Professor Sang Yup Lee at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) led the team that engineered E. coli to produce PLA. They developed a one-stage process which produces polylactic acid and it’s copolymers through direct fermentation. This will make renewable production of PLA cheaper and more commercially viable.

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