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The plastic-eating worms

Interview with Dr. Federica Bertocchini, Biomedicine Institute of Cantabria You’ve recently discovered an astonishing “talent” of the Galleria Mellonella larvae. Can you tell us more about? With my collaborators Paolo Bombelli and Chris Howe, at the University of Cambridge, UK, we discovered that the wax worm can bio-degrade polyethylene, the plastic of the garbage bags […]

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Is insects breeding economically convenient?

Recent studies suggest that the request of animal food will increase by 70-80% until 2050 (FAO 2013). Moreover climate change will have a negative impact in agriculture, livestock breeding and fishing.  All this will bring a growing competition for natural resources which will become more and more limited in the next years. So it’s necessary a […]

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