Eight strains of flesh-eating bacteria used to clean Michelangelo's statues

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Italy's National Research Council figured out what was behind the grime: Bodily fluids leaking from the  improperly embalmed corpse of Alessandro de Medici.

Anna Rosa Sprocati, a biologist at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, hand-picked from her catalog of more than 1,000 bacteria to test against the stains. They had successes and failures, with some of the bacteria eating not just the human remains, but the delicate Carrera marble, too. But the chapel's museum believed that bacteria would be more effective than harsh chemicals or abrasives.

Sprocati's picked the eight most promising bacteria and tested them on a gridded section behind the altar of the church. The ones that worked were then put on the tomb of Giuliano di Lorenzo, specifically the statues of Night and Day. The bacteria successfully cleaned Night's hair and eyes of accumulated residue.

Source - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/italy-medici-michelangelo-corpse-statue-flesh-eating-bacteria/

[River 127,489]

yeah release it to the wild, good idea

[Dojo 19,823]

flesh eating bacteria, like a microscopic zombie