Fixating On Nitrogen Inside USC Labs

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PHOTOS: Ph.D. candidate Lily Momper studies a strain of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, "the link between the atmosphere and the ocean."

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Has Georgia Student Fighting for Life

Aimee Copeland has lost her leg and part of her abdomen to a rare flesh-eating infection

Dawn Megli
Executive Producer

The grad student has lost one leg so far and faces further amputations

Geobiologist manufactors bacterial fuel cells that convert pollutants into water and electricity.

German health minsitry says bean sprouts may have caused the E Coli outbreak.

German health ministry says bean sprouts may have caused the E Coli outbreak.

(Photo courtesy NASA Goddard Space Center)

Scientists found the bug in the waters of Mono Lake, Calif.