A Hope For Oil Spill Bioremediation Date: May 17, 2005 Source: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Summary: A recently published article in Environmental Microbiology reveals that indigenous microbiota of ...

This process, known as bioremediation, uses living organisms like plants, fungi and microbes to break down pollutants, including crude oil. There are several ways this could happen, but most of ...

Scientists are designing or deploying microbes to purge sites of contaminants such as PCBs, oil, radioactive waste, gasoline and mercury, and new bioremediation research appears regularly.

However, certain oil-degrading bacteria thrive in oil-spill conditions and contribute remarkably to the bioremediation of oil. Although biofilms, which are communities formed by bacteria ...

Are there ways living organisms can be used to fix pollution? M.L., via email. Pollution remains one of the most significant ...

Microbes have been utilized for large-scale bioremediation since the 1960s and 1970s, when researchers first began using mixtures of bacterial species to help clean up oil spills. While much ...

In the study, "Bioremediation of Complex Organic Pollutants by Engineered Vibrio natriegens," published in Nature, researchers employed synthetic biology techniques to engineer Vibrio natriegens ...