which is just icing on the cake. And since this platform could potentially be used for such a broad array of drugs,
Its molecular structure is an atomic sandwich made up of one molybdenum atom for every two tellurium atoms HY1.
These atoms form a thin, molecular sandwich with the one metal and two chalcogenides, and depending on their fabrication method can exist in several slightly different shaped atomic arrangements.
In each simulated growth condition, the main nutrient source of the growth medium (carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus,
#Engineers'sandwich'atomic layers to make new materials for energy storage The scientists whose job it is to test the limits of what nature--specifically chemistry--will allow to exist, just set up shop on some new real estate on the Periodic table.
that can sandwich 2-D sheets of elements that otherwise couldn't be combined in a stable way.
Suspensions of colloidal particles are most familiar to us as beverages, cosmetics and paints. At a diameter in the range of ten to one hundred nanometres, a single such particle is invisible to the naked eye.
#New research could help build computers from DNA Scientists have found a way to'switch'the structure of DNA using copper salts
when biodiesel is formed from vegetable oil, and convert this into an ingredient to produce even more biodiesel.
It is believed this new process will have significant environmental benefits by improving the yield of biodiesel in a sustainable way that doesn't require the use of additional fossil fuels
used in everything from fire extinguishers to oil recovery to carbonated beverages, but it is also a major greenhouse gas.
they become as malleable as chewing gum when heated and can be moulded easily or blown like glass.
a solution filled with necessary nutrients, through the microtubes, the researchers mimicked the flow of blood.
These nutrients acted as growth factors which, in addition to the EPCS, allowed the resulting silk structure to support the formation of functioning platelets.
since the basic ingredient is dirt cheap material that we are modifying using well-known chemistry. One frequent barrier to taking systems that work in the laboratory and making them into practical, marketable products is the ability to scale up the production process. ou need to be able to scale efficiently,
#Nanocapsule able to protect nutrients in beverages and food supplements Researchers at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) developed a nanostructured system capable of protecting the active compounds of juices and nutritional supplements from high temperatures during the pasteurization process,
in order to retain their nutritional properties. Maria de la Luz Zambrano Zaragoza, researcher at the Nanotechnology area, explained that the benefits of the development called"Nanostructured systems as thermal protectors of functional ingredients in foods"are maintaining the natural compounds,
"and what you read on the label is really present during the storage time of the product before its expiration date."
These nanocapsules would be added to the commercial drink. The consumption of the system designed in the Laboratory of Transformation
and Emerging Technologies in Food has no contraindications, because it prevents interaction with our cellular system.
"We tested it in orange, strawberry and watermelon juice at 70 and 90 Degree celsius, then we quantified the beta-carotene in the samples
The benefit obtained by using the nanostructured food system is less addition of active substances usually required during production,
Next, tiny capsules containing red food dyen easy-to-visualize substitute for biomoleculesre printed on top of the gel.
this time filled with blue food dye to represent a different type of biomolecule. The layering pattern continues until the gel achieves a predetermined height.
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
and nutrients to rapidly proliferating cells in the tissue scaffold. Current patterning techniques allow for the production of random,
even though it used a significantly smaller amount of the active ingredient than commercial sunscreens, the researchersformulation protected equally well against sunburn.
When the active ingredients of sunscreen absorb UV LIGHT a chemical change triggers the generation of oxygen-carrying molecules known as reactive oxygen species (ROS.
The nanoparticle hydrophilic layer essentially locks in the active ingredient, a hydrophobic chemical called padimate O. Some sunscreen solutions that use larger particles of inorganic compounds, such as titanium dioxide or zinc oxide,
The group measured flows of five different salt ions through several graphene sheet setups by applying a voltage and measuring the current flowing through the pores.
#Researchers create transplantation model for 3-D printed constructs Using sugar, silicone and a 3-D printer,
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.
Bioengineering graduate student Samantha Paulsen and research technician Anderson Ta worked together to develop a proof-of-concept construct--a small silicone gel about the size of a small candy gummy bear--using 3-D printing.
It's a technique pioneered by Miller in 2012--and inspired by the intricate sugar glass cages crafted by pastry chefs to garnish desserts.
Using an open-source 3-D 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's team dissolved the sugar, leaving behind a network of small channels in the silicone."
"They don't yet look like the blood vessels found in organs, but they have some of the key features relevant for a transplant surgeon,
The rats were asked to choose between two identical visual shapes by pressing their nose against one of them on a touchscreen (similar to an ipad), in exchange for rewards in the form of sugar pellets.
