Plastic Soup: Mmm, Mmm Good!.

• Author: Carberry, Sean
• Position: IN BRIEF

* Dr. Kerri Dugan, DARPA's biological technologies program office director, said at the CBRN conference that the agency is thinking of ways to apply biology to non-biological problems.

For example, the supply chain issue. What if the plastic items that soldiers haul around like water bottles and the packaging that contains meals-ready-to-eat could be altered using synthetic biology?

"We have envisioned a program where they can take things they're going to dispose...