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Spanish scientist Pilar Bosch has found a way to use bacteria to repair 18th-century paintings. 

西班牙科学家皮拉尔·博斯 (Pilar Bosch) 找到了一种利用细菌修复 18 世纪绘画的方法。 

Bosch, a microbiologist, tells Reuters she got the idea for the method while considering possibilities for a paper toward her doctoral degree. During this process, she discovered someone else’s paper that suggested bacteria can be used to restore artworks. 

微生物学家博斯告诉路透社，她在考虑撰写博士学位论文的可能性时想到了这种方法。在此过程中，她发现了别人的论文，建议可以使用细菌来修复艺术品。 

At around the same time, Bosch learned that her mother was struggling to find a good method for restoring 18th-century paintings. The paintings, by Spanish artist Antonio Palomino, sat in Santos Juanes – one of the oldest churches in the city of Valencia. 

大约在同一时间，博斯得知她的母亲正在努力寻找修复 18 世纪绘画的好方法。这些画作由西班牙艺术家安东尼奥·帕洛米诺 (Antonio Palomino) 创.

Bosch said her mother, Pilar Roig, noted how difficult the restoration process at the church was. One reason was the glue used to remove the paintings from the walls in the 1960s. The substance was nearly impossible to remove completely. 

博斯说，她的母亲皮拉尔·罗伊格注意到教堂的修复过程是多么困难。原因之一是 20 世纪 60 年代用于去除墙上画作的胶水。该物质几乎不可能完全去除。 

"My mother had a very difficult problem to solve and I found a paper about bacteria used to clean frescoes in Italy," Bosch said. A fresco is a kind of painting that often appears across a large wall. 

“我母亲有一个非常棘手的问题需要解决，我发现了一篇关于意大利用于清洁壁画的细菌的论文，”博斯说。壁画是一种经常出现在大墙上的绘画。

Bosch added she decided to write her doctoral paper on the same subject. That was more than ten years ago. Today, she gets to work with her mother on the church restoration. They are using the bacteria method to remove glue from artworks. The $4.46 million project is being financed by local organizations. 

博斯补充说，她决定就同一主题撰写博士论文。那是十