{"id":113501,"date":"2020-09-27T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-have-found-the-molecule-that-allows-bacteria-to-exhale-electricity"},"modified":"2020-09-27T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T21:24:09","slug":"scientists-have-found-the-molecule-that-allows-bacteria-to-exhale-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-have-found-the-molecule-that-allows-bacteria-to-exhale-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Found The Molecule That Allows Bacteria to \u2018Exhale\u2019 Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-found-the-molecule-that-allows-bacteria-to-exhale-electricity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For mouthless, lungless bacteria, breathing is a bit more complicated than it is for humans.<\/p>\n<p>We inhale oxygen and exhale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/topics\/carbon-dioxide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">carbon dioxide<\/a>; <em>Geobacter<\/em> \u2014 a ubiquitous, groundwater-dwelling genus of bacteria \u2014 swallow up organic waste and \u2018exhale\u2019 electrons, generating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/53889-electric-current.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tiny electric current<\/a> in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Those waste electrons always need somewhere to go (usually into a plentiful underground mineral like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/29263-iron.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iron<\/a> oxide), and <em>Geobacter<\/em> have an unconventional tool to make sure they get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For mouthless, lungless bacteria, breathing is a bit more complicated than it is for humans. We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide; Geobacter \u2014 a ubiquitous, groundwater-dwelling genus of bacteria \u2014 swallow up organic waste and \u2018exhale\u2019 electrons, generating a tiny electric current in the process. Those waste electrons always need somewhere to go (usually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113501","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}