BIOTECHNOLOGY: Nanobacteria in Clouds Spreads Disease.(nanobacteria)

Nanoparticle News, May, 2005

Micro-organisms in clouds could play a crucial role in the spread of disease and in the formation of rain drops, according to scientists Andrei Sommer of the University of Ulm, Germany, and Chandra Wickramasinghe of Cardiff University, UK. The radical theories about nanobacteria - micro-organisms considerably smaller than ordinary bacteria - in clouds are published in two recent articles in the Journal of Proteome Research (vol.3, p. 1296 [2004] and vol.4, p. 180 [2005]).

The scientists say nanobacteria are now accepted as being widely prevalent in the terrestrial environment and that evidence for the existence of these nano-organisms is compelling, even in the stratosphere. In humans, nanobacteria have now been identified on four continents, they add.

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