{"id":143189,"date":"2022-07-30T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/new-bioremediation-material-can-clean-forever-chemicals"},"modified":"2022-07-31T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T16:08:14","slug":"new-bioremediation-material-can-clean-forever-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/new-bioremediation-material-can-clean-forever-chemicals","title":{"rendered":"New bioremediation material can clean \u2018forever chemicals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-bioremediation-material-can-clean-forever-chemicals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A novel bioremediation technology for cleaning up per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, chemical pollutants that threaten human health and ecosystem sustainability, has been developed by Texas A&amp;M AgriLife researchers. The material has potential for commercial application for disposing of PFAS, also known as \u201cforever chemicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Published July 28 in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/research\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">research<\/a> was a collaboration of Susie Dai, Ph.D., associate professor in the Texas A&amp;M Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, and Joshua Yuan, Ph.D., chair and professor in Washington University in St. Louis Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, formerly with the Texas A&amp;M Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology.<\/p>\n<p><b>Removing PFAS contamination is a challenge<\/b><\/p>\n<p>PFAS are used in many applications such as food wrappers and packaging, dental floss, fire-fighting foam, nonstick cookware, textiles and electronics. These days, PFAS are widely distributed in the environment from manufacturing or from products containing the chemicals, said Dai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel bioremediation technology for cleaning up per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, chemical pollutants that threaten human health and ecosystem sustainability, has been developed by Texas A&amp;M AgriLife researchers. The material has potential for commercial application for disposing of PFAS, also known as \u201cforever chemicals.\u201d Published July 28 in Nature Communications, the research was a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143189","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143286,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143189\/revisions\/143286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}