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Texas A&M Team Develops Polymers That Can Kill Bacteria (today.tamu.edu)
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[–] absquatulate 6 points 1 year ago

So we are concurrently developing plastic-eating bacteria as well as bacteria-killing polymers. I smell epic battle potential

[–] TheDeepState 2 points 1 year ago

Kill them MFs!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We need our gut biomes to live

Microplastics are in everything

Surely there's no way this can go wrong!

[–] Alexstarfire 3 points 1 year ago

Inject it into our veins and we can be bacteria free. You don't want bacteria in you, do you?

[–] Eheran 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you get from polymers to micropastic? You are absolutely full of polymers already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I first thought polymer = plastic but I guess that is not correct. So can I blame poor science education?

Alternatively: get these polymers outta me, gross!

[–] Eheran 1 points 1 year ago

Hahaha, that would be... unhealthy.