An engineered gut microbe can detoxify methylmercury, reducing the amount that passes into the brain and developing fetuses of mice fed a diet rich in fish, UCLA and UC San Diego's Scripps Institution ...
SOME years ago I found a long series of diffuse bands from λ2943 to λ2614 in the absorption spectrum of a long column of mercury vapour. 1 The same series was found independently and about the same ...
Scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and ...