How Is Industrial Biotechnology Being Used to Produce Biodegradable Plastics and Biofuels, and Why Hasn’t It Replaced Petrochemicals on a Large Scale Yet
You’re holding a plastic water bottle. It feels exactly like every other plastic bottle you’ve ever touched — rigid, lightweight, transparent. But this one was made by bacteria. Living microorganisms consumed sugar, processed it through their metabolic pathways, and excreted the polymer chains that eventually […]