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Scientists Win $1.2 Million Prize for Research That Could Make Protein Shakes from Plastic Waste

Germany’s Merck awards prize to University of Illinois, Michigan Technological University researchers who found a way to use bacteria to turn polymers into edible material

By
Stefanie Haxel

Two U.S. scientists won a roughly $1.2 million prize for developing a way of using bacteria to turn plastic into protein powder.

German pharmaceutical and chemicals company Merck KGaA said Tuesday it awarded its annual Future Insight Prize to bioengineer Ting Lu from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and microbiologist Stephen Techtmann from Michigan Technological University.

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