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Oil-hungry Macondo bacteria could offer spill hope

SCIENTISTS from Scotland's Heriot-Watt University claim to have cracked the genetic code of the marine bacteria that helped ‘eat' the oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 – information that could aid clean-up efforts for the next major spill.

Oil-hungry Macondo bacteria could offer spill hope

Dr Tony Gutierrez was in the US at the time of the disaster and was able to perform experiments with samples from oil-contaminated waters of the Gulf shortly after the Deepwater Horizon blow-out and occurred...

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