Reusable water bottles are great for fighting against single-use plastic, but they can carry a lot of bacteria if not cleaned ...

Litter near the Charles River. For 10 to 15 days, Nelia Gross, a PhD candidate studying materials science and engineering, ...

While bacteria can grow biofilms on any surface, researcher Gross found that microplastics supercharged this process. When ...

Scientists were shocked to discover that microplastics don’t just pollute the environment, they may also be fueling the rise ...

Every time you take a sip from your water bottle, you are depositing bacteria inside and over the course of a day these can ...

Microplastics have made their way up food chains, accumulated in oceans, clustered in clouds and on mountains.

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

Plastic is a cheap and durable material that has been adapted and applied in innumerable ways. Vast amounts of plastic has been produced in recent decades, | Microbiology ...

The findings are especially concerning for people in high-density, impoverished areas like refugee settlements, where discarded plastic piles up and bacterial infections spread easily, the researchers ...

In a startling discovery, a team of Boston University researchers found that bacteria exposed to microplastics became resistant to multiple types of antibiotics commonly used to treat infections.

Researchers were stunned to discover that bacteria's antimicrobial resistance is strengthened when exposed to plastic ...

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