which is a host enzyme to add sugars to proteins. By identifying ERMANI as the target that slows the spread of HIV-1
In an initial set of experiments reminiscent of a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich technique, researchers took stem cells from the colons of babies undergoing intestinal surgeries and from mice,
affirmed the ability of the 3-D intestine to spur the growth of new tissue not only in lab dishes,
Given the opportunity to drink fifty bottles of wine or eat one tomato, which would you choose?
the compound found in wine which has been reported to extend lifespan in animal studies, and Genistein, the compound found in soybean which has been suggested to play a role in prevention of steroid-hormone related cancers, particularly breast cancer.
one tomato can produce the same quantity of Resveratrol as exists in 50 bottles of red wine.
One tomato has produced also the amount of Genistein found in 2. 5kg of tofu. Drs Zhang and Butelli have been studying the effect of a protein called Atmyb12
and juiced and the valuable compounds can be extracted from the juice. The tomatoes themselves could potentially become the source of increased nutritional or medicinal benefit.
as well as diet and health research.""Dr. Yang Zhang, said:""Medicinal plants with high value are often difficult to grow
'mini tumors'in a culture dish,"explains the study's corresponding author Senthil Muthuswamy, Phd, Director of the Cell biology Program in the Cancer Research Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical center
Instead, the priority was to protect the lean green imageof the country produce, according to the secretary for rural affairs, food and environment.
Yet this inconvenient truth on G. M. O. s that theye as safe as conventionally cultivated food is ignored
at the prime of lifewhich he linked to G. M. O. foods. I have witnessed the effects of such propaganda myself.
Following Europe lead, no country in Sub-saharan africa except South africa currently permits the cultivation of G. M. O. food crops.
Thanks to Europe Coalition of the Ignorant, we are witnessing a historic injustice perpetrated by the well fed on the food insecure.
and eventually scored a deal with the influential music label Def Jam Records. It wasn't a smooth ride to the top, though.
and acquired the Armand de Brignac champagne company. Andreas Rentz/Getty Imagesjay Z's champagne company specialises in giant bottles.
Jay z's biggest business, though, is Roc Nation, his entertainment company started in 2008. It helps organise live shows,
and Daft punk drinking champagne together. Showbiz 411 writer Roger Friedman wrote that the meeting was ively,
as well as a bar serving Jay z's favorite $49 D'USSE cognac, and a giant screen above the stage that displayed tweets from fans of the musicians who had been promoting the event.
and Def Jam CEO Steve Bartels. Musicians were instructed to line up in alphabetical order before walking on stage.
which eating even tiny amounts of gluten comprised of numerous, complex proteins that gives dough its elasticity
and some flavour to baked goods can damage the small intestine. The only known treatment for celiac disease is a gluten free diet free of any foods that contain wheat, rye, and barley."
"If you know you are producing a crop that is not tolerated well by people, then it's the right thing to do,
"said the project's lead researcher, Chris Miller, senior director of research for Engrain, a Kansas company that makes products to enhance the nutrition
and appearance of products made by the milling and cereal industry. Though celiac disease is four to five times more common now than 50 years ago,
But the gluten free food business has skyrocketed in the last five years driven in part by non-celiac sufferers who believe they are intolerant to gluten
Sales of gluten free snacks, crackers, pasta, bread and other products reached $973 million in the U s. in 2014, up from $810 million the previous year,
with the properties of wheat that make the bread nice and fluffy, "she said.""The idea of having a variety of wheat that they could eat that has those wonderful wheat-like properties would certainly be very interesting for them
"Now these microorganisms are in a constant competition for nutrients and space and it's
Amblyotech will be seeking clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in the United states to market this therapy.
In the dome, the crew will share a kitchen, a dining space, an exercise area, an office and a lab on the first floor.
They enjoyed their"first dinner in simulated space.""On the menu? Cheese and turkey quesadillas,
and peas and corn. The food was dehydrated previously, tweeted Gifford. They watched their"first Martian sunset."
"And, survived until morning. Only 364 more days to go t
#Giant sea scorpion may have been Earth's 1st big predator Earth's first big predatory monster was a weird water bug as big as Tom cruise, newly found fossils show.
Aimbetov, the third ethnic Kazakh in space, said he was taking dried mare's milk and traditional Kazakh cheese to orbit.
