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Two scientists discuss their innovative technology to help the body excrete microplastics.

Concerned about plastics in the environment? In you?  Today is the story of how two scientists embarked on a journey to bind plastics so our body excretes them instead of absorbing them.  Drs. Nicholas Monsul (Yale University & The Johns Hopkins Hospital) and Dr Eva Berkes (Scripts Inst.) are physician-scientists and co-founders of Quorum Innovations, a biotechnology company working with bacteria to achieve extraordinary results. They have an innovative biofilm, postbiotic technology that binds 98% microplastics in the digestive tract with human trial results now live and a recently published paper. This is the first publication to demonstrate a technology capable of binding plastics to a bacterium in the digestive tract, in humans. The paper is currently under review in the Journal “Frontiers of Microbiology”.  Very exciting stuff and I can’t wait for you to dive into the show.  Alexx Stuart Your Host https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.11.724280v1   Want to learn more about this week’s guest?  Website: quourminnovations.com   and Qi601.com   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qi601_   Facebook…

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Host: Alexx Stuart

Guests: Dr. Eva Berkes, Dr. Nicholas Monsul

Topics covered

• nanoplastics
• biotechnology
• microplastics
• health
• environment
• digestive health

Keywords

• nanoplastics
• microplastics
• biotechnology
• Quorum Innovations
• digestive tract
• postbiotic technology
• human trials

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Organizations: Quorum Innovations, Yale University, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Scripts Inst., Frontiers of Microbiology

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