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Plastic bottles recycled to make Parkinson’s disease drug

Researchers used a specially engineered bacteria to convert a common plastic into L-DOPA, which replaces lost dopamine in the brain Scientists may have found an unexpected solution to the scourge of plastic pollution: transforming waste packaging into one of the most effective drugs for Parkinson’s disease. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh used a specially engineered ba... [3549 chars]

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