Practised with virual reality In previous research by other scientists, a brain-computer interface has been used to allow paralyzed patients to grasp a cup of coffee with a robotic arm
and raise the beverage to their mouths. The latest study, which began about five years after Fritz became paralyzed, involved months of mental training in
meeting rising demand for power, transport and other uses in a way that is economically sustainable and safeguards livelihoods. he report identifies four key modern technologies as having the ighest deployment potentialsfor Africa modern biomass for cooking
A shift to biomass-based cooking would reduce the use of traditional cook stoves by more than 60,
%and save the continent between $20 to $30 billion annually by 2030 through the reduction of health complications commonly caused by current cooking methods,
Researchers have discovered that during the first months of pregnancy the mother's body secretes nutrients that have been dubbed'womb milk'for the embryo.
and supply nutrients from the mother's blood supply. Instead, researchers at the University of Manchester, have found that glands in the lining of the uterus produce a sugary substance known as glycogen and fragments of sugary protein.
so up to this time the tiny embryo is nurtured by these secretions. e do not know yet how the mother's diet influences the uterine secretions during pregnancy. y other research has shown that there is a"code
"which influences attachment of the embryo to the mother's womb. his code is built up of sugars on the surface of cells of the embryo and the uterus;
added that changes in a mother's diet or other factors such as smoking could also impact the build up of these materials in the womb lining.
After about 11 weeks the levels of these secretions start to fade away around the time that the embryo is big enough to accept nutrients via the umbilical cord.
'The findings could also help scientists develop ways of improving fertility treatments like IVF by ensuing an embryo gets the nutrients it needs during the early weeks of development.
'Our understanding has been revolutionised over the past decade by the discovery that nutrients are supplied by these glands in the uterus lining during the first trimester the so-called"uterine milk".
and near soda lakes like those near Wadi Natrun in Egypt, the researchers mix the bio material into the concrete as it is made.
which are the support cells of the brain providing it with structure and nutrients, multiplied and grew to replace a similar type of cell in the brains of the mice.
#Human brain grown in a LAB that could help Alzheimer's research A near-complete human brain comparable with that of a five-week-old foetus has been grown in a laboratory dish.
and autism, in a dish. With the addition of a blood circulation, which is currently lacking,
#Scientists brew cannabis chemical THC for better drugs for cancer sufferers An active ingredient typically found in cannabis has been engineered genetically in the lab for the first time.
and is used to make bread rise and produce in beer. Researchers at the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany and firm Hyasynth Bio have now found a way to genetically engineer a strain of this bacteria to produce THC.
The yeast needs to be placed in just the right conditions in order for them to make THC-and even then
'but there's bigger potential there than just making a beer. The newly engineered yeast could
and delivers more juice, resulting in speedier charges. Ultimately, Perry says, consumers will be the real winners,
So what's the secret sauce behind this new coating? Well, it's dotted with microcapsules that contain an adhesive-like liquid,
ingredients and packaging, says Ken Powell, chairman and CEO of General mills. o reduce emission levels,
General mills made a commitment to sustainably source 100 percent of its 10 priority ingredients by 2020.
These ingredients represent 50 percent of the company total raw material purchases and have a significant impact on its total environmental footprint.
is derived from heated sucrose, a form of sugar. It has a highly porous structure that is super hydrophobic,
which are complex structures of monosaccharide sugars linked together and attached to virtually all secreted proteins.
#Scientists produce beneficial natural compounds in tomato--industrial scale up potential Given the opportunity to drink fifty bottles of wine
the compound found in wine which has been reported to extend lifespan in animal studies, and Genistein, the compound found in soybean which has been suggested to play a role in prevention of steroid-hormone related cancers, particularly breast cancer.
one tomato can produce the same quantity of Resveratrol as exists in 50 bottles of red wine.
One tomato has produced also the amount of Genistein found in 2. 5kg of tofu. Drs Zhang and Butelli have been studying the effect of a protein called Atmyb12
and juiced and the valuable compounds can be extracted from the juice. The tomatoes themselves could potentially become the source of increased nutritional or medicinal benefit.
as well as diet and health research.""Dr. Yang Zhang, said:""Medicinal plants with high value are often difficult to grow
The most common approach is to make a sandwich of a"primary"antibody specific for a certain protein on a cell
or parabolic mirrors are used in a host of technical applications ranging from satellite dishes to laser resonators,
The ratio of the ingredients can be adjusted to control the liquid's properties, allowing the carrier solvent to be mixed easily into a conventional conductive water-based ink to significantly reduce the resistance.
which are complex structures of monosaccharide sugars linked together and attached to virtually all secreted proteins.
