Scientists have created an enzyme that eats plastic

The world's oceans are filled with plastics more than 5 million pieces of it are floating around being eaten by aquatic animals. Every year more than 100,000 marine animals and seabirds are killed by plastic waste.The accidental discovery of this natural enzyme was made while examining the structure of a bacterium found in the waste dump in Japan.A crew of Japanese researchers described that this bacteria named as Ideonella Sakaiensis could break the molecular bonds of one of the world's most used plastics Polyethylene terephthalate.

The aim of the researchers was to determine how this works and what's the structure of it, but they ended up creating an artificial one better than the natural one.Ideonella Sakaiensis was found outside of a bottle recycling plant, the pathogen appears to have evolved a pair of enzymes.It uses these break down a PET.PETase works by reversing the manufacturing process by reducing polyesters back to their building blocks.Ideonella Sakaiensis can degrade PET in 96 hours you can see it clearly via electron microscope that the PET being degraded.This natural enzyme could result in recycling millions of tonnes of plastic, especially plastic bottles.It is estimated that the world produces over 300 million tonnes of plastic every year.Currently, we are buying 10,00,000 (1 million) plastic bottles per minute world widely and we recycle only 15% of that.

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Axolotl, the creature which can regenerate pretty much regenerate anything in it's body

Meet the creature that can pretty much regenerate everything in it's body. Axolotl, a Mexican salamander which is familiarly known as " walking fish " but it's not a fish it's an amphibian.This creature can regenerate the same limb for more than one hundred times. This specie can be found in Lake Xochimilco. Lake Xochimilco In the wild it remains in the larva state and will never undergoes Metamorphosis into an adult salamander. According to International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources [IUCN] these species are critically endangered.The key thing for it's regenerative ability is it's immune system. Immune cells called Macrophages are critical during the early stage of regenerating it's lost limbs. Taking out of these cells,permanently stopped it's regeneration ability.In fact, Macrophages Scientists done an experiment by injecting a drug which takes off the Macrophages completely, they observed no r

The Drug to prevent MIGRAINE

Scientists have developed a new drug to prevent migraine : Erenumab is an injectable drug that blocks pain signals in the brain.The drug, called Erenumab consists of human antibodies. It works by targeting a receptor in the brain where a protein associated with migraines usually blinds. This protein transmits migraine pain signals during an attack. Erenumab blocks this receptor. thus preventing a migraine attack. the drug reduced the number of monthly migraine attacks by more than 50%. No side effects of this drug were recorded in human patients. Migraine is a neurological disorder characterized by a severe throbbing pain on one or both sides of the head. In some cases, head pain may be accompained by other symptoms including Naused, vomiting, numbness or tingling in the face. Patients may be also experience sensitivity to light and sound and vision problems. There are four main phases of a migraine PHASE 1: The Prodrome wh

Paying with your face

No credit cards, debit cards, cheques ,vouchers ,cryptocurrencies. Just smile into the camera and your payment is done Interesting isn't it, this is the technology from Face++.Already this has been used in many popular apps.In China now it is possible to transfer money through Alipay a new revolutionary mobile payments app used by more than 120 million people in China.This uses only your face as credentials.This system seems to work quite simple.Once a picture is uploaded into the system, payments confirmations,Identity verifications goes immediately in place by itself. This can also detect gender,differentiate face,eye status and much moreApart from that new payments app Didi, one of the most authoritative ride-hailing company of China uses the Face ++ software to let passengers confirm that the person behind the vehicle is a legitimate and licensed d river. .. Face payments can improve the financial security of the user. This Face++ software is also used to identify delin

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