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Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record

(www.cam.ac.uk)

The speculation about future evolution of bacteria that can digest plastic by using similar enzymes was thought provoking. The actual paper is open access as well and the 'extended pdf' has introductory material that I found interesting.
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It's interesting what how different types of collagen are influenced, because this might lead to solutions for different collagen disrupting deceases in the human body.
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