Turning Bacteria Into Bioplastic Factories

purple bacterium
Arpita Bose works with Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1, a purple bacterium with unusual metabolic flexibility, including the ability to pull electrons out of iron or directly from an electrode. (Photo: Joe Angeles/WashU)
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