{"id":113573,"date":"2020-09-29T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-create-enzyme-that-devours-plastic-at-incredible-speed"},"modified":"2020-09-29T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:23:13","slug":"scientists-create-enzyme-that-devours-plastic-at-incredible-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-create-enzyme-that-devours-plastic-at-incredible-speed","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Enzyme That Devours Plastic at Incredible Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-enzyme-that-devours-plastic-at-incredible-speed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>All Hands<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The new enzyme can make its way through plastic six times faster than the previous plastic-devouring enzyme developed by members of the same team, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2020\/09\/23\/2006753117.short?rss=1\">according to research<\/a> published Monday in the journal <em>PNAS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were actually quite surprised it worked so well,\u201d McGeehan told <em>CNN<\/em>, though he added that the enzyme is \u201cstill way too slow\u201d to be helpful at any meaningful scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Hands The new enzyme can make its way through plastic six times faster than the previous plastic-devouring enzyme developed by members of the same team, according to research published Monday in the journal PNAS. \u201cWe were actually quite surprised it worked so well,\u201d McGeehan told CNN, though he added that the enzyme is \u201cstill [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}