Most of us who work in biochemical engineering know that nature has supplied us with a variety of microbes that provide great starting grounds from which we can develop the specialized strains we need. In my case, that meant finding two strains that could degrade ammonia to innocuous gases- and with a little manipulation, a viable product was soon available. We employed the same process to eradicate aromatic hydrocarbons and,m then again, for some specialized mining situations. (The first set of microbes where I used this process involved finding the right bunch of bugs in nature for the inoculum to degrade honest-to-goodness solid waste to methane near Deer Island and the Boston Common- for one of my theses.) I also reported that Drs. Lewis and Epstein used the same ideas for their new antibiotic development.
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