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Scientists develop method to recycle plastic bottles into aviation fuel using less energy

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Scientists develop method to recycle plastic bottles into aviation fuel using less energy

A team led by Washington State University has developed a process to turn polyethylene or number 1 plastic bottles into jet fuel. (Michael Coghlan photo via Creative Commons) Humans produce more than 6 billion tons of plastic each year, and its buildup in landfills and oceans is viewed by many as an environmental crisis. Only … Read more

Harvard scientists create gene-editing tool that could rival CRISPR

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Mariella Moon

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biological Inspired Engineering at Harvard have developed a new gene editing tool that allows scientists to conduct millions of genetic experiments simultaneously. They call it the Retron Library Recombineering (RLR) technique, and it uses segments of bacterial DNA called retrons that can produce fragments of single-stranded DNA. When it … Read more