Study Finds The Air Rich With Bacteria
Want biodiversity? Look no further than the air around you. It could be teeming with more than 1,800 types of bacteria, according to a first-of-its-kind census of airborne microbes recently conducted by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).The team used an innovative DNA test to catalog the bacteria in air samples taken from the Texas cities of San Antonio and Austin.
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