{"id":87894,"date":"2019-02-18T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/bacteria-used-to-neutralize-algae-bloom-toxin"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:02:48","slug":"bacteria-used-to-neutralize-algae-bloom-toxin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/bacteria-used-to-neutralize-algae-bloom-toxin","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria used to neutralize algae-bloom toxin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bacteria-used-to-neutralize-algae-bloom-toxin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When algal blooms occur in lakes, the over-abundant cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) produce a toxin known as microcystin. Now, Ohio-based scientists are using <em>other<\/em> types of bacteria to neutralize that toxin, in a process that could be cheaper and more eco-friendly than the alternatives.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/bacteria-neutralize-microcystin\/58430\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/bacteria-neutralize-microcystin\/58430\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When algal blooms occur in lakes, the over-abundant cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) produce a toxin known as microcystin. Now, Ohio-based scientists are using other types of bacteria to neutralize that toxin, in a process that could be cheaper and more eco-friendly than the alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87894","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=87894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}