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December
2020
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Asia/Singapore
NUS engineers found new multitasking microbe for simpler, cheaper and greener wastewater treatment
2020-12-09 A new multitasking microbe to purify wastewater
The team led by Associate Professor He Jianzhong (left) and Research Fellow Dr Wang Qingkun (right) discovered Thauera sp. strain SND5 after they isolated and tested various strains of bacteria from wastewater samples. Dr Wang holding a wastewater sample containing the unique SND5 bacterium.
Researchers from NUS have discovered a new strain of bacterium that can remove both nitrogen and phosphorous from sewage wastewater. Their findings offer a simpler, cheaper and greener method of wastewater treatment.
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