A drug to treat Parkinson's disease can be made from waste plastic bottles using a pioneering method, a study shows. The approach harnesses the power of bacteria to transform post-consumer plastic ...

How plastic bottles have been transformed into a life-changing drug - Around 166,000 people live with Parkinson's in the UK ...

Scientists engineer E. coli to convert PET plastic bottle waste into L-DOPA, a primary treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

What if the life cycle of the plastic bottle was circular? Where a used plastic bottle was returned to its original components, ready to be made into a new plastic bottle instead of possibly ending up ...

Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.

Using nanomaterial-based catalysts, we drive depolymerisation, a process that breaks plastics back into their molecular ...

The method utilizes the power of bacteria to turn waste consumer plastic into L-DOPA, a medication for the neurological ...

A research team has demonstrated that a material called a metal-organic framework (MOF) is a stable and selective catalyst for breaking down polyester-based plastic into its component parts. Only ...