First of all, welcome in 2018 and a happy new year full of interesting success stories of biotech! Hopefully, you had a good time with your family and friends and found some time to relax? Certainly, many of us also enjoyed a colorful fireworks display to get into the new year. But – as we all know – fireworks are causing air pollution.
Any idea, how we can get rid of our electronic waste? Maybe, bioleaching is the answer. This process is an interesting biotechnological alternative to the conventional chemical leaching. The hero of this process is an iron-oxidizing organism, called Acidithiobacillus ferroxidans.