Scientists warn that a dangerous superbug capable of digesting medical plastic is silently spreading through hospitals, threatening patient safety worldwide.

Every so often, a new study about plastic-eating bacteria gets published in a scientific journal. Shortly thereafter, it flashes across the internet as it gets picked up by a flurry of ...

testosteroni’s eating habits so closely that they ... testosteroni’s ability to break down plastic. Though the bacteria are ...

The discovery of IsPETase has kickstarted a search for other plastic-eating bacteria as part of a broader trend of looking for organisms for commercial applications known as bioprospecting.

When the bacteria eat the plastic ... Carbios, a French startup, uses an enzyme that was originally discovered eating PET plastic in compost, tweaking it so it can break down plastic faster ...

An international team of researchers has decided to take advantage of those strains and bundle plastic-eating bacteria into the plastic. To keep them from eating it while it's in use, the bacteria ...

However, a newly discovered plastic-eating bacteria could help undo a lot of that damage. The bacteria is a common type of bacterium known as Comamonas testosteroni and it is found in sewage and ...

Now, researchers report in ACS Central Science that they've developed a plastic-eating E. coli that can efficiently turn polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste into adipic acid, which is used to ...

Plastic waste leaches dissolved organic matter (DOM) into rivers, lakes, and oceans. This DOM, in turn, likely affects the feeding habits and growth of bacteria that inhabit those waters. “Few ...