Dr. David Freedman has been featured in Chemical & Engineering News for his work exploring how microbial communities adapt and even help clean up heavily contaminated environments.
Here is a snip of what the article presents: “Dehalococcoides species “use chlorinated solvents as their electron acceptor, the same way that you and I use oxygen,” says David Freedman, an environmental engineering professor at Clemson University. “We now understand there are dechlorinating bacteria that breathe hundreds of different types of chlorinated organics,” he says, including chlorinated methanes and polychlorinated biphenyls. Dehalococcoides cultures are now commercially available for bioremediation projects that need to break down toxic chlorinated ethenes.”
You can read more about the story here.
