Marine Benthic Cyanobacteria as Potential Bioresources for Rare Earth Element Management: Insights from Lanthanum Bioaccumulation and Strain-Specific Physiological Responses
Ekaterina Sergeevna Miroshnichenko, Anastasiia Andreevna Blaginina, Daria Sergeevna Balycheva, Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Lishaev, Sergey Victorovich Kapranov, Mikhail Vitalievich Simokon, Svetlana Nikolaevna Zheleznova, Vitaliy Ivanovich Ryabushko · 2026
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Ekaterina Miroshnichenko and seven co-authors test whether sea-dwelling cyanobacteria can soak up rare earth elements, in this 2026 paper. Rare earths are critical for electronics and clean energy, and recovering them from dilute sources is hard. The team worked with four bacterial strains scraped from Black Sea surfaces.
Exposed to lanthanum at ten milligrams per liter, all four strains survived thirty-five days under poor light and temperature, where untreated controls died. That hints the metal can act as a modulator, not just a poison. Microscopy showed the lanthanum mostly inside cells. Chemical analysis found striking uptake in filamentous strains, nine to thirteen milligrams per gram of dry weight, over a hundredfold enrichment, with other light rare earths riding along. Strains differed in style: one hints at recovery use, another at broad cleanup, a third at serving as a sensitive indicator species. The authors stress the findings are preliminary.
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| CREATOR | Ekaterina Sergeevna Miroshnichenko, Anastasiia Andreevna Blaginina, Daria Sergeevna Balycheva, Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Lishaev, Sergey Victorovich Kapranov, Mikhail Vitalievich Simokon, Svetlana Nikolaevna Zheleznova, Vitaliy Ivanovich Ryabushko |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 63 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |