#Inkjet printers could produce paper sensors that identify dangerous food and water contaminants Sensors that identify infectious disease
and scientists to inspect food or environments for toxins. Brennan notes, however, that they cannot currently test drinking water
"The electrolyte is basically a salt that's liquid at room temperature, so it's very safe,
"For the first time we have the ability to go from the whole body down to how the cells are getting their nutrition
The newly released Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson includes 65 recipes, developed with the help of
what's billed as"the world#s first cognitive cooking system, "is the result of a three-year collaboration between IBM Research and chefs at the Institute of culinary education (ICE).
Starting out as a food truck, it went on to become an app, and on Tuesday it became a published"author."
"IBM says that Cognitive Cooking is not only a compendium of recipes, but also discusses the evolution of Chef Watson.
The dishes were produced by Watson's ability to extract facts from millions of pages of literature and draw relationships between them.
This allows it to produce a database of recipes, dish types, cooking styles, human psychology,
and from that, create new dishes. Central to this is the ability of the system to deal with food pairings.
This is an offshoot of the chemistry of taste as discovered by molecular gastronomy. Instead of dealing with dishes at an ingredient level
Watson looks at the actual chemicals that control taste and how one food pairs with another.
For example, a main taste chemical of tomatoes is shared with strawberries, so it's entirely possible to make bruschetta with strawberries.
By analyzing these pairings, Chef Watson came up with things like plum pancetta cider. Other recipes include Spanish Almond crescent, Creole Shrimp-Lamb Dumplings, Italian-Pumpkin Cheesecake,
and Hoof-and-Honey Ale. According to IBM, what works with food also works with other things, like creating new pharmaceuticals and cancer-fighting proteins.
Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson retails for US$30. The video below discusses Chef Watson. Source:
#ARC vibrating pen steadies the ship for people with Parkinson's disease The development of tight, cramped cursive as a result of degenerating motor control is a common symptom of Parkinson's disease.
Known as micrographia, this condition can often lead people to put down their pens forever, but a team of British engineers say there might yet be hope for sufferer's of this dispiriting ailment.
making it easier to feed themselves without spilling food. Dopa says the development of the ARC pen is ongoing
#Astronauts chow down on space harvest for the first time The International space station (ISS) was the scene of an historic lunch this week with the crew members of Expedition 44 dining on the first meal harvested in space.
The dish, which consisted on leaves of"Outredgeous"red romaine lettuce grown in NASA's"Veggie"zero gravity greenhouse,
The meal, which was eaten on Monday by US astronauts Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, was a very informal affair.
It isn't possible to carry enough food, water, and air to make manned voyages lasting months or years feasible with current rocket technology.
and food for the crew. In addition, fresh foods can improve nutrition by providing vitamins and antioxidants.
According to NASA, crew morale is another factor in the experiment. Deep space missions, such as a mission to Mars, will mean small crews working in close confinement with very little to do for long periods of time a prime recipe for disaster.
such as gardening, combined with the presence of growing plants and periodic fresh food can be a surprisingly effective morale boost
One reason the portions for Monday's meal were so small is that half of the tiny crop
The video below shows the consumption of the historic salad l
#Temperature-controlled hydrogel can walk Scientists have developed a new hydrogel that stretches and contracts just like an artificial muscle.
#Beerbots demonstrate robotic collaboration by serving drinks in a makeshift bar Staffing bars and restaurants with machines sure sounds convenient,
showcasing a team of three robots that work together to deliver beer, suggesting the technology responsible could translate to cooperative robotic systems for not only bars and restaurants,
The humans would push a button on the robot to request a drink, prompting the robot to return to the"bar"where a PR2 robot was waiting to dispense cans of beer MIT's robotic bartending service in action.