"The researchers discovered that heat-treating graphene oxide and small amounts of cobalt salts in a gaseous environment forced individual cobalt atoms to bind to the material.
Like Sugar in Coffee Copper while a relatively cheap metal, is not nearly as catalytically powerful as platinum, noted Professor of Chemistry Charles Sykes, Ph d.,one of the senior authors on the paper."
"We were excited to find that the platinum metal dissolved in copper, just like sugar in hot coffee, all the way down to single atoms.
#'Magic'plant discovery could lead to growing food in space QUT scientists have discovered the gene that will open the door for space-based food production.
The spill has turned the Animas River into a mustard-coloured pollution zone with the contaminated leak said to contain heavy metals like arsenic, mercury and lead,
One of the major stumbling blocks in tissue engineering is supplying artificial tissue with nutrients, and scientists around the world have been working for years on trying to create artificial blood vessels.
and bio-inks filled with growth factors and nutrients. When combined with other materials, the 3d bioprinter creates layered cell structures that can be cultivated to form tissues with physiological functions. he achievement here in producing a 3d blood vessel bioprinter is not just that we can print a blood vessel,
delivering up to 1000 mg of the active ingredient. Spritam (levetiracetam) is not actually a new molecule.
Spritam is a single active ingredient but 3d printing could make it possible for medications to be made custom for patients,
Rather than taking multiple different pills with a few hundred milligrams of active ingredients, the pharmacy of the future could simply 3d print a single pill that has all those drugs in a single dose.
The hydrated salts lower the freezing point of the liquid brine, the same way salt helps melt snow and ice on our roads after a blizzard.
e found the hydrated salts only when the seasonal features were widest, which suggests that either the dark streaks themselves or a process that forms them is the source of the hydration,
the detection of hydrated salts on these slopes means that water plays a vital role in the formation of these streaks. uring the announcement today,
The proof-of-concept device looks a bit like a thick, plastic, pie-shaped honeycomb split into dozens of slices.
what slice of the pie it passed over. After being picked up by a microphone on the other side,
The supplement sector was one of 12 key priorities of the single-market project with plans to harmonise safety standards, health claim substantiation and upper levels for vitamins and minerals and potentially other nutrients.
not just for the food or nutritional products but overall for ASEAN. There is already a plan.
The EU has some of the strictest food regulations in the world, meaning export from the EU to Asia had until now been easier than Asia to the EU. In the past Asian countries had seen this as a kind of on-tariff barrieragainst them essentially blocking access with tough safety assessments
#Food emulsifiers linked to gut bacteria changes and obesity While it has been suggested long that gut microbiota disturbances are involved in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), obesity and metabolic syndrome,
sugar and calories provided by ice-cream are far more likely to contribute to weight gain that trivial amounts of these additives.#
#Indeed, the nutrition and diet expert added that the very high intake values used in the mouse study mean that it bears no impact for humans,
as we onlt consume tiny amounts of any emulsifier ingredients in the foods we eat.#
"A mouse weighs about 20g and drinks about 5 ml water a day, so an intake of 1%of these additives corresponds to an intake of 50mg/d or 2500 mg/kg.""
"Food interacts intimately with the microbiota so we considered what modern additions to the food supply might possibly make gut bacteria more pro-inflammatory."
#Rather, our findings reinforce the concept suggested by earlier work that low-grade inflammation resulting from an altered microbiota can be an underlying cause of excess eating."
