Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Chemists Develop Simple Method to Break Down Pollutants

Chemistry February 7, 2018

Chemists Develop Simple, Cost-Effective Method to Break Down Water Pollutants

Chemists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have found out how stubborn pollutants in water can be disintegrated easily and cost-effectively. To do so researchers…

Bacteria That Produce Gold by Digesting Toxic Metals

Chemistry January 31, 2018

Researchers Reveal How Bacteria Can Produce Gold by Digesting Toxic Metals

High concentrations of heavy metals, like copper and gold, are toxic for most living creatures. This is not the case for the bacterium C. metallidurans,…