Tag: water
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Finding NEMO in the Sustainable Development Goals
In my previous article, synthetic biology emerged as an extremely powerful tool that can help tackle some of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. As a member of the 2020 University of Edinburgh iGEM team, I would like to exemplify how this can be done in practice using our project. iGEM is an independent, non-profit…
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Shrimp with cocaine: Surprising pollution in Suffolk waterways
Illicit drugs in their powdered form can end up in all sorts of strange places. For one, we have all heard that banknotes contain traces of cocaine, which was one reason the UK introduced plastic bank notes in 2016. However, according to a recent study from King’s College London in collaboration with the University of…