Tiny gut “sponge” bacteria found to flush out toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” : science

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Oh fuck I mean I would love this to be real but this is going to be abused so much in the next couple years. Supermarket shelves and social media posts will fucking be filled with drinks and pills containing (probably nonviable forms) these bacteria by the loads. Good luck everyone.

Also most of us already have enough microplastic embedded in our brains to last a lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

And a few years later the bacteria is found to cause even worse diseases...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I know it's a joke, but that's almost certainly not going to be the case. Pathogenic bacteria have fundamentally different metabolism and genes.

What is more likely is either: ecological imbalance or the bacteria only metabolises the harmful chemicals under extreme deprivation of other carbon sources, which is never realistic, so they never do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well I mean if people throw off their gut microbiome by overloading on this bacteria, it might still be harmful in that way. It does not need to be pathogenic in that sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Its actually hard to survive the human gut

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

But it is neutralized by microplastics...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

But before that they will discover some nutrients which are very beneficial for this bacteria so people will also consume that by the loads.

[+] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Whoops, long term studies show it turns the host into a zombie after 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

1000001758

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

its just as well, i dont think I got more than two Halloweens in me

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

As long as it doesn't hurt the PFAS industry profit margins.

/s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

It will quadruple revenue - deregulation and PFAS for everyone!
Hope you can afford regular sponge bacteria cleansing baths, or you get them super-cancers real quick.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hate that we're living in the stellaris timeline

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It would suck to live in any of the empires I've created.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

We dont deserve mandatory pampering

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It's the way the world was meant to be monetised!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The fact that this /s was even slightly needed :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Omg, ikr?

People automatically start bitching about anything ever so slightly restricting harmful corporation's actions even when they aren't even involved with the profits (which also shouldn't matter, but it's funny that it's not even their greed, just brainwashed by propaganda they happily repeat & would die for).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Imagine talking about a bacteria that could save lives and never naming it! For those who want to know, it's in the nature article: E.coli and pseudomonas are the ones cited in the source document, widely spread bacteria already in your gut. Sooooo...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Soooo... Regular gut biome already does this? Or are they talking about the e.coli that gives you the shits and food poisoning? Cause if its the latter, yes it will clean you quickly... Together will all liquids in your digestive system

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

You saved me a click!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

If they're already in my gut, does that mean I have less forever chemicals in me than otherwise?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

The pefapocalyps is coming. Why does fluor have to be such a clingy sensitive bitch clinging to cheats-with-anyone carbon? Now carbon is in a toxic relationship :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

That looks like a mitochondria, which is the powerhouse of the cell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Everything lasts forever until it doesn't.