With time, rats learned to negotiate a trade-off between a small reward (1 sugar pellet) delivered immediately
and a large reward (4 sugar pellets) delivered after a delay. The researchers discovered that the average rat,
This lesion, a damaged form of the normal DNA base cytosine, is caused by the reactive molecule hypochlorous acid the main ingredient in household bleach
a new technique with many practical applications. he key ingredient of our new formula is sorbitol,
Surprisingly, in addition to drug craving, the animals lacking RGS7 also worked harder to obtain a food reward,
Uncle Joe smokes a pack a day, drinks like a fish and lives to a ripe old age.
including watching their diet, exercising and managing any weight and blood pressure issues to help stave off or slow disease progression,
We also know that many people tune out messages about nutrition and exercise until a health crisis gets their attention,
#They are now 3d printing drugs THE Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prescription drug made through 3d printing:
and will spend their days eating foods like powdered cheese and canned tuna, only going outside if dressed in a spacesuit,
With all that time spent in a cramped space without access to fresh air, food,
The first HI-SEAS experiment involved studies about cooking on Mars, and was followed by a four-month and an eight-month cohabitation mission.
and learning to cook things like bagels and pizza dough with the ingredients on hand. Then, just days after the mission ended in Mid-june,
eating fresh vegetables, using a knife to cut meat, swimming, and drinking soda and champagne. couldn believe how much I had missed the flavours and textures of a juicy steak,
she wrote a
#Google reveals new look logo Google logo keeps its four-color scheme but shifts to a soft sans-serif font.
For the first 11 weeks of pregnancy, before the mother's nutrient-rich blood supply is plumbed in,
For the first time, researchers have worked out in detail how nutrients make their way from these glands into the developing embryo."
Vital nutrients To investigate, Aplin and his colleagues examined womb, placenta and embryonic tissue donated by women who had chosen to terminate their pregnancies.
"Once the sugar is there, some is used straight away as energy to help the embryo grow, and the rest is reconverted to the storage molecule,
because as well as containing sugar fragments, they contain protein that can be broken down into amino acids the building blocks from
Next, Aplin and his colleagues hope to investigate how a mother's diet and other factors, such as smoking,
"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,
#Bionic pancreas automatically controls diabeticsblood sugar SENSOR, pump action! An app linked to a glucose sensor
Type 1 diabetes is caused by destruction of beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin to control how much sugar circulates in the blood.
for example after a meal, the algorithm automatically sends instructions to the insulin pump. t tells the pump how much insulin to deliver
children using the bionic device spent half as much time with seriously low sugar levels, just 5 minutes a night. t took time to trust the system,
but these need fine, dividing systems of blood vessels to supply them with oxygen and nutrients.
Migraines can be triggered by lack of food or too much stress but their underlying cause has remained a mystery.
In the current issue of Science, Smolke and her team at Stanford university, report that they have created yeast that can convert sugar into hydrocodone, the active ingredient in Vicodin.
one day, be grown at home and used to turn sugar into heroin which is made easily from morphine or thebaine.
the Food and Drug Administration has given approval to a drug that is produced on a 3-D printer.
In the current issue of Science, Smolke and her team at Stanford university, report that they have created yeast that can convert sugar into hydrocodone, the active ingredient in Vicodin.
one day, be grown at home and used to turn sugar into heroin which is made easily from morphine or thebaine.
Or maybe the latest cooking gadget for zesting lemons. Or, perhaps, it's a secret weapon for X-men superhero Wolverine.
to find new active ingredients faster and more reliably, to prove the presence of environmental pollutants,
By way of comparison, the system can detect that one cube of sugar was dissolved in three million liters water,
The active ingredient in Spritam is levetiracetam, an existing anticonvulsant used to treat epilepsy that has been available as a generic in the U s. since 2008.
In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Dr. Alfred S. Mcewen and other scientists identified waterlogged molecules salts of a type known as perchlorates in readings from orbit. hat
a direct detection of water in the form of hydration of salts, Dr. Mcewen said. here pretty much has to have been liquid water recently present to produce the hydrated salt.
and found signs of hydrated salt at four locations. These salts, known as perchlorates, lower the freezing temperature of water.
But where is the water coming from? Chang quotes Mcewen: here are two basic origins for the water:
just a single tomato they developed contains as much of the grape compound resveratrol as 50 bottles of red wine.
as well as diet and health research. The researchers also hope that the similar technique can be used to manufacture other compounds that form the basis of many medicines a
which called for two species of garlic and onions, wine, and bile from a cow stomach brewed in a brass cauldron
take wine and bullocksgall, of both equal quantities, mix with the leek, put this then into a brazen vessel,
No individual ingredient had no effect on the cultures, but the combined liquid killed almost all the cells;
the overall power density--the amount of juice you can store in a battery vis-a-vis its size--more closely resembles the large lead-acid battery you'd find in your car.
