{"id":111626,"date":"2020-08-19T23:32:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/bacteria-can-defuse-dangerous-chemical-in-passaic-river"},"modified":"2020-08-19T23:32:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:32:24","slug":"bacteria-can-defuse-dangerous-chemical-in-passaic-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/bacteria-can-defuse-dangerous-chemical-in-passaic-river","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria can defuse dangerous chemical in Passaic River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bacteria-can-defuse-dangerous-chemical-in-passaic-river.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bacteria that can help defuse highly toxic dioxin in sediments in the Passaic River\u2014a Superfund hazardous waste site\u2014could eventually aid cleanup efforts at other dioxin-contaminated sites around the world, according to Rutgers scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Their research, published in the journal <i>Environmental Science &amp; Technology<\/i>, needs further work to realize the full potential of the beneficial bottom-dwelling microbes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bacteria-driven process we observed greatly decreases the toxicity of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dioxin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dioxin<\/a>,\u201d said senior author Donna E. Fennell, a professor who chairs the Department of Environmental Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University\u2013New Brunswick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteria that can help defuse highly toxic dioxin in sediments in the Passaic River\u2014a Superfund hazardous waste site\u2014could eventually aid cleanup efforts at other dioxin-contaminated sites around the world, according to Rutgers scientists. Their research, published in the journal Environmental Science &amp; Technology, needs further work to realize the full potential of the beneficial bottom-dwelling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}