Cleaning up plastics in the environment with microbial help
The Galveston County Daily News, Oct. 22, 2024
New research has found a microbial species that could help break down the large plastic garbage patches floating in the Pacific Ocean, write Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel in their weekly Medical Discovery News column. “The researchers are going to try to optimize the fungus to eat as much plastic as possible,” they write.