Thursday, June 2, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Just Designed An Enzyme That Eats Plastic




They used AI to study 19000 proteins and determine what contributes to stability. 
Then they modified an existing bacterial plastic-suggesting enzyme to make it more temperature resilient. It breaks down the hard-to-recycle PET plastic and recovers 94% of the building blocks with which new plastic can be made. 

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