The field of environmental biotechnology increasingly recognizes the urgent need to address antimicrobial pollution in agricultural systems. The widespread ...

Scientists have identified a novel microbial process that can break down toxic methylmercury in the environment, a fundamental scientific discovery that could potentially reduce mercury toxicity ...

Microbial dehalogenation is a vital biochemical process in which specialised microorganisms catalyse the removal of halogen atoms from persistent organic compounds. This metabolic capability underpins ...

Hyderabad: In a bid to clean the polluted lakes in the city, over the years the government hired NGOs to try out bioremediation to treat the water. This long-term pilot project has yielded positive ...

John Willford, coordinator of the instructional labs for the Department of Molecular Biology in UW’s College of Agriculture and Applied Science, shows microcosms in a UW lab that demonstrated the ...

Bioremediation can be defined as the methodology to remove or neutralises waste and toxic substances in the environment with the help of microorganism and plants. In other words, it is the process to ...

Using advanced genomic identification techniques, researchers studying the impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill on communities of beach microbes saw a succession of organisms and identified ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. May 31, 2017 - A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified a novel microbial process that can break down toxic methylmercury in the ...