The bacteria turning waste plastic into painkillers
Source: BBC
Zoe CorbynTechnology Reporter, San FranciscoGetty ImagesE. coli has been used in many discoveries in genetics and molecular biologyEarlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste plastic made headlines. A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday painkiller, paracetamol.The microbe used by Stephen Wallace, professor of…
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