No-plastic B.A.R.B.I.E.: project offers an innovative solution to remove microplastics in domestic filters

Named after the world’s most famous doll, CNPEM team goes to Paris for an international synthetic biology competition Combining Barbie and microplastics is probably not the first thing to comes to mind as the solution to an environmental problem. But the doll’s name is actually an abbreviation for an ecologically correct and revolutionary filter that…