NEW BACTERIA THAT CONSUMES BACTERIA FOR ENERGY DISCOVERED BY CALTECH MICROBIOLOGISTS

Highlights: 

• The discovery of the bacteria was an accident 
• This new bacteria may be the answer to manganese oxide clogging of the drinking water systems

For hundred years microbiologists have suspected their existence but could never prove it. However, an accidental discovery has now proven the theory that a type of bacteria does exist that eats metals and gets its calories from it. Thi....