Our world has developed a strong reliance on plastic items, resulting in significant negative impacts on the environment, society, economy, and health. Around the world, one million plastic bottles ...

E-commerce giant Amazon generated an estimated 321 million kilograms (709 million pounds) of plastic from packaging waste in 2021 alone. This is a result of billions of boxes it shipped to its ...

LILLE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gnosis by Lesaffre is striving to create a world that moves better, digests better, ages better, feels better, and, ultimately, lives better thanks to microorganisms ...

The fate of new chemical entities in the pharmaceutical discovery and development pipeline hinges on biotransformation pathways and the outcome of metabolite safety profiles. How best to secure and ...

Fatty acids and their derivatives are promising raw materials for manufacturing advanced biofuels, detergents, lubricants, surfactants and so on. Current supply of fatty acids is mainly through ...

Microbial biotransformation of steroids represents a dynamic field at the intersection of microbiology, biochemistry and biotechnology. This process harnesses the enzymatic capabilities of bacteria ...

An anaerobic fluidized-bed granular activated carbon bioreactor in series with an activated-sludge reactor was used to treat a wastewater containing 100 mg/L 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT). The ...