TINY MICROBE, HUGE POTENTIAL - WHY SCIENTISTS ARE STUDYING A MICROBE THEY FOUND IN A SINK

DURHAM, N.C., June 3 -- North Carolina State University issued the following press release:

Scientists commonly use bacteria as tiny factories that can produce molecules for uses ranging from drug development to pollution remediation. Recently, NCState biologist Carlos Goller and former undergraduate students Pushkar Sai and Andrew Hoyek did a deeper dive into Delftia, a bacterial strain that is found everywhere from soil to the kitchen sink, to determine its usefulness in applications such as malarial suppression and gold detoxification.

Goller, Sai and Hoyek sat down with the Abstract to answer a few questions about Delftia.

The Abstract (TA): What is Delftia, and how long have we known about this microbe?

Goller: Delftia is a genus o...