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Figure 1: Engineering a soil bacterium for enhanced sequestering of toxic heavy metals.

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  1. Derek R. Lovley is distinguished professor and departhead head and J.R. Lloyd is assistant research professor at the Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 01003, MA

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Lovley, D., Lloyd, J. Microbes with a mettle for bioremediation. Nat Biotechnol 18, 600–601 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/76433

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