Engineering Success
Our iterative design process and laboratory cycles.
01
Initial Enzyme Scaffold Design
Design
Scaffolds make enzymes more efficient at breaking down PET plastic.
Build
We really like yeast.
Test
We put plastic into bioreactors and the enzymes broke it down for us.
Learn
The enzymes are not a limitless resource.
02
Optimizing the process
Based on Cycle 1, various things went wrong, but (after breaking down into tears for a few hours) we soldiered on.