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− | <p class="text-faded" style="font-size: 15px"> | + | <p class="text-faded" style="font-size: 15px">Our second organism is the Gram positive bacterium Rhodococcus jostii. Such bacteria have applications in bioremediation as they are able to degrade polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are a variety of chlorinated compounds that, even though banned in the United States, they have been found in 500 of the 1,598 National Priorities List sites already identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [13] and affect animal and human health by causing skin conditions, liver damage and even cancer [14].</p> |
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