Making climate-neutral plastics and cosmetics using bacteria

Plastics, medicines, cosmetics—there are very few everyday products that do not rely on using fossil resources.

A European research team led by Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin is now aiming to revolutionize this cornerstone of the chemical industry: as part of the CarboNcare project, scientists are developing bacteria that can produce important chemical base materials from sustainable methanol—thereby replacing fossil resources. ...