With the increase in heavy metal pollution in the environment since the Industrial Revolution, there has been a mounting need for effective remediation methods. Bioremediation of heavy metals ...

Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These contaminants – arsenic, cadmium, lead, and others – may be invisible to the eye, ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Assistant Professor Elizabeth ...