{"id":172918,"date":"2023-09-27T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/genetically-modified-bacteria-break-down-plastics-in-saltwater"},"modified":"2023-09-27T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:22:23","slug":"genetically-modified-bacteria-break-down-plastics-in-saltwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/genetically-modified-bacteria-break-down-plastics-in-saltwater","title":{"rendered":"Genetically modified bacteria break down plastics in saltwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetically-modified-bacteria-break-down-plastics-in-saltwater2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A genetically engineered marine microorganism is shown to break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in saltwater. This plastic, used in everything from water bottles to clothing, is a significant contributor to microplastic pollution in oceans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is exciting because we need to address <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuretimeline.net\/the-far-future-2300-2999.htm#waste\" target=\"_blank\">plastic pollution<\/a> in marine environments,\u201d says Nathan Crook, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A genetically engineered marine microorganism is shown to break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in saltwater. This plastic, used in everything from water bottles to clothing, is a significant contributor to microplastic pollution in oceans. \u201cThis is exciting because we need to address plastic pollution in marine environments,\u201d says Nathan Crook, corresponding author of a paper [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172918","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\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}