Water-soluble polymers (WSPs) have unique properties that are valuable in diverse
applications ranging from home and personal care products to agricultural formulations. For …

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) are a serious threat to the health of people and the
ecological environment. With this problem becoming more and more serious, more countries …

Despite decades of micropollutant (MP) monitoring at wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs),
we lack a fundamental understanding of the time-varying metabolic processes driving MP …

The goal of this research was to identify functional groups that determine rates of
micropollutant (MP) biotransformations performed by wastewater microbial communities. To …

Several antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are emerging as promising novel antibiotics. When
released into wastewater streams after use, AMPs might be hydrolyzed and inactivated by …

Antibiotics in the environment cause widespread concern as a result of their potent inhibitory
action on microbial growth and their role in potentially creating selective conditions for …

The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance is a major societal challenge and new
antibiotics are needed to successfully fight bacterial infections. Because the release of …