Given the increased reporting of multi-resistant bacteria and the shortage of newly approved
medicines, researchers have been looking towards extreme and unusual environments as a …

This article gives a very brief overview of the antibiotic era, beginning from the discovery of
first antibiotics until the present day situation, which is marred by the emergence of hard-to …

Clay minerals are very common in nature and highly reactive minerals which are typical
products of the weathering of the most abundant silicate minerals on the planet. Over recent …

Despite the connections between soils and human health, there has not been a great
amount of attention focused on this area when compared to many other fields of scientific …

Marine bioprospecting, which involves the exploration of genetic and biochemical material
from marine organisms, can be used towards addressing a broad range of public and …

Both, antibiotic persistence and antibiotic resistance characterize phenotypes of survival in
which a bacterial cell becomes insensitive to one (or even) more antibiotic (s). However, the …

In light of recent predictions that by 2050, antimicrobial resistance will cause almost 10
million deaths annually, costing the global economy 100 trillion US dollars, the examination …

During 1 year, samples were taken on 4 days, one sample in each season, from pigs, the
floor, and the air inside pig barns and from the ambient air and soil at different distances …

Red soils, which are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of southern China,
are characterized by low organic carbon, high content of iron oxides, and acidity and, hence …

Clays have played an important role in medicine since the dawn of mankind and are still
applied widely as active ingredients and/or excipients in pharmaceutical formulations. Due …