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Up from the deep: meet the marine bacteria that feed on DNA




A team of Chinese marine scientists have found and cultivated a previously unknown bacterial species that, unlike others, feeds on DNA, the building block of life.In a paper published in the peer-reviewed ISME Journal this month, researchers said understanding of the species could be “crucial for understanding global ocean processes”.The scientists, led by professor Sun Chaomin at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao in the eastern province of Shandong, named the…



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