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A hair-like protein hidden inside bacteria
A hair-like protein hidden inside bacteria powers nature’s electric grid, a global web of bacteria-generated nanowires that permeates all oxygen-less soil and deep ocean beds.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant MCB 1749662.]
Learn more in the Yale University news story Hidden bacterial hairs power nature’s 'electric grid.' (Date image taken: 2019; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Oct. 20, 2021)
Credit: Ella Maru Studio
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