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

This ability may allow the bacteria to persist longer on hospital surfaces and inside medical devices—areas once assumed to ...

Listeria monocytongenes, an elusive bacteria that typically resides in soil, water, vegetation, animal poop, and raw milk, ...

A new study reveals that Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common hospital bacteria in India, can degrade medical-grade plastic. This ...

A common hospital bacterium can eat plastic in sutures and stents, making infections harder to control and medical gear ...

A dangerous hospital superbug, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, can now digest medical plastic like sutures and implants, ...

Dangerous' bacteria can survive in sterile hospitals by munching on plastic medical equipment, new research warns ...

Notably, the bacteria is known as a major cause of catheter-related urinary tract infections (UTIs) and ventilator-associated pneumonia—both of which are associated with plastic-based medical ...

University of Queensland researchers have developed a biodegradable plastic to set a new sustainability standard for ...

While scientists have discovered bacteria that can eat plastic ... Hopefully, research into self-eating plastic and other alternatives will continue to make advancements, and we’ll have ...

and found that when that bacteria expressed the enzyme, it too was able to break down PCL. The team further confirmed the enzyme's plastic-eating role when they deleted the gene that codes for it ...