Rohan Chakravarty

2 days ago | thehindu.com | Rohan Chakravarty |Vasudevan Mukunth

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!)Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have found a way to make a classic lab reaction, called the Lossen rearrangement, happen safely inside living Escherichia coli cells — thus opening a potential new path to recycling plastic waste into valuable products.