
Natural clean-up: Bacteria can remove plastic pollution from lakes
Lake bacteria were found to favour plastic-derived carbon compounds over natural onesÂ
Lake bacteria were found to favour plastic-derived carbon compounds over natural onesÂ
Microbes that have a resistance to various commonly used antibiotics such as tetracycline and aminoglycoside are a significant source of risk for people worldwide, with the widely held expectation that the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) — the term that refers to bacteria, viruses, and fungi that are resistant to antibiotics — is likely to worsen throughout the coming decades.
New bacteria able to grow, multiply in necrotic core of tumours
Only a small fraction of bacterial lineages that ever existed survived to present time