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This popular fermented food may help flush nanoplastics from the body - ScienceDaily

This popular fermented food may help flush nanoplastics from the body - ScienceDaily

A kimchi-derived bacterium can bind to nanoplastics under gut-like conditions and may help carry them out of the body. In mice, the probiotic more than doubled the amount of nanoplastics detected in feces, pointing to a surprising potential use for microbes f…

The World Institute of Kimchi (President: Hae Choon Chang), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, announced that a lactic acid bacterium isolated from kimchi c… [+2610 chars]

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