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Tackling PCB Pollution in Prague by My Science Programme for Young Journalists is a document available to read on EtoBox.

PCBs are toxic man-made pollutants that were banned in the 1970s but persist in the environment. Scientists are researching methods to detect and remove PCBs. Kamila Kalachova developed a fast method to detect PCBs and other contaminants in fish. Jan Rezek studies plants and microbes that can degrade PCBs in soil through phytoremediation. The goal is to identify genes that degrade PCBs and use them to create transgenic plants to clean contaminated sites, working with microbes. However, GM plants require reg

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My Science Programme for Young Journalists

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