The idea was to create a system that could remove salt from water and meet three criteria:
The batteries then power a system that removes salt from the water through electrodialysis. On the most basic level, that means that dissolved salt particles,
(which makes water unusable for crops and for drinking), the team also applied UV LIGHT to disinfect some of the water as it passed through the system.
removing salt from 2, 100 gallons of water each day. The next step is to test it in an even harsher environment,
Hundreds of thousands of people need food, water, shelter, or some combination of the three, not to mention the numerous people who desperately need medical care.
and B have an extra sugar molecule bound to the surface of their red blood cells --but a transfusion of the wrong blood type can be fatal.
all because it detects that sugar molecule. Now researchers from the University of British columbia have figured out a way to change the type of blood donated by volunteers,
by using an enzyme that simply snips off that extra sugar, called an antigen. The result:
#A Team Of MIT Bartender Robots Serves Beer More Efficiently Using robots, a team at MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory has solved an ancient problem:
needing another beer but not wanting to stand up and get it. Two small Turtlebots (which look like coolers on wheels) travel between a beer-providing PR2 robot bartender
and rooms of students at work, asking the students if they need a beer and then returning with a beverage
if one is ordered. Bartending is a good task to demonstrate machine teamwork: the waiterbots each check in with a room full of humans,
asking if there is a need they can meet. Then the machines roll back, picking up the supplies required from the coordinating robot in the middle.
and it easy to imagine the same robots that here dispense beer instead taking orders for water bottles and crackers at an emergency shelter.
which tend to focus more on specialized drink preparation than maximum drink dispersal. As seen in the video below
this bartending team mainly just takes orders for beer in cans and then delivers cans of beer.
MIT robot team won be headlining any fancy cocktail parties, but could ably staff a low-key dive.
Which, after a long day spent making robots fetch beers, is all anyone really needs, anyway w
a basic ingredient and precursor to producing opioids, over a 72 hour period and using sugar as a food source.
By further engineering the yeast they created hydrocodone, a common semisynthetic opioid. The final pathway that yielded the hydrocodone
self-healing robots with survival-of-the-fittest capabilities, human reflexes and the ability to serve drinks will one day rise up
including through food (this is how mad cow disease spreads). Many of the resulting diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-jakob disease (CJD), have long incubation periods but eventually lead to death.
even the most potable water contains a cocktail of dissolved chemicals that give it a unique flavor
containing the wrong dose or no active ingredient at all. This is especially an issue in the developing world.
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved the drug Imlygic to treat late-stage melanoma on the skin and lymph nodes.
and veins bring necessary nutrients to organs throughout the body as well as take waste away. But conditions such as diabetes, kidney disease,
even those who grow crops with relatively low water needs like wine grapes are feeling the pinch.
Spiers was originally calling it the aptic Sandwich, but has leaned since more toward nimotus. According to Spiers, the next stages in design will be to refine the level of touch technology so the cube can communicate more effectively.
and quickest way to buy everyday thingse it a morning coffee, quick trip to the supermarket,
The scientists added all the ingredients to an aqueous solution. When irradiated with visible light, the mixture starts producing hydrogen.
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.
Cell phones, for example, use resonances of these surface waves to filter electric signals in a manner similar to a wine glass resonating when a voice hits it at exactly the right pitch.
which a wine glass resonates changes as you fill it up. If you ping it with a spoon,
With practice you can guess from the tone how full the wine glass is without looking at the glass
the main ingredient of natural gas, at 35 to 65 times atmospheric pressure (500 to 900 psi),
#Researchers create transplantation model for 3-D printed constructs Using sugar, silicone and a 3-D printer,
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.
Bioengineering 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 3
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 3-D 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,
Auyeung said. he molten salts now being used to store solar thermal energy can only work at about 600 degrees centigrade,
state and tribal governments to reduce food loss and waste in order to improve overall food security and conserve our nation's natural resources."
but too much of this food goes to waste, "says Vilsack.""An average family of four leaves more than two million calories, worth nearly $1, 500, uneaten each year.
Our new reduction goal demonstrates America's leadership on a global level in in getting wholesome food to people who need it,
cutting environmental pollution and promoting innovative approaches for reducing food loss and waste.""According to the U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) and EPA, food loss and waste in the U s. accounts for approximately 31 percentr 133 billion poundsf the overall food supply available to retailers and consumers and has far-reaching
impacts on food security, resource conservation and climate change. Food loss and waste is single largest component of disposed U s. municipal solid waste,
and accounts for a significant portion of U s. methane emissions. Landfills are the third largest source of methane in the United states. Furthermore,
experts have projected that reducing food losses by just 15 percent would provide enough food for more than 25 million Americans every year,
helping to sharply reduce incidences of food insecurity for millions.""Let's feed people, not landfills.
