Bacteria fighting oil spill in Mexican Gulf by Milota Sidorova

One of the most effective regulation tools in the nature is a biological food chain. Nature keeps the balance by creating exact amount of different organisms on different hierarchy layer – that way there should be a majority of organisms serving as a food supply to higher forms of life, for instance some animals depend on plants, but some predators are feeding by herbivores and some higher predators are eating lower predators. Above all there are large amounts of bacteria...What is their purpose? They decompozite, they return everything back to the start.They live on dead bodies and turn them into elements, light chemicals that can be absorbed by soil, then by plants,! then by animals and so on. This food chain will never stop until the balance of the Earth remains. Bacteria colonies invisible to our eyes, but essential prevent our planet from turning into one huge cemetery.Sometimes they can be used for different purposes – in food industry, chemical industry, medicine or another technologies.What now looks potentially interesting for American people is a bacteria recently found in Mexican Gulf. This microorganism is so precious, since it's eating oil. It appeared deep underground, living with the temperature around 5 degrees Celsius and despite fears it could create dead zones by absorbing all oxygen from the water, the difference is not that significant.Researchers at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory in Berkley California reported a new specie, closely related to members of Oceanospirallales. They detected microbe in 200 deepwater samples taken between May 25 and June 2. The microbe was increasing its amounts and living insi! de deepwater oil spills that represent the greatest danger fro! m April catastrophe.Although there is still a long way from using that microbe in oil reduction fight, it may be a great success to use easy natural way. However, scientists remain still pragmatic – for instance increased amount of bacteria of this type may be dangerous for another species and create great disbalance and change in underwater ecosystem. These changes are closely tied together and it would be just a matter of time until it would reach a man.

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