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Engineered yeast turns plastic bottles and corn stalks into vanilla cookies

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Researchers turned plastic bottles and corn stalks into vanilla cookies via engineered yeast, pending approval to taste, while one CRISPR infusion silencing ANGPTL3 cut LDL cholesterol 53% at one year with no side effects.

Reported metric: -53% LDL

Reporting date: 2026-08-31 (not necessarily the event date)

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Engineered yeast turns plastic bottles and corn stalks into vanilla cookies
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Reporting date: 2026-08-31
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-31-bottles-and-corn-stalks-into-vanilla-cookies
Claim: Researchers turned plastic bottles and corn stalks into vanilla cookies via engineered yeast, pending approval to taste, while one CRISPR infusion silencing ANGPTL3 cut LDL cholesterol 53% at one year with no side effects.
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- Welcome to August 31, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-31-2026
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