ScienceNews: This deep-sea bacterium grows to search for food can carry electrons too, making it a candidate for applications in biotechnology.M. El-Naggar, Univ. of Southern California Like a household wire carries electrons from wall socket to appliance, bacteria can conduct electricity along tiny wire-like appendages, researchers report online October 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A community of bacteria connected by these gangly nanowires could act as a slimy fuel cell,…