The biggest problem facing the team at MIT's Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) was finding a way for robots to cope with the uncertainties of the human world,
while daydreaming about dinner, the robots would be able to complete basic tasks without sweating on every single step.
and one to get the beverage without having to walk them through every move in the process,
The humans would push a button on the robot to request a drink, prompting the robot to return to the"bar"where a PR2 robot was waiting to fill the order.
page Drinking Paper, to get the book into production and distribution. Every page of the book is made up of two filters, each one
natural peristaltic action (the"squeezing"motion of muscles that ordinarily move food down the GI) will push it into the lower GI TRACT.
the researchers combined antibacterial ammonium salts with standard dental resins. The resultant mixture was hardened then using ultraviolet light and put inside a 3d printer to print samples of replacement teeth.
The positive charge on the ammonium salts gives the resin its bacteria-killing property, disrupting negatively charged bacterial membranes and causing them to burst and die.
Cancer cells must find nutrients to grow. Now, researchers at Oxford university in the UK have discovered the method used by cells to locate those food supplies.
They identified a protein called PAT4 as the main tool cancer cells use to find nutrients in blood,
which enables them to make better use of available nutrients than the cells around them including healthy tissue,
but that in the know-how, that a big part of the secret sauce, said Hoffman. Innovus 600-kilowatt units are built to be stacked up to the megawatt scale,
the technology might be able to make a beer belly look flatter. Alternatively, a face mask could hide pimples and wrinkles from view."
alcohol use, high cholesterol, kidney disease, low physical activity, diets low in fruits and vegetables and drug use.
The main risk factors leading to chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, obesity, smoking and heavy alcohol consumption might result from family problems, social inequality or poverty, beliefs or customs of particular subcultures
#Douxmatok develops new technology that makes sugar twice as sweet, so you eat half as much A new technology in the food industry makes ordinary sugar twice as sweeto food tastes exactly the same with half the calories,
and without the controversy of artificial sweeteners. By coating tiny food safe particles with natural sugar like sucrose or glucose, the technology can trick the sweetness receptors on your tongue into thinking youe eating a full serving.
The startup behind the idea compares it to drug delivery in pharmaceuticals. rug delivery allows you to take less of an active material
But you still use sugar. Depending on the food, the technology cuts sugar by 25%to 55%.
%That means it also cheaper than a normal recipe. f the coated particle were the same sweetness as sugar,
it would be more expensive, obviously, he says. ut what we sell is sweetness equivalence.
If I twice as sweet as sugar you need only half as much in order to have the same sweet effect.
The sugar-carrying particle is already a commonly used food additive, so it doesn require new safety testing.
Theye developed a version that can be used in things like candy or cake and another that could cut back sugar in soda,
all while keeping the exact flavor of the originalnd keeping people happier while theye losing weight or reducing their risk or diabetes or heart disease. ealth is not only a physical condition,
We were provenbsolutely provens identical in sensory profile to sugars. But whilst we offer people what makes them happy mentally,
proteins found on the surface of immune cells that recognise a type of sugar called sialic acid. hese receptors help the immune system distinguish between self and non-self
These findings are surprising ince it had not been reported previously that engaging this siglec receptor with nanoparticles displaying the glycan (sugar) ligand would have such profound effects on inflammation,
developing special molecules that can trick the BBB into think that they should be let through by exploiting the mechanism that let nutrients into the brain.
companies looking to increase the productivity of their staff may not have stretched much further than a modest increase to the Christmas bonus pot or the installation of a new coffee machine.
and produce sugar or biofuels when exposed to the sun. Oxman said, uch functions will in the near future augment the wearer by scanning our skins,
experts place the price blame on aging production facilities, shortages of ingredients and, most importantly, competition.
#Scientists Create LEDS From Food, Beverage Waste Most Christmas lights, DVD players, televisions and flashlights have one thing in common:
Two University of Utah researchers have now found a way to create LEDS from food and beverage waste.
In addition to utilizing food and beverage waste that would otherwise decompose and be of no use,
this development can also reduce potentially harmful waste from LEDS generally made from toxic elements.
and Professor Michael Free, over the past year and a half, have turned successfully food waste such as discarded pieces of tortilla into CDS,
the researchers used soft drinks and pieces of bread and tortilla. The food and beverage waste were placed each in a solvent and heated both directly and indirectly for anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes.
