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United Kingdom : Oil-hungry bacteria could clean up the next big oil spill

United Kingdom : Oil-hungry bacteria could clean up the next big oil spill

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United Kingdom : Oil-hungry bacteria could clean up the next big oil spill

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United Kingdom : Oil-hungry bacteria could clean up the next big oil spill

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Camden: Disco Digital Media, Inc

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MENA Report, 2016

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English

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Camden: Disco Digital Media, Inc

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Dr Tony Gutierrez, Associate Professor of Microbiology at Heriot-Watt, was in the US at the time of the disaster and was able to perform experiments with samples from oil-contaminated waters of the Gulf of Mexico shortly after the spill occurred, samples that contained key species of bacteria that fed on the oil. In a paper published in Nature Micr...

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United Kingdom : Oil-hungry bacteria could clean up the next big oil spill

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TN_cdi_proquest_wirefeeds_1788679411

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_wirefeeds_1788679411

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2219-0112

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