Four years ago an accident resulted in a plastic-eating mutant that just might save us all
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- NewsBreak Plastic has been taking over our world for a while now. You may not think too much about it, but plastic is a…
- NewsBreak Plastic has been taking over our world for a while now. You may not think too much about it, but plastic is a…
Imagine taking a worn-out pair of sneakers or used yoga pants back to the brand that produced them, knowing the polyester…
Beaches littered with plastic bottles and wrappers. Marine turtles, their stomachs filled with fragments of plastic.
Beaches littered with plastic bottles and wrappers. Marine turtles, their stomachs filled with fragments of plastic.
Beaches littered with plastic bottles and wrappers. Marine turtles, their stomachs filled with fragments of plastic.
Beaches littered with plastic bottles and wrappers. Marine turtles, their stomachs filled with fragments of plastic.
University of Portsmouth joins leading AI researchers at DeepMind to help engineer faster acting enzymes for recycling some of…
Whilst many people associate microbes with being bad and causing illness and disease, they also have many beneficial properties…
Emily Leproust, PhD Synthetic biology has become a powerful tool to advance science, making processes more efficient, enabling…
Due, meglio di uno. Magari non sempre, ma di sicuro quando si tratta di mangiare la plastica.
A research group, who earlier developed a plastic-destroying enzyme, have developed a cocktail-version, a series of chemicals…
SmartNews Keeping you current The new enzyme could allow for infinite recycling of common PET plastic used in water bottles and…
We’re in trouble. Our over-reliance on fossil fuels and our taste for foods with a high carbon footprint is causing disruptive…
We need to win the war on plastic, and with this enzyme, we can. Chidi Aug 10 · 6 min read L ook around you, this ubiquitous…
Sometime between 2010 and 2015, a tiny organism with an unusual appetite made a home in an industrial site near a bottle-recyclin…
Tempat pembuangan sampah tidak diduga-duga menjadi tempat para ilmuwan menemukan mikroorganisme dan enzim yang diharapkan dapat…
来源:中国科普博览 2018年诺贝尔化学奖于北京时间10月3日18时许揭晓。两位美国科学家和一位英国科学家获得了该项荣誉。与诺贝尔物理学奖类似,化学奖也颇有“黑马”的意思。当然,争议归争议,获奖成果本身的含金量绝对对得起这份表彰。 三位获奖学者,来源:诺贝尔…
A dump truck’s worth of plastic empties into the ocean every minute. Worldwide, humankind produces over 300 million tons of…
Return to Article List SDSC’s 'Comet' Supercomputer Helps Simulate PETase Enzyme Interactions Article ID: 696842 Released: 28-Jun…
Home Technology Engineering June 28, 2018 June 28, 2018 by Jorge Salazar, Texas Advanced Computing Center A dump truck's worth…
A dump truck’s worth of plastic empties into the ocean every minute. Worldwide, humankind produces over 300 million tons of…
Since it was discovered, the enzyme known as PETase has drawn a great deal of scientific interest for its capacity of digesting…
Home Chemistry Biochemistry / Materials Science May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018, FAPESP Since it was discovered, the enzyme known as…
Since it was discovered, the enzyme known as PETase has been drawing a great deal of scientific interest for its capacity of…
Home Earth Environment May 14, 2018 May 14, 2018 by Renee Cho, Earth Institute, Columbia University Plastic permeates just…
Imagínese que usted es un científico y que descubre una poderosa enzima capaz de degradar el plástico.
Home Biology Other May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 by Daniel Bojar, Public Library of Science On April 2010, the Gulf of Mexico turned…
A breakthrough in enzyme research led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the…
A breakthrough in enzyme research led by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the…
One of the amazing things about our universe is that nothing really goes to waste.
In 2016, after spending five years searching through piles of waste, Japanese researchers discovered a strain of bacteria that…
Brasileiros participam de trabalho internacional para aumentar a capacidade da PETase de decompor o polietileno tereftalato (PET…
El plástico es omnipresente, barato y fácil de producir, pero deshacernos de él es un quebradero de cabeza, pues no se degrada…
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Poly(ethylene terephthalate), or PET, is widely used in beverage bottles, clothing, packaging, and carpeting.
Poly(ethylene terephthalate), or PET, is widely used in beverage bottles, clothing, packaging, and carpeting.
