Natural fibres: New yeast strains could turn plant waste into fabrics

Chemical engineering PhD candidate Kayla Nemr and Professor Krishna Mahadevan grow yeast in a bioreactor. Along with their collaborators, they are using these organisms to transform bark, leaves and stems into the chemical building blocks of materials such as nylon. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

U of T Engineering researchers are developing bio-based commodity chemicals, including nylon precursors

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