Health Care Blog August 28, 2024
I feel much about synthetic biology as I do AI: I don’t really understand it from a technical point of view, but I sure am excited about its potential. Sometimes they even overlap, as I’ll discuss later. But I’ll start with some recent developments with bioplastics, a topic I have somehow never really covered.
Let’s start with some work at Washington University (St. Louis) involving, of all things, purple bacteria. In case you didn’t know it – I certainly didn’t – purple bacteria “are a special group of aquatic microbes renowned for their adaptability and ability to create useful compounds from simple ingredients,” according to the press release. The researchers are turning the bacteria into bioplastic factories.
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