Plastic Bottles Refined Into Parkinson’s Drug: Bacteria Drive Upcycling Breakthrough
TL;DR
Engineers at the University of Edinburgh used engineered E. coli to break down PET plastic waste into L-DOPA, the main drug for Parkinson’s, creating a sustainable upcycling pathway from discarded bottles and signaling potential expansion to other products, with work now focusing on industrial scalability and environmental performance.
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