By reducing wasted food in landfills, we cut harmful methane emissions that fuel climate change, conserve our natural resources,
. and we're proud to be part of a national effort to reduce the food that goes into landfills."
recover, and recycle food loss and waste. By the end of 2014, the U s. Food waste Challenge had over 4, 000 active participants,
In addition to the U s. Food waste Challenge, USDA has unveiled several food loss reduction initiatives over the past few years
including an app to help consumers safely store food and understand food date labels, new guidance to manufacturers on donating misbranded or sub-spec foods,
and research on innovative technologies to make reducing food loss and waste cost effective. USDA will build on these successes with additional initiatives targeting food loss and waste reduction throughout its programs and policies.
In addition, USDA is launching a new consumer education campaign through its Center for Nutrition policy and Promotion with information on food loss and waste facts and reduction tips.
Moreover, a new section on Choosemyplate. gov will educate consumers about reducing food waste to help stretch household budgets.
USDA and EPA will also continue to encourage the private sectorood service companies institutions, restaurants, grocery stores,
and moreo set their own aggressive goals for reducing food loss and waste in the months ahead.
Organizations such as the Consumer goods Forum, which recently approved a new resolution to halve food waste within the operations of its 400 retailer
#In a first, drug using 3d printing technology gets FDA nod The U s. Food and Drug Administration has approved,
which ones are bringing in the bacon and which ones are science projects and which ones are said long term bets
William Laurance, a professor at Australia James Cook University and another of the study co-authors
They can keep their food down, which can lead to vomiting or accidentally inhaling it into their lungs.
Eating while standing up can help dogs move food down their esophagus properly. That where the Bailey chair comes into play:
ranging from simple throat and skin infections to life-threatening invasive conditions such as necrotizing fasciitis (lesh-eating disease and toxic shock syndrome.
assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at at Washington University School of medicine in St louis."One of my patients told me he was able to pick up a noodle off his chest
It meant a lot for him to clean off that noodle without anyone helping him.""Soft nerve bundles form the human spinal cord,
by blocking their ability to use alternative sources of nutrition. The discovery was made possible by identifying the metabolic programs used by cancer cells to fuel their growth.
This need is met using glucose (sugar) as the main source of nutrition. Cancer cells use glucose at rates tens or even hundreds of times larger than that of normal cells.
however, cancer cells must switch to using alternative sources of nutrition to maintain their growth and survival.
They found that some lung cancer cells change their food preferences-switching from glucose to the amino acid glutamine
-when sugar is scarce. The researchers found that cancer cells use an enzyme known as PEPCK to reprogram cancer cell metabolism."
and other nutrients, can impact cancer progression.""Our work shows that cancers can use alternative fuel sources to help drive their growth under stressful conditions,"notes Prof.
They then increased this natural pressure sensitivity by indenting a waffle pattern into the thin plastic
or a cold glass of water from a hot cup of coffee. This will take time.
they found that the mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria also produces a protein that binds to a particular type of sugar molecule in the placenta.
Researchers found that the same type of sugar molecule also is present in many types of cancer.
They realized that the sugar molecule--oncofetal chondroitin sulfate--could be a target for anticancer drugs,
""This is an extraordinary finding that paves the way for targeting sugar molecules in pediatric and adulthood human cancer,
"This has been replaced with water as the solvent and lithium iodide as the salt, which offers low-cost, high-energy storage capabilities."
The tests come after a feasibility study looking into how dynamic battery charging could solve the problem of electric vehicles running out of juice,
and we can have distributed food and fuel across the planet, he told Hall at the ABC
Berkeley in the US announced that they'd figured out how to make'homemade'heroin using a modified form of sugar-fed yeast
They discovered that a certain type of enzyme can turn glucose sugars into morphine and were able to successfully express it in a simple form of genetically engineered yeast.
They then fed a cocktail of specially chosen molecules to the yeast, and it essentially'poops'out the THC.
The big challenge now will be figuring out how to replace these molecules with a raw material such as sugar to make the process cheap
a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai, told Tech Insider that using all the compounds in marijuana simultaneously is like"throwing 400 tablets in a cocktail
'"rather than figuring out which component of that cocktail is really beneficial for the specific disease.
Developed by a team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt, the procedure uses a desalination technique called pervaporation to remove the salt from sea water
"It can effectively desalinate water with high concentration of salt like that of the Red sea, where desalination costs more and yields less."
-when it's heated it's as malleable as chewing gum, but when it cools it's three times stronger than steel.
and track hydrated salts in these gullies-using an image spectrometer on the MRO, the NASA team has been able to link these salts to areas where the slope gullies
(or"linae")are at their largest, and that's the evidence they needed to suggest flowing water is the cause.
and grow food. If scientists can work out where the water is being stored or formed, then these sites would be prime candidates for landing spots on the first manned mission to the planet."
From a genetic perspective at least, the ingredient that helps make bread rise (and beer so compelling) shares more than a few things in common with you and
what you had for breakfast. A new type of sensor that can'sniff out'traces of ovarian cancer in a patient's breath has been developed by researchers in Israel,
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