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Scientists turn plastic waste into Parkinson’s drug

bmj · 2026-03-30 · canonical JSON source

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Not this time. This is about using plastic bottle waste to make levodopa, one of the main drugs used to treat Parkinson’s disease. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh genetically engineered E coli bacteria to help transform polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into the drug.