Scientists Create Bacteria that Glows to Reveal Land Mines
Found on Inhabitat on Monday, 16 November 2009
Sifting through minefields to remove these hidden threats is currently a dangerous, tedious, and expensive process, however scientists at the University of Edinburgh recently announced that they have engineered a strain of bacteria that glows green in the presence of explosives, making mine detection a snap.
Within a few hours the bacteria strain begins to glow green wherever traces of explosive chemicals are present.
Bascially a neat thing, but spraying genetically modified bacteria over large areas of land doesn't really sound that great.