Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

How plastic bottles have been transformed into a life-changing drug - Around 166,000 people live with Parkinson's in the UK ...

Plastic to possibilities ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for ...

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

The method utilizes the power of bacteria to turn waste consumer plastic into L-DOPA, a medication for the neurological disorder.

Scientists engineer E. coli to convert PET plastic bottle waste into L-DOPA, a primary treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Stephen Techtmann, a microbiologist at Michigan ...

Scientists have discovered how to turn used plastic bottles into a drug to treat Parkinson’s disease. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh genetically engineered bacteria to break down waste ...

Chemists and innovative recyclers are trying to turn gloves, pipette tips, and other laboratory plastic waste into something useful ...