No, seriously: plastics may actually be co-opted to help reduce harm to the environment -- but only if we stop screwing it up…
Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could help in the future…
Our understanding of Earth — and how we’re changing it — just keeps expanding. Earth Day turns 48 this Sunday, April 22, and…
Earth Day turns 48 this Sunday, April 22. When Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.) founded it in 1970, his hope was to make the…
Marta Buonadonna - 20 aprile 2018 Affoghiamo in un mare di plastica, ma questa emergenza ambientale può essere affrontata e…
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Durch Zufall haben Forscher aus den USA und Grobritannien ein Plastik zerstrendes Enzym geschaffen, welches das Problem der…
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Scientists recently engineered an enzyme that can digest certain polluted plastics.
Home Chemistry Materials Science April 19, 2018 April 19, 2018 by Emily Flashman, The Conversation The plastic bottles we throw…
Science Ticker Your daily roundup of research news Science News Staff Scientists’ tweak led to more breakdown of plastics found…
Business | 2018-04-19Page no: 18 Plastic-eating enzyme holds promise in fighting pollution SCIENTISTS in Britain and the United…
By applying tweaks to a bacteria that can eat plastic, researchers accidentally produced an enzyme that can break down plastic…
Justin Sullivan / Staff Plastics come in all kinds of different types with all kinds of different properties, making them some…
The enzyme could help clean up our polluted oceans and landfills Plastics come in all kinds of different types with all kinds…
In 2014, Americans, and only 9.5 percent of it was recycled. Which is a shame (to put it lightly).
Scientists accidentally created an enzyme that can break down plastic. But is it any better than recycling? You might call it a…
This enzyme, engineered to devour plastic at a higher rate, could one day be used to curb plastic pollution.
× Scientists hope new enzyme will ‘eat’ plastic pollution NEW ORLEANS — Scientists have accidentally developed a plastic-eating…
An international team of researchers from the United States, UK and Brazil has engineered an enzyme which can digest…
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The plastic bottles we throw away today will be around for hundreds of years. It’s one of the key reasons why the mounting…
The plastic bottles we throw away today will be around for hundreds of years. It’s one of the key reasons why the mounting…
Scientists accidentally discover enzyme that could 'eat' plastic pollution Pollution has negative effects on our health, but…
Scientists accidentally discover enzyme that could 'eat' plastic pollution Pollution has negative effects on our health, but…
Pollution has negative effects on our health, but scientists may be able to better combat the issue with a plastic-eating…
Scientists accidentally discover enzyme that could 'eat' plastic pollution Pollution has negative effects on our health, but…
N.B. Het kan zijn dat elementen ontbreken aan deze printversie. Een ‘per ongeluk’ aangepast enzym van een plasticverterende…
Ученые университета Портсмута и Национальной лаборатории возобновляемой энергии (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL) Мини…
Scientists have accidentally engineered an enzyme capable of breaking down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) that could assist…
Genom att mutera ett enzym från en plastätande bakterie har forskare nu – av misstag – gjort ett möjligt genombrott i arbetet…
Et si les scientifiques avaient trouvé la solution pour dépolluer les océans ? Des chercheurs britanniques et américains ont créé…
At the rate plastic bottles and the like are entering the world’s oceans, beachgoers may need to start wading long before they…
Der Plastikmüll in den Meeren ist ein Problem. Nun haben Forscher ein Enzym so verändert, dass es PET innerhalb weniger Tage…
Dennis Schroeder / NREL Imagem de microscopia electrónica da enzima descoberta no NREL Acidentalmente, uma equipa de cientistas…
(Reuters) – Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could in future…
Pollution has negative effects on our health, but scientists may be able to better combat the issue with a plastic-eating…
Researchers in the US and Britain have accidentally engineered an enzyme which eats plastic and may eventually help solve the…
Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that digests plastic bottles. And this "inadvertent" discovery could result in a…
Scientists have created an enzyme that "eats" plastic and could help fight against pollution.
Researchers estimate that only 9 percent of the plastic in the world is recycled.
Las botellas de plástico tardan siglos en degradarse, pero ahora una nueva enzima creada por azar en laboratorio aporta una…
Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could in future help in the…
Scientists have accidentally developed a plastic-eating enzyme that may be used to combat one of the world's worst pollution…
New hope to rid earth from plastic waste. Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest some of our most commonly…
Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that digests plastic bottles. And this “inadvertent” discovery could result in a…
A genetically engineered enzyme could provide a more elegant solution for plastic bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET…
Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could in future help in the…
Scientists have engineered an enzyme to digest PET plastics - which last for hundreds of years and pollute large areas of land…
IMPACT 04/17/2018 10:50 am ET The discovery may be a breakthrough in tackling the plastic pollution crisis.
A Japanese waste dump is an unlikely location for what may be a huge breakthrough in the plastics pollution crisis.
Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could in future help in the…
Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could in future help in the…
An international team of scientists have engineered an enzyme that can “eat” one of the most commonly used plastics…