LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The girl that a sea lion bit and dragged into a harbor Saturday is receiving medical treatment over concerns that she was infected by harmful bacteria from the mammal’s mouth, according to a Thursday report from NBC News. While it seems to be a precautionary measure, aquatic animal experts…
By Geoffrey Ingersoll Whole Foods may have sparked the organic food revolution, but it is no beacon of cleanliness. The Food and Drug Administration found evidence of the deadly bacteria Listeria on its visit to a Whole Foods preparation facility in Everett, as well as condensation from ceiling pipes dripping on food. The agency recently…
by Andrew Follett Solar panels of the future could literally be made of bacteria, but they’d be almost 5,000 times less efficient than regular panels, according to research published Monday by scientists from Binghamton University. The research created nine scalable and stackable bacteria-derived solar panels from cyanobacteria that continuously generated electricity from photosynthesis and respiration. The bacteria panels created,…