Analysis and detoxification in one step

Many industrial and agriculture processes use chemicals that can be harmful for workers and the ecosystems where they accumulate. Researchers have now developed a bioinspired method to detect and detoxify these chemicals in only one step. A combination of two natural enzymatic reactions convert harmful chloro- and nitrophenols into the substance that causes the characteristic glowing of fireflies: luciferin.

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