{"id":77868,"date":"2018-04-16T19:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scientists-engineer-plastic-eating-enzyme-that-could-help-fight-pollution"},"modified":"2018-04-16T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:02:25","slug":"scientists-engineer-plastic-eating-enzyme-that-could-help-fight-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scientists-engineer-plastic-eating-enzyme-that-could-help-fight-pollution","title":{"rendered":"Scientists engineer plastic-eating enzyme that could help fight pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-engineer-plastic-eating-enzyme-that-could-help-fight-pollution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have improved a naturally-occurring enzyme to enhance its plastic-eating abilities. The modified enzyme, which can digest strong plastic used in bottles, could help in the fight against pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the US and Britain have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme to speed up its abilities to digest plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Britain\u2019s University of Portsmouth and the US Department of Energy\u2019s National Renewable Energy Laboratory \u201ctweaked\u201d the structure of the naturally-occurring enzyme after they found that it was helping a bacteria to break down, or digest, plastic used to make bottles.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/scientists-engineer-plastic-eating-enzyme-that-could-help-fight-pollution\/a-43414142?maca=en-RSS_en_Flipboard-9487-xml-media\">http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/scientists-engineer-plastic-eating-enzy...-xml-media<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have improved a naturally-occurring enzyme to enhance its plastic-eating abilities. The modified enzyme, which can digest strong plastic used in bottles, could help in the fight against pollution. Researchers in the US and Britain have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme to speed up its abilities to digest plastic. Scientists from Britain\u2019s University of Portsmouth and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77868","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}