All Bioremediation articles
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NewsUC Santa Barbara to lead $22M NSF-funded center on exceptional microbes
UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, and Cal Poly Pomona receive a six-year, $22 million grant to establish a first-of-its-kind BioFoundry that focuses on largely untapped and unexplored extreme microbes.
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NewsStudies explore converting wastewater to fertilizer with fungal treatment
Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) converts biomass into biocrude oil through a high-temperature, high-pressure process. Two new studies explore the use of a fungal treatment to convert the leftover wastewater into fertilizer for agricultural crops.
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CareersThe Microbial EcoGenomics and Biotechnology Lab (MEGBLab)
At MEGBLab, our mission is to advance the understanding of microorganisms and their crucial role in environmental sustainability.
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NewsCaffeine-degrading microbes could tackle coffee pollution - and produce valuable pharmaceutical compounds
Caffeine-degrading microbes could offer vital bioremediation services as well as upcycling coffee waste into valuable pharmaceutical compounds, a new review suggests.
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NewsRepurposed beer yeast may offer a cost-effective way to remove lead from water
A filter made from yeast encapsulated in hydrogels can quickly absorb lead as water flows through it, researchers say.
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NewsScientists probe ‘superpower’ that allows soil bacteria to protect rice roots from pollution
Scientists have lifted the lid on how changes in cell surface hydrophobicity of a strain of soil bacterium may help to stave off heavy metal-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pollution from entering rice plant roots.
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FeaturesBiodeterioration and bioconservation of Mayan historical monuments: two sides of a coin
How understanding the microbiology of ancient sites is allowing researchers to preserve cultural heritage.
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NewsEfficient oil-eating bacteria cooperate to maximize dining capacity
Researchers find an oil-degrading bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis forms biofilms that consume the oil by surrounding and adhering strongly to the oil-water interface.
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NewsOlanike Maria Buraimoh appointed as latest AMI Global Ambassador
Applied Microbiology International (AMI) has announced that Dr Olanike Maria Buraimoh has been appointed as its latest Global Ambassador.
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NewsPlanting choices nurture microbes that break down petroleum contamination
Planting grasses or adding fertilizer, or a combination of both, to a contaminated site has surprisingly persistent effects on the microbes associated with local vegetation, a study has found.
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NewsBacteria can switch from rare earth metals to radioactive elements
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that bacteria can use certain radioactive elements to sustain their metabolism.
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CareersHarnessing fungi for greener alternatives
Davinia Salvachua answers questions about her ongoing work in lignin depolymerisation and experience with being an editor.
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FeaturesFungal Transformation and Biorecovery of Minerals, Metals and Metalloids
With growing concern over the management, conservation and recycling of world metal and mineral resources, it is clear that fungal capabilities may offer potentially useful solutions to an apparently insoluble problem.
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FeaturesClean water for all
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimated that, as of 2020, 2 billion people across the globe did not have access to safely managed drinking water.
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NewsCommon fungus eradicates toxic mercury from soil and water
Researchers have found that the fungus Metarhizium robertsii removes mercury from the soil around plant roots, and from fresh and saltwater, and have genetically engineered the fungus to amplify its mercury detoxifying effects.
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NewsGold mine bacterium can clean arsenic-polluted wastewater within days
A bacterium found in a former gold mine in Poland can clean up industrial wastewater polluted with arsenic, selenium and metals within days, researchers have discovered.
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FeaturesPesticide contamination: what can microbiologists do?
Agricultural production of food has more than doubled in the last century, enabled in part by the use of pesticides and other agrochemicals
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Long ReadsFood, medicine and bioremediation: fungus is the future
The answers to most of our current and future problems could lie beneath our feet in undiscovered soil fungi, in pristine forests and woodlands or in our global banks of discovered fungi.
