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Published online 2 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021001-3
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Green tan alley
Saliva enzymes clean up leather processing.
Scientists in India are using biological catalysts like those in saliva to turn animal hide into leather. Their approach could be only half as polluting as chemical tanning techniques1.
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