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    Designer microbe shows promise for reducing mercury absorption from seafood

    2025-05-01T15:04:00Z

    Scientists who inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium found it detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and dramatically reduced the amount that reached other tissues.

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    Study reveals how microbes create the most toxic form of mercury

    2024-11-18T14:30:00Z

    Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury – a form so harmful that just a few billionths of a gram can cause severe and lasting neurological damage to a developing fetus. Unfortunately, methylmercury often makes its way into our bodies through seafood – but ...

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    Common fungus eradicates toxic mercury from soil and water

    2022-11-18T11:57:00Z

    Researchers have found that the fungus Metarhizium robertsii removes mercury from the soil around plant roots, and from fresh and saltwater, and have genetically engineered the fungus to amplify its mercury detoxifying effects.