After successfully finding traces of CDS from the synthesis, Sarswat and Free proceeded to illuminate the CDS to monitor their formation and color.
For example, sucrose and D-fructose dissolved in soft drinks were found to be the most effective sources for production of CDS.
The ability to create QDS in the form of CDS from food and beverage waste would eliminate the need for concern over toxic waste,
as the food and beverages themselves are not toxic. Ds derived from food and beverage waste are not based on common toxic elements such as cadmium and selenium,
which makes their processing and disposal more environmentally friendly than it is for most other QDS.
In addition the use of food and beverage waste as the starting material for QDS allows for reduced waste
and cost to produce a useful material, said Free. In addition to being broken toxic when down, cadmium selenide is also expensivene website listed a price of $529 for 25 ml of the compound. ith food
and beverage waste that are already there, our starting material is much less expensive. In fact, it essentially free,
said Sarswat. According to a report from the US Department of agriculture, roughly 31 percent of food produced in 2014 was not available for human consumption.
To be able to use this waste for creating LEDS which are used widely in a number of technologies would be an environmentally sustainable approach.
Looking forward Sarswat and Free hope to continue studying the LEDS produced from food and beverage waste for stability
and long term performance. he ultimate goal is to do this on a mass scale and to use these LEDS in everyday devices.
To successfully make use of waste that already exists, that the end goal, said Sarswat e
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. 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.""""Medicinal plants with high value are often difficult to grow
#Scientists Produce Tomatoes with Industrial Quantities of Natural Compounds Given the opportunity to drink fifty bottles of wine or eat one tomato,
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. 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.""""Medicinal plants with high value are often difficult to grow
When treated with a chemical cocktail, they mature into structures that resemble miniature kidneys. These organoids contain tubules,
Food & Nutritional Science who led the research team. evelopment of antioxidant and antimicrobial bioactive films can improve product shelf life and safety,
with some caveats The Food and Drug Administration proposed new rules Tuesday that would allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood in the U s. for the first time in decades.
just like beer or wine are, possibly in the privacy of your own home. Advances in bioengineering had allowed scientists to understand the complex processes within the poppy plant that convert sugar to morphine,
and they were tweaking genes in yeast to allow many of the same reactions to take place in the lab. By June,
using sugar to make two opioid compounds, thebaine and hydrocodone, using engineered yeast. Biochemical engineer Christina Smolke and colleagues had been working on the problem of synthesizing opioids and other plant-based medicines in the lab for about a decade.
"Practically you could get more of these compounds from eating a poppy-seed bagel, "she said.
a postdoctoral fellow at Colorado who conducts research on nutrition and vascular biology. Dow underscored that engaging in regular physical activity appears to have broader effects lowering"bad"cholesterol,
Top 10 Cancer-Fighting Foods With CIVO, doctors"can compare drug A to drug B,
"Even more than food, you need clean water, "Milzman said. UNICEF is helping to pay for water tanks in areas where people are said congregating,
Top 10 Deadliest Natural disasters in History The organization is also providing people with oral rehydration salts
The rehydration salts are added to water and provide electrolytes to help people hydrate, Tidey said.
plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even more unusual ingredients such as living cells. The machines work by depositing layers of material,
Five-month-old Ian Orbich was unable to have any food in his stomach without suffering cardiac arrests.
Sixteen-month-old Garrett Peterson's airways"were floppy, with the consistency of a wet noodle,
"The splints were shaped a bit like hot dog buns, and when they were implanted into the infants and, sewn around their own windpipes,
or animals eat food that is contaminated with them. Eventually, the proteins replicate to the point where they form plaques that can kill brain cells,
(which causes body cells to take up sugar) and leptin (which causes people to feel full after eating),
the researchers said. Keith Baar, an associate professor at the University of California, Davis who has studied the gene for irisin
Humans can become infected with E. histolytica by ingesting food or water contaminated with its cysts.
