In other words, this biodegradable polymer material, just a few atoms in size, can target and kill harmful microbes.

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There's that shirt made from a biodegradable polymer.

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Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at MIT, is a founder of the budding field of tissue engineering--of restoring, maintaining and improving tissue by growing it, in vitro, on a biodegradable polymer (plastic) scaffold.

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T, are both biodegradable, the polymer itself is not.

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