New Bacterium Lives On Caffeine

Kozar_The_Malignant writes "A newly-described species of bacterium, Pseudomonas putida has been found to live on pure caffeine. The little jaspers metabolize caffeine into carbon dioxide and ammonia. They were found living in a flower bed on the University of Iowa campus, not in the drain of an espresso machine as one might expect. The paper presenting the research will be presented at the American Society for Microbiology meeting in New Orleans this month where caffeine metabolism will have to contend with the traditional ethanol metabolism."

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We must be related

[toygeek]

But when I ingest caffeine it just makes my pee smell like coffee.

Hard to Find at First

[tarsi210]

Word is they were pretty hard to find at first, on account of them vibrating right off the slide.

Nuuuuuu!

[osu-neko]

Kill it! Kill it with fire! It must be stopped! Don't let it take our caffeine!