Humans can become infected with E. histolytica by ingesting food or water contaminated with its cysts.
Recently, planetary scientists detected hydrated salts on these slopes at Hale crater, corroborating their original hypothesis that the streaks are formed indeed by liquid water.
we also found spectral evidence for hydrated salts on the slopes where RSL form.""Hydrated salts precipitate from liquid water,
so detecting them is a big deal especially since circumstances make it unlikely that CRISM could spot RSL water directly.
. so I think this hydrated signature of the salts is definitely a'smoking gun, '"he said.
The RSL-associated salts appear to be perchlorates, a class of chlorine-containing substances that are widespread on Mars. These salts lower the freezing point of water from 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius) to minus 94 F (minus 70 C),
Ojha said.""This property vastly increases the stability of brine salty water on Mars, "he said.
"The flying vehicles could be used to deliver materials such as food, water and vaccines to people living in remote parts of the world,
#Nicotine-eating bacteria joins stop-smoking fight Why do people smoke? There's no denying that smoking is horrible for you,
In 25 trials at contaminated drinking sites in Ghana and Bangladesh, the paper was effective at removing 99 percent of bacteria."
But when their population booms, they can quickly become a plague, consuming coral reefs--their favorite food--with a frenzied fervor.
because there's no good way to enjoy your favorite beverage, today is your day. Scottish distiller Ballantine's, in partnership with Open Space agency James Parr, has designed the world's first whiskey glass optimized for drinking in the microgravity of space."
"Our brief was to develop a whisky glass that worked under the conditions of microgravity,
the scientific term for zero gravity,"says Parr.""It was important that we focused on creating a ritual around how you drink from the Ballantine Space Glass to ensure a familiarity of what we are used to here On earth?
"Wee engineered a#Spaceglass that works in microgravity to ensure the spirit of whisky lives on into the future https://t. co/Ykpe2lsl0qballatine's poured an incredibly amount of time
explained. his meant I had to make the Ballantine Space Whisky more heightened in flavor
and distilling for a whiskey beverage in space, check out Ballantine's in depth chronicle on Medium.
Findings show that hydrated salts are present on the surface of Mars. Hydrated salts would mean that the water on Mars is briny.
According to Popular Science, the salt in the water allows it to remain liquid at lower temperatures.
Those are all common ingredients used in Li-ion rechargeable batteries but the thickness of these electrodes are just 80 to 90 nanometers,
which are dissolved basically salts in a solution. The EPFL scientists exploited the liquid tunability to bring it to an ideal viscosity gradient enough to slow down DNA.
Scientists want to convert such biopolymers to free the useful sugars and release energy An earlier instrument,
#Waste coffee used as fuel storage: Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane.
Waste coffee used as fuel storage: Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane London,
"Kemp found inspiration in his cup of coffee whilst discussing an entirely different project with colleagues at UNIST."
"We were sitting around drinking coffee and looked at the coffee grounds and thought'I wonder
and washing-because the coffee is such a brilliant absorbant.""The work also demonstrates hydrogen storage at cryogenic temperatures,
"The molecules are stacked like dishes in a dish rack, "Furis explains, "these stacked molecules--this dish rack--is the electron superhighway."
they become as malleable as chewing gum when heated and can be moulded easily or blown like glass.
"which are dissolved basically salts in a solution. The EPFL scientists exploited the liquid's tunability to bring it to an ideal viscosity gradient-enough to slow down DNA.
including pathogen detection in food or water and therapeutic drug monitoring at home, a feature which could drastically improve the efficient of various class of drugs and treatments a
They look like a"sandwich, "made of nanolayers of ferromagnetic material, superconductor and other metals. By changing the direction of magnetization it is possible to control the current in superconductor.
in the same way that a coffee mug shape can be deformed into a bagel shape, but they do not readily go back into a state where all the magnetic moments are aligned.
