with some US doctors now prescribing Adderall#amphetamine salts used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy#to healthy children from low-income families purely to improve academic performance.
Students think of these as study aids in the same way as someone might drink coffee before work.
The same could be said, for example, of improved nutrition and family planning. Smart drugs may be character-changing,
Regulatory authorities such as the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency are set up to evaluate the effects of treatments on disease and disorders, not healthy people.
With the money earned from his appearance in commercials for the coffee company Nespresso Clooney has been funding the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP),
First, there the issue of using a food for energy. Olivier Dubois, senior natural resources officer at the United nations Food and agriculture organisation (FAO),
says that using food for energy like sugar cane for biofuels must avoid depleting food stocks and competing with farmers. ou first need to look at:
if eating potatoes is covered, selling potatoes is covered, and there some potatoes left, then yes, it can work In a country like Kenya,
the potato is the second most important food for families after maize. Smallholder farmers produced around 10 million tonnes of potatoes this year,
ust in case the guy/gal had a late night drinking session and is just not waking up,
Another Badir startup, Yatooq, has developed an automatic Arabic coffee machine (it needs a more complicated process than ordinary coffee.
Coffee, however, probably won turn the economy around on its own. While Badir focuses on lighter tech industries,
I'll just grab a sandwich and I'll have my lunch in the car'.
'They're adapting as they go to this technology, and we're seeing new paradigms being set.#
Some of the major international companies located here include Coca-cola, Pepsi, IBM, American express, Agilent, Microsoft, and Bank of america."
They have backups for everything#water, electricity and food. With no reliable public transport available, Genpact provides cabs to take over 10,000 employees back home.
The cafes, kiosks and benches teem with young entrepreneurs who seem to survive on a diet of caffeine and wi-fi. Of Israel's 5, 000 tech companies,
Last year, Boeing released a video of its High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (Champ)- a missile that essentially fries circuits by causing a surge in power.
Placing the cookie-sized device to your forehead for 10 seconds provides stats on your heart rate,
Small, rural tea farmers in Kenya, for example, complain that unscrupulous buyers routinely under-weigh their produce by 10-20%.
that food wrapping calls out "I'm nearly past my sell-by date!##OK, so perhaps it's all a bit nightmarish rather than utopian,
Pass the salt. And the pepper. And while you're at it, the ketchup too.
They said it politely, but these were among the reactions of the two expert"tasters#who earlier this month got the first taste of a potential food of the future#a burger grown in a laboratory.
Funded by Google cofounder Sergey Brin, the five-year project took cells from organic cows,
Plus egg powder, beetroot juice, breadcrumbs, salt and saffron to add texture, flavour and colour to the otherwise white meat.
And $330, 000. The result? One taste tester said it was"close to meat, but not that juicy#.
#Another described it as"like an animal protein cake#.#Commercial cultured meat is at least a decade away,
And what might we be making a meal of decades or centuries from now? Perhaps science fiction can offer some clues.
which offer chillingly detailed dystopian visions of near futures in which food is either blandly synthetic, badly genetically modified, or both.
Less intellectually nourishing sci-fi food staples include the entire meal in a pill (or dollop or slab of gunk
The idea of all-in-one food pills goes back to the 19th century and has been the subject of much serious research.
Nasa recently admitted that as part of a programme"to turn science fiction into fact#they are funding work to develop a 3d food printer.
So if we do ever send astronauts to Mars they might be tucking into freshly printed pizza.
Another dish frequently cooked up is a future in which we've embraced entirely nouvelle cuisine:
something delicious, nutritious and entirely fictitious. I'm rather partial to Slurm, the disturbingly more-ish soda made from the secretions of giant extraterrestrial slugs in Futurama.
But perhaps the best example is named spoo (so because it's oops backwards) in Babylon 5,
but not the ones we're used to eating. As a result, less traditional species are expected to increasingly find their way into trawlers, supermarkets and restaurants.
