Virus Teaches Bacteria to Eat Plastic 5x Faster Than Evolution Can Manage
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Every seventeen minutes, give or take, a bacteriophage called T7 tears open an E. coli cell from the inside. It has spent that time making perhaps 180 copies of itself, each one packed with DNA, and now the cell ruptures to release them into the world. Scientists at the National University of Singapore have been watching this cycle very carefully. Not because they want to destroy bacteria, but because they think the whole violent business could be repurposed: turned, with a bit of engineering, i
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