The field of environmental biotechnology increasingly recognizes the urgent need to address antimicrobial pollution in agricultural systems. The widespread ...

For many decades, humans have polluted the environment. The resultant toxic waste has been attributed to the development of a number of serious illnesses and health problems, such as cancer, diabetes, ...

Microbial dehalogenation is a vital biochemical process in which specialised microorganisms catalyse the removal of halogen atoms from persistent organic compounds. This metabolic capability underpins ...

Scientists have identified a novel microbial process that can break down toxic methylmercury in the environment, a fundamental scientific discovery that could potentially reduce mercury toxicity ...

Hyderabad: In a bid to clean the polluted lakes in the city, over the years the government hired NGOs to try out bioremediation to treat the water. This long-term pilot project has yielded positive ...

John Willford, coordinator of the instructional labs for the Department of Molecular Biology in UW’s College of Agriculture and Applied Science, shows microcosms in a UW lab that demonstrated the ...

Using advanced genomic identification techniques, researchers studying the impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill on communities of beach microbes saw a succession of organisms and identified ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. May 31, 2017 - A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified a novel microbial process that can break down toxic methylmercury in the ...