[Twotone]

I guess it's true that for every 'thing' in the world, there's somebody willing to eat it.

[Cicero]

Yeah, great. The search for oil-eating and plastic eating bugs.

Then, next thing you know, some freak Greenie group will let the things go all over the place, and plastic everywhere will start to fall apart. I can just see the supermarket shelves, now!

Great job, guys! But watch out, these fungi will eat your iPads!

[BykrBayb]

In other news, Cher and her offspring have gone into seclusion.

[Yo-Yo]

This sounds like a SciFi novel’s plot. I can see unintended consequences for letting loose a plastic (oil) eating microbe into the wild.

[muir_redwoods]

Any chance, if it eats plastic, that it excretes crude oil? maybe gasoline?

[Miss Behave]

First they come for your plastic, then they come for your Gold Card.

[dangerdoc]

Is this supposed to be good news?

Get a spot on your new GM vehicle and end up with 2 pounds of cheap sheet metal and a hand full of screws.

[Snickering Hound]

The genus Pestalotiopsis is grouped in the Xylariales order and comprises several known plant pathogens. The fungus is not host specific and causes rot and disease in a wide variety of plant species (29), although these isolates were all endophytic and the plants showed no pathogenic symptoms. Pestalotiopsis microspora isolates have previously been shown to have a propensity for horizontal gene transfer. In one notable case, a Pestalotiopsis microspora strain isolated as a fungal endophyte from the taxol-producing plant Taxus wallachiana had acquired the ability to synthesize taxol (27). Such a propensity for horizontal gene transfer may have contributed to the ability of a subset of these isolates to degrade polyester polyurethane as a sole carbon substrate, or it may reflect a significant level of phenotypic diversity among the genus.

Uhhh, this might not be sooo good...

[Da Coyote]

Any way to modify the DNA of that fungus so that it eats liberals?

[Daffynition]

Eli's coulda stayed right at home in New Haven...wandred down to the NH green and taken some bio-samples from the OWSers *still* there. EUWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

[dfwgator]

"Oh, Gus the gardener's gone now....and you went with him too....The fungus here reminds me of the fun Gus is having with you...."

[NavyCanDo]

Follow-up story yet to be written:

Government spends half-million for plastic shipping containers to ship samples of Plastic-Eating Fungi. (Sarc)

[556x45]

This has unintended consequences written all over it!

[Wurlitzer]

Pelosi should be very scared.

[LRS]

Just keep it from the gaskets at Wildfire...

[arthurus]

have found a fungi

A fungus.

[SandRat]

All the Super-Model Enhancement Surgeons and Super-Models are in a Panic.