NUS scientists unveil a faster way to "train" bacteria for complex tasks, like munching plastics
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Millions of tonnes of plastic waste accumulate in landfills and oceans every year. One promising response is to engineer microbes to break the plastic down into useful chemical building blocks. However, teaching a bacterium to digest plastic efficiently demands fine-tuning not just one gene, but entire clusters of genes working in concert, like upgrading every machine on a factory assembly line rather than swapping out a single part.
A new platform developed by researchers from the National Univ