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BioFilm©

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Lee van Hook
Lee van Hook*
Affiliation:
Piltdown Research Institute, Munchausen University

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Photographic chemistry has long been a complex combination of inorganic metal-halide and organic chemistries and polymer science. We at the P.R.I, have managed to add biology to this stew.

Silver has long been known as a toxicelement to microbes, and so used as a drug to kill bacteria. But there are bacteria that can survive in environments high in silver. It has been reported that some bacteria can accumulate up to 25% of their dry biomass as silver, and so acquire resistance to the toxic effects of silver. Also, a recent article in the Proc. Nat. Acad.Sci. describes the intracellular deposition of silver grains in such shapes as hexagons and equilateral triangles.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , March 2000 , pp. 6 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2000

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