Throughout human history, many have tried to ‘create' gold from other materials. We popularly know these people as alchemists, none of which succeeded of course. Thanks to the modern understanding of the chemical elements and the ability to use them effectively, gold can indeed be created (or rather extracted) in a lab from other elements. But the procedure is too expensive to be financially profitable.
Researchers at Michigan state university have now been able to use a bacteria to precisely this end.
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