{"id":544031,"date":"2023-09-10T23:07:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T05:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/cientificos-logran-producir-electricidad-a-partir-de-bacterias-mortales-eacr\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T23:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T05:11:19","slug":"scientists-succeed-in-producing-electricity-from-deadly-bacteria-eacr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/en\/scientists-succeed-in-producing-electricity-from-deadly-bacteria-eacr\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists succeed in producing electricity from deadly bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have achieved a groundbreaking breakthrough by engineering E. coli bacteria to produce electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cientificos_electricidad_bacterias_jhg-bicubic.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"-\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cientificos_electricidad_bacterias_jhg-bicubic.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cientificos_electricidad_bacterias_jhg-bicubic-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cientificos_electricidad_bacterias_jhg-bicubic-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cientificos_electricidad_bacterias_jhg-bicubic-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using a process called extracellular electron transfer (EET), the researchers made the bacteria highly efficient electric microbes, resulting in a three-fold 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