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BacterioFiles 273 - Bottle-Biting Bacteria

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:07:02
Publish Date: 2016-10-24 05:00:00
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This episode: Newly discovered bacteria can break down especially long-lived type of plastic!

Download Episode (6.4 MB, 7 minutes) Show notes: News item 1/News item 2 (loginwall) Journal Paper: Yoshida S, Hiraga K, Takehana T, Taniguchi I, Yamaji H, Maeda Y, Toyohara K, Miyamoto K, Kimura Y, Oda K. 2016. A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate). Science 351:1196–1199.

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