Local High School Students Search for Ways to Degrade Forever Chemicals
September 12, 2024
September 12, 2024
PASADENA, California, Sept. 12 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
This summer, the PFAS Annihilators came to play! Housed in the lab of Matt Thomson, an assistant professor of computational biology and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, this group of seven local high school students took on an ambitious project in synthetic biology: Finding proteins that may be able to degrade per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the so-called f . . .
This summer, the PFAS Annihilators came to play! Housed in the lab of Matt Thomson, an assistant professor of computational biology and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, this group of seven local high school students took on an ambitious project in synthetic biology: Finding proteins that may be able to degrade per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the so-called f . . .