Fungi lock depleted uranium out of harm’s way

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 8 May, 2008 to the comment subset

Fungi lock depleted uranium out of harm’s way
An unexpected ally in the battle against uranium contaminated war zones: common backyard fungi.
A research team in Scotland has established that common fungi can grow on and chemically lock away the offending uranium. As their hyphal filaments sprawled across fragments of depleted uranium, the tubules gradually became coated [...]

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