10.1038/nature14232#Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome#Authors: Benoit Chassaing, et a e
#Scientists create food powder from waste, increasing shelf life from two weeks to two years Kent Ngo, Vita Jarolimkova,
Gerald Perry Marin, came up with the idea at the Thought for Food Challenge in Lisbon,
or as a topping for baked goods. opo is the only freeze drying facility aiming to work solely with produce that would otherwise be discarded
said Ngo. ur mission is feed to 9 billion people by saving the 40%from the food we produce from being wasted through freeze drying
and almost expired food from retailers and producers into food powder, increasing its shelf life from around two weeks to two years. tudents Marin
and Jarolimkova are studying the Erasmus Mundus Masters program Food Innovation and Product Design, at Lund University and Ngo studies a masters of Mechanical engineering and Industrial Design.
and producers throwing away a lot of food due to strict regulations on the expiration date, it makes more business sense for them to sell their fresh produce having only one day left to Fopo.
and pulverizer to turn food into powder. It will be placed in nearby warehouse facilities, and Fopo will then sell the powder back to retailers with an extended shelf life. urrently studying Masters in Food Innovation and Product Design,
we are very much aware of the problems about food waste, said Jarolimkova. he paradox is that the world is producing a lot of food that is more than enough to feed the population,
but people are still hungry. This made us rethink how we can make use of the food we have
and how to save it through modern technology. ood preservation was done in the past, from fermentation, to Asian spices,
is breaking down the food further. And that is how Fopo was born. ood companies can buy Fopo as an ingredient to be incorporated into a product or for use in traditional and innovative cooking methods.
The students see the powder as a source of nutrition derived from natural sources without additives,
as compared to processed food. owadays, freeze dried fruits and vegetables are produced as premium snacks, but we aim to use low priced produce and modern technology
which reduces the processing price per kg to produce an affordable range of nutritional food powders,
added Jarolimkova. emoving water and storing the produce as powder will allow for maximum utilization of space during transport and storage as well as significantly prolonged shelf life.
Furthermore, we envision the powder to be used in culinary areas as a fruit and vegetable replacement in humanitarian aids, food for space missions, molecular gastronomy,
and also as a cartridge for 3d printing. opo was a joint award winner at the Thought for Food Challenge in Lisbon,
Alongside its'zero water'project at Modesto, Nestlé is ploughing money into technology to reduce the amount of water it uses at its water bottling plants and food and pet care product manufacturing facilties in California.
It has identified potential annual water savings of more than 26m gallons at its Bakersfield and Tulare Dreyer's ice cream plants.
including the sugar in maize and sugarcane. Fermentation turns the sugar into lactic acid which in turn is a building block for polylactic acid.
According to co-author Professor Bert Sels of hape-selective zeolite catalysis for bioplastics productionthe production process for PLA is expensive because of the intermediary steps."
#New half-fat soft cheese solution Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a whey protein solution that enables dairies to produce low-fat soft ripened cheeses that taste as good as the full-fat versions.
Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a whey protein solution that enables dairies to produce low-fat soft ripened cheeses that taste as good as the full-fat versions.
Nutrilac Softcheese makes it possible to reduce fat in soft ripened cheese by 50 percent with no loss of creaminess.
It is supplied as a white powder that is simply added to the cheese milk prior to the pasteurisation stage.
Claus Andersen, category manager at Arla Foods Ingredients, says, f all the major dairy categories, cheese is among the least developed
in the sense that it very difficult to produce low-fat cheeses that make the grade in terms of taste and texture.
Taking some of the fat out of the cheese has a major impact on quality, principally because it makes the product matrix too hard.
This means the majority of low fat cheeses compare poorly with their full-fat counterparts. heese-makers have tried traditionally to address this with fat substitutes such as fibres,
and eating quality has suffered. In addition, they require declaration on labelling, which is undesirable in a category where the only ingredients listed are usually milk, salt, rennet and culture.
Whey protein, however, behaves in cheese in a similar manner to fat, ensuring the product retains its creamy texture and taste.
Arla Foods Ingredients asked an independent laboratory to run tests to assess the quality of each cheese in terms of taste, texture and appearance.
In all cases, the Brie made with Nutrilac Softcheese outperformed the reference cheese. educing the level of fat and increasing the amount of whey protein in a soft ripened cheese can result in the product that has eluded cheese-makers until now:
a delicious low-fat cheese indistinguishable from its full-fat equivalent. At last, high-quality reduced fat soft ripened cheese is within reach
and so is the potential for increased sales in this underdeveloped sub-category of the dairy market,
Mr Andersen says n
#Investment in robotics could avoid mistakes There an old saying that you can make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
labelling, injury, sanitation and wasted raw ingredients. Increasing automation in the workplace can significantly help reduce many of these issues, with the newest generation of technologies such as lightweight robots capable of improving processes for food manufacturers.
