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Scientists Just Engineered Bacteria That Make Biodegradable Plastic
Scientists in South Korea have engineered tiny bacterial cells that are churning out plastic. The plastics produced by the ...
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E. Coli vs. Vegetables
Q: I have seen so many headlines saying that vegetables are contaminated with E. coli bacteria. I grow a lot of my own ...
Engineered E. coli could be used to produce biodegradable plastics
E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The ...
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Self-powered biosensor detects and destroys bacteria in water — No electricity needed
A self-powered, three-component biosensor capable of killing bacteria in water samples has been developed by materials ...
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BU researchers discover microplastics fuel antibiotic resistance
Litter near the Charles River. For 10 to 15 days, Nelia Gross, a PhD candidate studying materials science and engineering, and other researchers incubated several types of microplastics with E. coli, ...
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Microplastics Could Be Making Bacteria Resistant to Antibiotics
Researchers at Boston University have found that microplastics (MPs) provide an ideal platform for bacteria to form ...