Microplastics are abundant in municipal wastewater, with concentrations ranging from 10 to 470 particles per liter in sewage. Despite the vast scale of urban sewer systems—extensive underground ...

Anaerobic methane formation and anaerobic methane oxidation are important microbial processes in the global carbon cycle. Both processes are mediated by syntrophic communities of bacteria and archaea.

Introduction Oral iron supplementation is given in a broad range of conditions such as iron-deficiency anaemia but can cause significant gastrointestinal side effects in up to 70% of patients.

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The mastoid process is a bony projection behind the ears that serves as an attachment point for muscles. Pain in the mastoid process can be caused by infections like mastoiditis or muscle issues like ...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, a relatively clean burning fossil fuel, but also a renewable biofuel when biologically produced from waste treatment plants. Most (~70%) of the global methane ...

Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, Chengdu 610041, China ...