Bacterial cellulose might offer a way to reduce our reliance on the fibers we use to make clothes, which come with substantial environmental costs regardless of whether they are natural or synthetic.

Plant-based plastics have become increasingly popular in recent years with growing concerns over plastic pollution. But plant-based ‘bioplastics’ are not new. The first man-made plastic was ...

Cellulose polymers are being produced by bacterial fermentation of organic matter, and used to create strong bioplastics. Researchers in Japan are now looking to improve polymer production levels ...

KRASNOYARSK, September 6. /TASS/. Scientists from the Siberian Federal University and the Institute of Biophysics of the Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences have ...

Bacterial cellulose might offer a way to reduce our reliance on the fibres we use to make clothes, which come with substantial environmental costs regardless of whether they are natural or synthetic.