oil buried in a Florida beach influenced by tidal pumping sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X17309037?via%3Dihub Diverse, rare microbial taxa responded to the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea hydrocarbon plume nature.com/articles/ismej2015121 Computer modeling could help chlorine-hungry bacteria break down toxic waste news.cornell.edu/stories/2007/06/helping-chlorine-eating-bacteria-clean-toxic-waste How Microbes Clean Up Our Environmental Messes popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a7176/how-microbes-will-clean-up-our-messes Extracellular reduction of uranium via Geobacter conductive pili as a protective cellular mechanism pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21896750 Characterization of mercury bioremediation by transgenic bacteria expressing metallothionein and polyphosphate kinase bmcbiotechnol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6750-11-82 It looks like microbes can help clean up mining pollution massivesci.com/articles/microbes-pollution-mining-cleanup Breathing' bacteria clean up toxic waste: Civil engineering professor Paige Novak and her colleagues rise to the challenge cse.umn.edu/college/feature-stories/breathing-bacteria-clean-toxic-waste Microbial communities clean toxic waste and generate useful chemicals biodesign.asu.edu/news/microbial-communities-clean-toxic-waste-and-generate-useful-chemicals Deepwater Horizon and the Rise of the Omics eos.org/features/deepwater-horizon-and-the-rise-of-the-omics These bacteria clean up radioactive waste msutoday.msu.edu/news/2021/bacteria-clean-up-radioactive-waste Cleaning Up Electronic Waste (E-Waste) epa.gov/international-cooperation/cleaning-electronic-waste-e-waste Risk Management for Trichloroethylene (TCE) epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/risk-management-trichloroethylene-tce Meet the Microbes Eating the Gulf Oil Spill [Slide Show] scientificamerican.com/slideshow/gulf-oil-eating-microbes-slide-show Radiation-eating bacteria could make nuclear waste safer newscientist.com/article/mg23431211-300-radiation-eating-bacteria-could-make-nuclear-waste-safer Electrified Bacterial Filaments Remove Uranium from Groundwater scientificamerican.com/article/electrified-bacterial-remove-uranium-groundwater Molecular structure of different petroleum hydrocarbon representatives researchgate.net/figure/Molecular-structure-of-different-petroleum-hydrocarbon-representatives_fig1_316965728 Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethane, Propane, and Butane by Marine Microbes: A Mini Review frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02056/full Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria for the Remediation of Oil Pollution Under Aerobic Conditions: A Perspective Analysis frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02885/full