Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time – and some of nature's tiniest organisms may ...

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 ...

A dangerous hospital superbug has been found to digest plastic—specifically the kind used in some sutures, stents and ...

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

The finding means that bacteria, such as the one they studied, could degrade medical implants, lead to infections at the site ...

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

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

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

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 ...