TEHRAN (ANA)- Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a method to transform plastic waste into biodegradable spider silk using bacteria, providing an innovative and sustainable approach to tackling plastic pollution.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers at Aston University have identified an entirely new class of antibiotic that can kill bacteria that are resistant to most current drugs.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian Vice-President for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy Rouhollah Deqani Firouzabadi said that the country’s scientists have developed the pneumococcal vaccine which inactivates 13 strains of bacteria.

TEHRAN (ANA)- A novel surgical implant developed by Washington State University researchers was able to kill 87% of the bacteria that cause staph infections in laboratory tests, while remaining strong and compatible with surrounding tissue like current implants.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers at the Arctic University of Norway have found a bacteriocin that can help inhibit the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

TEHRAN (ANA)- For the first time, a team of scientists and physicians from the Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP) and Inserm monitored the development of children infected with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes up to the age of 5, and compared their development with that of uninfected gestational age-matched children.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers from The University of Toledo have discovered potential avenues to utilize our body’s microbiome in managing blood pressure.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers at Hudson Institute of Medical Research have developed a novel computational method to understand the gut microbiome, challenging previous beliefs about Crohn’s Disease and paving the way for targeted microbial therapies.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers at the University of Birmingham have identified a 'guard mechanism' for a protein which attacks microbes in infected cells, opening the possibility of new treatments for Toxoplasma, Chlamydia, Tuberculosis and even cancer.

TEHRAN (ANA)- A team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) has engineered one of the most common species of bacteria, Escherichia coli, to generate electricity from brewery wastewater – and it has surpassed the most recent bioengineered strains.