Soil Bacteria Team Up to Dismantle a Widely Used Insecticide
Researchers have engineered a two-strain bacterial consortium that degrades over 91 percent of the insecticide fipronil in 14 days, mapping ...
Tag: bioremediation
Biochar, Bacteria and Jack Bean Team Up to Purge Atrazine from Farm Soil
A proposed tripartite remediation system combining biochar, Pseudomonas bacteria and the legume Canavalia ensiformis could degrade persistent atrazine residues in ...
Tannery Microbes Turn the Tables on Lead, Mopping Up Toxic Metal from Polluted Water
Three lead-tolerant Gram-positive bacteria persistently found downstream of a West Bengal tannery complex can remove up to 58.4 percent of ...
Earthworm Guts Turn Out to Be Tiny Bioreactors That Break Down a Common Veterinary Drug in Soil
New metagenomic research shows that the earthworm gut microbiome selectively enriches bacterial genes and genera that biodegrade the persistent anthelmintic ...
Red Seaweeds Turn Shrimp Farm Waste Into Clean Water in Just Days
Five native Indian red seaweed species removed up to 100 percent of nitrate and most phosphate and ammonium from shrimp ...
Clay-Dwelling Bacterium Turns Toxic Selenium Into Crystalline Nanorods Using Its Biofilm as a Template
A non-pathogenic soil bacterium uses its metal-resistant biofilm scaffold to convert toxic selenite into valuable crystalline selenium nanorods at ambient ...
Microbes Offer a Powerful New Way to Break Down the World’s Aquatic Pollutants
A new review in Blue Biotechnology details how bacteria, archaea, algae and fungi metabolize everything from oil spills and pesticides ...
Engineering Microbes to Fight Disease, Plastics and Pollution
A new Microbial Biotechnology editorial shows how engineered microbes and enzymes are being deployed against fungal disease, diabetes, plastic waste ...
Turkey Tail Fungus Rewires Its Genes to Survive Toxic Biofuel Wastewater
Researchers show that the white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor switches on a universal genetic stress program to detoxify toxic hydrothermal liquefaction ...
Microbial Dehalogenase Genes Split into Mobile Respiratory Loci and a Vast Resident Reservoir
A genomic survey of thousands of bacterial and archaeal genomes shows that reductive dehalogenase genes split into a highly mobile ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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