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British biotech uses microbes for nature-inspired dyes

29/11/2019

British biotech Colorfix is working on a method of textile dyeing that uses microorganisms to sustainably recreate the bright colours of butterflies and birds.  Colorfix does this by harvesting a colour gene in nature and inserting it into a bacterial cell, tricking the cell into filling up with the colour and duplicating, according to Reuters....

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