Scientists in South Korea have engineered tiny bacterial cells that are churning out plastic. The plastics produced by the ...

E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The ...

Biology might ultimately provide a solution, however. Researchers have identified bacteria that evolved the ability to digest ...

A self-powered, three-component biosensor capable of killing bacteria in water samples has been developed by materials ...

Imagine a world where bacteria, typically feared for causing disease, are turned into powerful weapons against cancer. That’s ...

Litter near the Charles River. For 10 to 15 days, Nelia Gross, a PhD candidate studying materials science and engineering, and other researchers incubated several types of microplastics with E. coli, ...

Researchers at Boston University have found that microplastics (MPs) provide an ideal platform for bacteria to form ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...