tangledwing , 4 months ago https://scitechdaily.com/engineered-bacteria-eat-waste-plastic-and-make-spider-silk-natures-kevlar/ Researchers turned plastic trash into strong and eco-friendly materials - kind of like spider silk. They used naturally occurring bacteria 🦠 to consume polyethylene plastic as a food source, and engineered it to produce a genetically encoded silk protein. #environment #science #sustainability #chemistry #biology #nature
https://scitechdaily.com/engineered-bacteria-eat-waste-plastic-and-make-spider-silk-natures-kevlar/ Researchers turned plastic trash into strong and eco-friendly materials - kind of like spider silk. They used naturally occurring bacteria 🦠 to consume polyethylene plastic as a food source, and engineered it to produce a genetically encoded silk protein. #environment #science #sustainability #chemistry #biology #nature