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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Amazon fungi found that eat polyurethane, even without oxygen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now polyurethane has been considered non-biodegradable, but a group of students from Yale University in the US has found fungi that will not only eat and digest it, they will do so even in the absence of oxygen.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-02-amazon-fungi-polyurethane-oxygen.html#jCp
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