Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time—and some of nature's tiniest organisms may ...

In a breakthrough study, microbiologists at Brunel University London discovered that Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common and ...

"Plastics, including plastic surfaces, could potentially be food for these bacteria. Pathogens with this ability could survive for longer in the hospital environment. It also means that any ...

But the material lost its halo as the environmental consequences became apparent, plastic waste being one of them. Heller—a furniture brand that produces high-end plastic furniture and home ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a hospital superbug, can degrade polycaprolactone (PCL), a plastic used in medical devices, using the enzyme Pap1. This ability enables ...

Under-pressure medics at University Hospital Monklands in Lanarkshire ... heart problems and had to sit overnight on a hard plastic chair in a waiting room last Monday before he saw a medic ...