Pseudomonas aeruginosa is associated with 559,000 yearly deaths worldwide, and many of them come from hospital-acquired ...

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

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

Scientists at the University of Portsmouth are to develop ‘plastic-eating’ enzymes that could help solve the ever-growing problem of waste polyester clothing. Polyester is the most widely-used ...

Next, the researchers used protein analysis to identify the key enzyme that gives this microbe its plastic-eating abilities. Though this new enzyme was distinct from previously described PET-busting ...

While scavenging through a compost heap at a Leipzig cemetery, Christian Sonnendecker and his research team found seven enzymes they had never seen before. They were hunting for proteins that would ...

But the number of possible plastic-eating enzymes is greater than the atoms in the known universe, which has made it difficult for researchers to make much headway. Enter artificial intelligence.

Eating plastic, it’s fantastic ... which is the pupae of an Alphitobius darkling beetle, possesses enzymes that can break down polystyrene — best known as the key ingredient in styrofoam.