Bacterium converts individual building blocks of nylon into value-added products

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Feb 10, 2025, 10:53 am100 pts
A team of scientists from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences–Biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich worked together with the company Novonesis to develop a bacterium that "eats" individual building blocks of different types of nylon and converts them into value-added products. The results of this…

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