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.
lactate a s. o. and react more quickly No larger than a pack of chewing gum, the prototype developed by EPFL's Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI) is deceptively simple in appearance.
lactate a s. o. and react more quickly No larger than a pack of chewing gum, the prototype developed by EPFL's Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI) is deceptively simple in appearance.
nonvolatile, liquid-salt propellant. Above the reservoir are the chips, which each have a porous substrate with about 500 pointed tips and, above that, an extractor grid with small holes.
When nanosilicates are incorporated into a gelatin matrix, several physical, chemical and biological properties of the hydrogel are enhanced,
For example, the hydrogel can be designed to remain at the injury site for specific durations by controlling the interactions between the nanosilicates and gelatin,
"What we were doing was the equivalent of bathing the film in acetic acid vapors--essentially exposing it to concentrated vinegar,
to prevent corrosion or food spoilage.""It's also important in space applications, where any change in humidity could signal a leak,
Removing salt and other minerals from our biggest available source of water--seawater--may help satisfy a growing global population thirsty for fresh water for drinking, farming, transportation, heating, cooling and industry.
#Rapid and efficient DNA chip technology for testing 14 major types of food borne pathogens Conventional methods for testing foodborne pathogens is based on the cultivation of pathogens,
Now Toshiba Ltd and Kawasaki City Institute for Public health have collaborated in the development of a rapid and efficient automatic abbreviated DNA detection technology that can test for 14 major types of food
The DNA chip card is expected to find applications in hygiene management in food manufacture, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.
and PSB formed the shell to create an nversemicelle. he material is controlled easily by salt alone, rather than by a combination of several stimuli like ph, temperature or light,
which behaves like a olecular drinking strawand which may have applications in water purification and elsewhere. For some years, Huaqiang Zeng of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology has led a team aiming to produce tubular molecules that could pipe water across membranes.
and other food products that cause tooth decay. In other words, the nanoparticles release the drug when exposed to cavity-causing eating habitsprecisely
when it is needed most to quickly stop acid-producing bacteria. The researchers tested the product in rats that were infected with Streptococcus mutans-a microbe that causes tooth decay.
By comparing (c) and (d), a Burgers vector, which characterizes partial dislocations, of 1/4 was determined.
#Millions of liters of juice from 1 grapefruit (Nanowerk News) The Austrian Centre of Industrial biotechnology (acib) uses the positive aspects of synthetic biology for the ecofriendly production of a natural compound("Production of the sesquiterpenoid
because Nootkatone is used as a high quality, natural flavoring substance in millions of liters of soft and lifestyle drinks,
so that our cells are able to produce Nootkatone from sugar, "says acib researcher Tamara Wriessnegger.
Ultimately, the aroma found in one grapefruit leads to millions of liters of tasty juice.
With the help of the new genes the yeast is capable to synthesize the high-prized, natural flavor (more than 4000 euros per kilo) in a cheap way and in useful quantities from sugar (one euro per kilo.
Nootkatone is an important substance for the food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries, says Harald Pichler. As an insecticide it is effective against ticks, mosquitoes or bedbugs.
In cosmetics, people appreciate the good smell, in soft drinks a fine, subtle taste. Because the natural sources cannot meet the demands,
With these"synthetic"organisms the active ingredient is produced at lower costs s
#Nature-inspired nanotechnology mesh captures oil but lets water through (Nanowerk News) The unassuming piece of stainless steel mesh in a lab at The Ohio State university doesn't look like a very big deal,
because it is an ingredient in glass, and they wanted to explore this technology's potential for creating smudge-free glass coatings.
"In all our coatings, different combinations of ingredients in the layers yield different properties. The trick is to select the right layers."
which designs and builds organisms able to make useful products such as medicines, energy, food, materials and chemicals.
Food for discussion These results will contribute an angle of nuance to the current debate on biofuels in The netherlands.
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