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Researchers use CRISPR to engineer plastic eating microbe

A team of researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale is using microbes to turn single-use plastics into biodegradable plastics and bioproducts, including biodegradable jet fuel, nylon and chemicals used in chemotherapy and child myopia treatments. They published their findings in Trends in Biotechnology.  Common recycling practices can only use a fraction of plastic waste in… The post Researchers use CRISPR to engineer plastic eating…
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Research & Development World broke the news on Monday, May 4, 2026.
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