Eight people have died in the U.S. this year in Florida and Louisiana from infection with Vibrio vulnificus, a "flesh-eating" ...

Another person in Bay County has died from Vibrio vulnificus infection, the Florida Department of Health said, bringing the ...

A researcher from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) has identified a new method to clean up oil spills at sea -- bioremediation using oil - ...

Q. How does the metabolism of oil-eating bacteria break down oil? And how do they survive when no oil is available? A. The most closely studied of these rod-shaped bacteria, Alcanivorax ...

Eleven people in Florida, including two in St. Johns County, have been infected with Vibrio vulnificus, a "flesh-eating" ...

At least eight people along the Gulf Coast have died and 22 others have been infected with Vibrio vulnificus bacteria.

But generally microbes need a steady food supply. Without any additional influx of grease in over 25 years, it’s hard to know what the oil-associated microbes might be eating after all this time.

The BP oil spill is likely to exacerbate this problem, as natural oil-eating microbes swarming over undersea oil plumes could cause or add to hypoxic conditions in otherwise teeming swaths of the ...

Nanomaterials can also be used in dispersants. Clay-based nanomaterials can stabilize oil particles in an emulsion, resulting in a larger area for oil-eating bacteria to grow and accelerating oil ...

Loosing a large colony of oil-eating microbes on the next oil spill, then, might also create what's called a hypoxic dead zone -- though work being done on the oil spill area now suggests that ...