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Nature's Helpers Clean Up TCE

Caption: Bruce Rittmann's Biodesign Institute research team has utilized a system, called the microbial biofilm reactor, that uses a naturally occurring group of microorganisms to remove TCE from water. Here, ASU assistant professor Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown and graduate research assistant Michal Ziv-El assemble a membrane biofilm reactor to test against TCE.

Credit: Barb Backes, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University

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