Concerned about plastics in the environment? In you?
Today is the story of how two scientists embarked on a journey to bind plastics so our body excretes them instead of absorbing them.
Drs. Nicholas Monsul (Yale University & The Johns Hopkins Hospital) and Dr Eva Berkes (Scripts Inst.) are physician-scientists and co-founders of Quorum Innovations, a biotechnology company working with bacteria to achieve extraordinary results. They have an innovative biofilm, postbiotic technology that binds 98% microplastics in the digestive tract with human trial results now live and a recently published paper.
This is the first publication to demonstrate a technology capable of binding plastics to a bacterium in the digestive tract, in humans. The paper is currently under review in the Journal “Frontiers of Microbiology”.
Very exciting stuff and I can’t wait for you to dive into the show.
Alexx Stuart
Your Host
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.11.724280v1
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