Show New Organism Feasts On Oil OilA A scientist has created in the laboratory a man-made man organism organ orsan- ism which may prove to be an antidote for oil spills pUIs The super microbe which is still in the he laboratory stage will attack oil spills digesting the petroleum and converting it 1 into a form that can be eaten ealen by marine life liCe Dr Ananda M Chakrabarty working at Il the General Electric Research and Development I Center combined the genetic makeup of four different strains of bacteria that o occur cu in nature and feed on hydrocarbons the main constituents of petroleum According to GE it can digest crude oil at a rate faster fasler than any other known organism Extensive field tests still must be performed before the new strain of bacteria can be used against oil spills The tests are necessary to assure that hat the microbe is ecologically acceptable accept accept- able |