Breaking's enzymes will treat a wider breadth of plastics and degrade them faster per surface area

Breaking's enzymes will treat a wider breadth of plastics and degrade them faster per surface area | we were able to use directed evolution and supercharge it using our pipeline uh and some of our editing tools so that not only does it have a larger breath of plastics it can break down but uh it also breaks them down at a much faster rate per surface area.

we were able to use directed evolution and supercharge it using our pipeline uh and some of our editing tools so that not only does it have a larger breath of plastics it can break down but uh it also breaks them down at a much faster rate per surface area.

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