Scientists discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a ...

Scientists have found a way to use the bacteria E. coli to convert plastic waste into a popular painkiller, a study said this ...

Plastic-eating bacteria could combat pollution problems, scientists hope. A bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a new study finds.

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.

Paracetamol (acetaminophen) production could be revolutionized by the discovery that a common bacterium can turn everyday ...

New study from University of Edinburgh researchers suggests E coli bacteria can be used to convert plastic waste into ...

From discovering plastic-eating bacterium to finding a new catalytic process in soils, the Aristilde Research Group had a busy year in 2024. It published seven papers and submitted four more for ...

Eating plastic, it’s fantastic! Scientists might have found an unlikely solution to the trash problem choking our planet — a plastic-eating insect, which was described in the journal Nature ...

The plastic-eating enzyme it produces could weaken critical tools like ventilators, drug-delivery patches, and surgical meshes, making them less effective and harder to sterilize.

At this Northwestern professor's lab, plastic-eating microbes show promise to gobble up microplastics in nature “We can learn from nature to engineer sustainable solutions,” says Ludmilla ...

A bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a new study finds. Scientists hope it is a pollution solution.