This might involve creating conditions to grow the strain within activated sludge at a wastewater treatment plant, or even injecting the bacteria directly into the soil or groundwater of a ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — Biomedical engineers have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy ...

Conventional activated sludge systems operated for biological nutrient removal ... of the BNR performances caused by bacterial community imbalances with overgrowth of filamentous or zoogloeal ...

Fungi, especially filamentous fungi, are a relatively understudied ... nonredundant reference sequences is 398 for fungi compared with 37,232 for bacteria. (16) Improving the state of public fungal ...

To optimize extraction and recovery of phages, more research is needed on how the flocs and granules’ structure hinders phage recovery and what are the prevailing chemical and physical interactions ...

Over the past five months, Spectrum News investigated the use of sewage sludge — also known as biosolids — on farmland and efforts to ban it because it can be contaminated with cancer-causing “forever ...

The 69-year-old retired veteran says he can’t after tests found dangerous contaminants in it that he says came from the next-door farm that spread sewage sludge — the byproduct of human waste — for ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — New research has yielded promising results in the fight against campylobacter in free-range chicken flocks. Trials demonstrate that adding biochar to chicken feed can reduce ...

Some focus on chlorine removal, while others incorporate multi-stage filtration to target heavy metals, sediments, and bacteria. Activated carbon filters, KDF filters, and vitamin C-infused filters ...