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In the Battle Against Cancer, Researchers Find Hope in a Toxic Wasteland, NY
Times
 









Excerpts:     Lynn Donaldson for The New York Times The Berkeley Pit is a mile
and a half wide and was one of the world's largest copper mines until 1982. The
pit filled with water with high levels of arsenic, aluminum, cadmium and zinc.  
   Microbes react to harsh conditions in the Berkeley Pit by switching on genes
that otherwise lay dormant or by evolving through mutation and natural
selection, Mr. Stierle said. Either way, they produce new chemical compounds,
which the Stierles hope may benefit human health. (...) Then there is
Penicillium rubrum, which is fuzzy and green like bread mold. "It's sweet, it
grows, and this little guy produces large amounts of interesting compounds," she
said. "It's one of the loveliest microbes we've ever worked with."
Source: In the Battle Against Cancer, Researchers Find Hope in a Toxic
Wasteland[ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/us/09pit-.html ], Christopher Maag,
NYTimes, 07/10/09

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