<![CDATA[Plastic bottles transformed into Parkinson's drug using bacteria]]>Plastic bottles transformed into Parkinson's drug using bacteria

"Scientists at the University of Edinburgh engineered E. coli bacteria to turn a type of plastic used widely in food and drink packaging—polyethylene terephthalate, or PET—into L-DOPA. The process involves first breaking down PET waste—some 50 million tonnes of which are produced annually—into chemical building blocks of terephthalic acid. Molecules of terephthalic acid are then transformed into L-DOPA by the engineered bacteria through a series of biological reactions."

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-plastic-bottles-parkinson-drug-bacteria.html

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