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Marine Bacteria Join Forces to Devour Biodegradable Plastic
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MIT researchers have made a crucial discovery: the degradation of biodegradable plastics in the ocean is not the work of a single superbacteria, but of a real team work. They have identified a consortium of five bacterial species that collaborate to "mineralize" a plastic completely, one cutting the polymer into small pieces and the others consuming chemical residues.
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