The world produces over 400 million tonnes of plastic each year, and as they degrade, it breaks down into microplastics that can infiltrate our bodies.
These microplastics damage cells and cause cancer-associated mechanisms.
To combat this, we are engineering plastic-degrading enzymes or PETases.
However, PETases currently in industry have a major limitation...
...the current enzymes only work under…
That's why our team has developed the LOGAN index: a planetary sequence search that discovers novel plastic-degrading enzymes.
Before, the industry was using an enzyme dataset of roughly 200.
With RNAlab, our advisory lab, our team uncovered 215.7 million high-quality plastic‑degrading enzymes.
A 1,000,000‑fold increase from the enzyme landscape previously known.
