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Caption: Bacteria, such as this strain of Shewanella, will under particular environmental conditions sprout nanowires that can shuttle electricity to its neighboring cells. (Top: scanning electron microscopic image; bottom: fluorescence-stained micrograph.)
Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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