Engineering a Plastic-Eating Enzyme

ENN
Apr 16, 2018, 4:43 pm80 pts
Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest some of our most commonly polluting plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world’s biggest environmental problems.

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