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Princeton professor Peter Jaffe and researcher Shan Huang have discovered a bacterium that offers a more efficient way to treat sewage and other pollutants. (Photo by David Kelly Crow)
Sewage treatment may be an unglamorous job, but bacteria are happy to do it. And a bacterium recently discovered by Princeton researchers in a New Jersey swamp may offer a more efficient method for treating toxins found in sewage, fertilizer runoff and other forms of water...