E. Coli as food?

[mcoy]

I've heard of a lot of modified foods lately, like veggies and all that... but i've heard of bacteria can used for food....! How is this possible??? i know there are a lot of "good" bacterias out there but, what i've specifically heard to provide future protein was E. Coli ...........

Here, Check this out.........

http://www.research.umich.edu/research_guide/nsf50/ecoli.html?print

Can anybody give me more sources......please........

 

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..............and i've heard of a robot that "eats" sugar cubes and digests it using the bacteria escherichia coli in hawaii

http://feed.proteinos.com/001204.html

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[Sayonara]

Bacteria break down their food (whatever it may be for that particular species) to produce useful energy, just like we do, but they also produce what are known as secondary metabolites (the waste products).

 

Some of these fulfill a function as antibiotics, to kill off other species and therefore make the microbe more competitively advantaged. We harvest many of these in biotechnology to create medicines and drugs.

 

Many of these secondary metabolites are not harmful to us - in fact they can be beneficial. Some good examples can be found here:

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0856810.html