{"id":82708,"date":"2018-09-15T17:03:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T00:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/study-suggests-probiotic-bacteria-and-superbugs-can-produce-electricity"},"modified":"2018-09-15T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T00:03:19","slug":"study-suggests-probiotic-bacteria-and-superbugs-can-produce-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/study-suggests-probiotic-bacteria-and-superbugs-can-produce-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Study Suggests Probiotic Bacteria and Superbugs Can Produce Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-suggests-probiotic-bacteria-and-superbugs-can-produce-electricity.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that hundreds of bacterial species are capable of producing electricity and could very well be co-opted to create \u201cliving batteries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While researchers have known that bacteria found in exotic environments like the ocean floor are electrogenic, a new study published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-018-0498-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a> marks the first time scientists have uncovered bacteria interacting with humans are <em>also<\/em> electrogenic.<\/p>\n<p>These bacteria range from the sort that cause diarrhea to the ones that ferment yogurt. Many fill the human gut, and understanding how these bacteria develop electricity-producing capabilities may reveal how they infect humans \u2014 or why they keep us healthy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/48989-probiotic-bacteria-create-electricity\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/48989-probiotic-bacteria-create-electricity<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that hundreds of bacterial species are capable of producing electricity and could very well be co-opted to create \u201cliving batteries.\u201d While researchers have known that bacteria found in exotic environments like the ocean floor are electrogenic, a new study published in the journal Nature marks the first time scientists have uncovered bacteria [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82708","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}