BIODEGRADABLE PLASTIC BAG

Imagine an oilseed, not part of the food chain, that can produce biodegradable plastic and improve the economics of making biodiesel. That is the vision of scientists at Cambridge, Mass.-based Metabolix Inc. and their research partners at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Creve Coeur.
The collaboration "really speaks to the fact that the Danforth Center has grown up and developed in ways that the science is relevant to the translation of basic research" into commercial products, said its PRESIDENT ROGER BEACHY. "That's the mission … that we laid out years ago."
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