Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the ...

A group of researchers from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences – Biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich, in collaboration with the company Novonesis, has successfully engineered a bacterium ...

In addition, genes for special enzymes, known as nylonases, were introduced to allow the bacteria to use short nylon chains from chemically decomposed nylon as an additional food source.