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UC-San Diego: Engineered Bacterium Could Shield People From Mercury Toxicity
May 06, 2025
LA JOLLA, California, May 6 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news:

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Engineered Bacterium Could Shield People from Mercury Toxicity

Researchers load common probiotic species with gene sequences from mercury-resistant microbes found in mines

By Robert Monroe

Researchers from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered bacterium that . . .

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