‘Pac-Man’ enzyme breaks down bioplastics and penicillin in laboratory tests
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- In the ocean, plastic waste collects to form large garbage patches that endanger marine life. This is partly because the synthetic plastic polymers used today can only be broken down biologically—that is, by microorganisms—at a very slow rate. Instead, the physical fragmentation of these materials…