E. coli turns plastic into painkillers🤩
chemistry crashes the party in metabolism — and it works
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#synbio #metabolichacking #LossenRearrangement

Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol Genetically modified E coli used to create painkillers from material produced from plastic bottles

#GeneticallyModified #Ecoli have made #paracetamol out of #PlasticBottles—by merging chemistry & biology in this way for the first time

Scientists discovered that a ChemicalReaction called a #LossenRearrangement, a process never seen in nature, was #biocompatible
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...