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 ...

A bioremediation expert says extreme caution must be used in cleaning up the fragile Gulf Coast ecosystem in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Oil is a biological product that can ...

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 ...

The question then is how do we replicate these optimum conditions in the lab in an oil spill environment. There are a number of requirements necessary for an effective bioremediation response.

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 ...