Check out
http://cnn.com/NATURE/9904/13/grabbing.algae.ap/
for an Associated Press report on research by Richard Sayre at Ohio State and
Lada Malek at Lakehead University, on using genetically engineered
Chlamydomonas
to bind heavy metals from contaminated environments. Very nice work, but
Dick, you're going to have to answer for calling our favorite organism "the
cockroach of the algae world"!
Elizabeth Harris
chlamy at acpub.duke.edu