Microbial contamination is the leading cause of food product recall accounting for around 35 per cent of all instances in New zealand.
with many being built specifically for food handling. Another pricey mistake for many food producers are labelling mistakes.
Between 2002 and 2011,33 per cent of all food recalls in ANZ were due to errors in labelling,
In the United states as many as 65 percent of all food factory workers had experienced injury while working on the job.
The electrolyte is essentially a salt that is liquid at room temperature so it is safe, according to Stanford graduate student and co-lead author Ming Gong.
and attention to ongoing quantifiable personal data, such as fitness, diet, and sleep-quality. Imagine a diabetics biochip detecting blood glucose levels within personalized parameters,
said Cook, looking down occasionally at an ipad on his lap. Added Rometty: oday is about re-imagining life for what is the largest generation that has been in human history.
As Cook noted, the U s. health care market is fragmented. No insurance company here has the reach that Japan Post does.
It had 20 years of fresh fruit and berry tracking experience. Another customer told them that Colorado was taking bids on supply chain tracking for marijuana
Theye even been approached by other producers of wine, hops and biofuel to join. Take that Chicago Board of Trade.
The result is a metabolic core that takes CO2 out of the atmosphere and converts it into sugar.
Gonzalez-Esquer says. t comparable to making coffee. Rather than getting an oven to roast the coffee beans,
When treated with a chemical cocktail, they mature into structures that resemble miniature kidneys. These organoids contain tubules,
CLINICAL TRIALS IN A DISH hese genetically engineered mini-kidneys Freedman says, ave taught us that human disease boils down to simple components that can be re-created in a petri dish.
Using sugar, silicone, and a 3d printer, bioengineers and surgeons have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels.
and nutrients to all cells in an artificial organ or tissue implant that takes days or weeks to grow in the lab prior to surgery.
SUGAR AGESBIOENGINEERING graduate student Samantha Paulsen and research technician Anderson Ta worked together to develop a proof-of-concept construct small silicone gel about the size of a small candy gummy bearsing 3d printing.
It a technique pioneered by Miller in 2012nd inspired by the intricate sugar glass cages crafted by pastry chefs to garnish desserts.
Using an open-source 3d printer that lays down individual filaments of sugar glass one layer at a time
Once the sugar hardened, they placed it in a mold and poured in silicone gel. After the gel cured, Miller team dissolved the sugar,
leaving behind a network of small channels in the silicone. hey don yet look like the blood vessels found in organs,
#These serotonin neurons were built in a dish Serotonin, a neurotransmitter involved in regulating mood and mental states, has been linked to numerous neurological
#Engineered yeast turns sugar into painkiller Scientists have reprogrammed the genetic machinery of baker yeast so that the fast-growing cells can convert sugar into hydrocodone in just three to five days.
The advance could lead to a faster and potentially cheaper way to make other types of plant-based medicine.
or brewed into teas, or later refined into pills using chemical processes to extract and concentrate their active ingredients.
Smolke team is modernizing the process by inserting precisely engineered snippets of DNA into cells, such as yeast,
These genes equipped the yeast to produce all the enzymes necessary for the cells to convert sugar into hydrocodone
Many plants, including opium poppies, produce (S)- reticuline, a molecule that is a precursor to active ingredients with medicinal properties.
In addition to bioengineering yeast to convert sugar into hydrocodone, the team developed a second strain that can process sugar into thebaine,
cholera (Vibrio cholera), septicemia or gastroenteritis from eating infected raw oysters (Vibrio vulnificus) and gastric illnesses that threaten people with weakened immune systems (Aeromonas hydrophila.
such as the preparation of foods, dietary supplements, therapeutics, and chemical materials. The ability to precisely tune enzymatic reactions with small biomolecules holds enormous potential for industrial manufacturing, analytical science,
"In this paper, we demonstrated their efficacy on sugars, but one can envision applications of this concept with enzymes acting on other types of molecules such as lipids
looking to design a monobody that would cause the enzyme to only act on small sugar chains.
"We were able to design one monobody that prevents ß-Gal from using certain sugars as starting material
"This is an extraordinary finding that paves the way for targeting sugar molecules in pediatric and adulthood human cancer,
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