Making climate-neutral plastics and cosmetics using bacteria
Plastics, medicines, cosmetics-there are very few everyday products that do not rely on using fossil resources. A European research team led by Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin is now aiming to revolutionize this cornerstone of the chemical industry: as part of the CarboNcare project, scientists are developing bacteria that can produce important chemical base materials from sustainable methanol-thereby replacing fossil resources.
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