Bacteria that ‘shine a light’ on microplastic pollution (IMAGE)

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Bacteria that ‘shine a light’ on microplastic pollution

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Engineered microbes produce bioluminescence in the presence of microplastics, creating a living sensor seen here as a detectable green fluorescence signal, which is laid over a scanning electron microscope image.

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Song Lin Chua

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