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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago

The team tested how the spheres degraded in boiling water; after two hours more than 94 percent of the polymer had broken down into molecules related to sugars and amino acids.

This doesn't really sound like the conditions we are going to need them to break down in...