A research team from the University of Greifswald and Helmholtz-Zentrum-Berlin (HZB) has solved the molecular structure of the important enzyme MHETase at BESSY II. MHETase was discovered in... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Is It an Environmental Boon or Bane? More than 2.5 billion plastic bottles—partially made from plants—are already in use around the world in a bid to replace petroleum as... Read more
Bottled water might seem like a very innocuous, ecologically-friendly beverage, but it does have its dark side – it has been estimated that 1.5 million barrels of oil are used annually for t... Read more