Data collected by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research at the University of Porto (CIIMAR-UP) showed the research ...

We were surprised to find that some hospital germs, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, might be able to break down plastic. P ...

A newly discovered species of bacteria has been found living aboard ... It can break down gelatin to extract nutrients and form protective biofilms. It also activates responses to oxidative ...

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria, which were discovered in waste-water sludge in the early 1990s, have the unique metabolic ability to combine ammonium and nitrite or nitrate to ...

This ability comes from an enzyme we named Pap1. Our group has previously shown that when environmental bacteria form biofilms, they can break down plastic faster. So we wondered whether having a ...

Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria are globally a major threat, leading to high mortality rates ...