Green Options

This writer contacted lead researcher David Graham and asked him to explain how these antibiotic resistant soil microbes and/or genes might impact humans. “The genes themselves do not get passed directly to humans per se. The genes get passed from exposed bacteria to bacteria whom might ultimately end up in humans, some of which might be pathogenic. An example is on food or in water that has been exposed to resistance bacteria.”

After two weeks of a strict algae-only diet, a one-inch, green sea slug species (Elysia chlorotica) was somehow able to incorporate the plants chloroplasts (the cell-like organelles that trap solar energy and convert it to sugar), and then live out the rest of their single-year lives without eating.