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 ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom identified an enzyme, which they called Pap1, in a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ...

Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows ...