Her brother, Moji Karimi, worked with a company that wanted to sequence the DNA of microbes living in oil and gas wells. Both Karimi siblings were passionate about sustainability; when their ...

Oil-eating bacteria like these are also found on the ocean's surface, and helped degrade much of the oily refuse that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The idea is to pump specially developed microbes into depleted oil wells, where they'll eat oil and excrete hydrogen. Humans have been harnessing tiny single-celled and multicellular organisms to ...

Still, marine environments have a mechanism to break down the oil that ends up in the water—bacteria. New research recently published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, outlines that ...

Hyderabad: Researchers have isolated a potent strain of bacteria from a petroleum-contaminated site in Nacharam area, capable ...

Most common soils contain bacteria that can “eat” hydrocarbons; if oil is spilled on the soil, they multiply enthusiastically, and soon the oil disappears. Bacteria can even live on paraffin ...

In a recently completed field study, Cemvita used its oil-eating microbes to produce carbon-neutral hydrogen from a depleted oil well in the Permian Basin. The company has subsequently created a ...

petroleum-eating bacteria that live thousands of metres beneath the seafloor seep out into the ocean. They may then float around in a dormant state before coming back to life in other distant oil ...

The small motorboat anchors in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. Shrieks of wintering birds assault the vessel’s five crew members, all clad in bright orange flotation suits. One of the crew ...

That'd be one fast petri dish, rife with fuel-eating bacteria that could one day be our allies during awful oil spills. So the next time you're angry at dirt and grime around your gas cap ...

However, certain oil-degrading bacteria thrive in oil-spill conditions and contribute remarkably to the bioremediation of oil. Although biofilms, which are communities formed by bacteria, play a ...

Once the micro-organisms are poured on the fuel, enzymes break down the fuel's harmful components while bacteria digest them.