It’s one of the world’s most common bacteria creating one of the world’s most commonly used painkillers, and the same technique could be used to produce a trove of different drugs, the researchers say. It has an added bonus, too: it can reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.

Researchers have found a sustainable method of producing paracetamol by using E coli bacteria to transform plastic waste.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have successfully used bacteria to convert plastic waste into paracetamol, offering a promising new approach to