Strange Bacteria Can Build Electricitycarrying Cables

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Strange bacteria can build electricitycarrying cables. The adaptation never seen before in a microbe allows these so called cable bacteria to overcome a major challenge facing many organisms that live in mud. Cable bacteria are not unique to aarhus it turns out. Well fed bacteria in rich sterile culture can divide every half hour or so. Nielsen and other researchers have found them at least six species so far in many places around the world including tidal pools.

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But the cause turned out to be far stranger. A lack of oxygen. The cytoskeleton is the linchpin of efficient cell growth and division but researchers are only starting to explain how. Bacteria that join cells end to end to build electrical cables able to carry current up to 5 centimeters through mud.

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