Engineered yeast can remove heavy metals from wastewater

Easy storage and rapid growth could see yeast compete with bacterial and chemical remediation

As the world’s demand for electronic goods and other chemicals grows continuously, environmental heavy metal contamination grows too. Traditional chemical…

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Chemistry World, 2020-02-18.

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Bangor University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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