A recent report published UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation concludes that as the climate changes
And keep the salt, pepper and ketchup handy. If you would like to comment on this article
There was soft acoustic music and falafel, and a lot of beautiful people exuding a studied coolness.""You're going to see a lot of amazing stuff coming out of Berlin,
Recycled juice That doesn lessen its promise beyond New york city classrooms. Demand for desktop PCS may be declining in developed countries,
nutrients and other molecules seep through the walls and pass between the two. What the blood doesn't need is passed off to the urine forming in the tubes,
such as breaking down certain foods into energy and useful nutrients, suppressing harmful microbes, preventing allergies and assisting the immune system in a number of other ways.
molecules produced when gut bacteria digest components of plant-based foods. Other scientists have documented their roles in human health,
since tissues are shot through with blood vessels bringing in nutrients and ferrying away waste. What's emerging is a picture of these receptors as a kind of general-purpose chemical sensor.
Spinal meningitis as a baby and extremely poor eating habits my entire life, I feel, have caused my immune system to overact.
Certain bacteria as well as high fat diet are associated with an increased risk for atherosclerosis. One of these bacteria Porphyromonas gingivalis is found in the mouth of humans with periodontal disease;
The third group was placed on a high-fat diet while the fourth group was the control. In collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at Boston University the researchers performed genome-wide microarray profiling
Given the prevalence of diet-induced obesity and infection with Porphyromonas gingivalis andchlamydia pneumoniae in the general population and the likelihood of co-morbidity of obesity with chronic or recurring infection with these common pathogens these findings suggest that the development of atherosclerosis in humans is likely more complex
or a high-fat diet may cause atherosclerotic plaques to undergo changes which affect their size and stability and may ultimately lead to a heart attack she added d
and nutrient and energy-sensing pathways, but how Myc engages those mechanisms is still not clear.
we can control the blood temperature the way coffeehouses would with an espresso machine to capture
He could not fully create mature sperm and egg cells in a dish. Rather, after turning them backwards into the induced pluripotent stem (ips) cell stage,
The groups are also following Saitou progress as he works on creating fully mature egg and sperm cells in the dish.
Free gourmet lunches, ping pong tables, and in-office yoga classes have become commonplace. Companies are getting creative with ideas that go beyond the standard year-end bonus to keep employees feeling engaged and appreciated.
meals, choose your own hardware, field tripsnd a company yacht. Watertown, Massachusetts-based UX design outfit Fresh Tilled Soil sends employees to envy-inducing places
From tech to food, Israeli business with China has quickly heated up. Last week, China's Bright Food Group finally reached a preliminary agreement to buy a majority stake in Israel's largest foodmaker, Tnuva Food industries, for an estimated $1 billion.
Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a ministerial committee on May 21 to approve a five-year plan to double annual Israeli exports to China.
#Marist Beefs Up Cloud and Virtualization Tools in SDN Lab Clooud Computinga New york college that runs a testing lab for cloud computing will be adding new technology from two private partners to expand
#Beer and Food Scraps Can Power Chevrolet Bi-fuel Impala Trash to fuel the stuff of the 1980s sci-fi comedy movie trilogy ack to the Futureis now a reality.
The 2015 Bi-fuel Chevrolet Impala not a tricked-out Delorean really can run on leftovers table scraps and oh yeah grains from brewing beer.
And don forget beer: Anheuser-busch Columbus brewery provides an organic by-product to quasar for conversion to methane gas. f you can buy renewable fuel at $1. 95 per gallon
That the same amount of juice you need to lift an apple 1. 6 feet off the ground.
Rogers says the whole system is about as stiff as the plastic used to make food wrappers.
They served up nearly 80000 cups of tea an amount that could be made from the bridge average daily power output.
#Watch Bill gates Drink Water From Human waste We know that Bill gates made a lot of money from Microsoft
which is purified for drinking. The dry solids are fed then into a fire, which creates steam to fuel a steam engine that drives an electricity-producing generator.
and is used, for example, in the food and pharmaceutical industries to sterilise. During this project we developed a lot of valuable knowledge
and then the hand modifies its grasp to hold it with three fingers while pouring the drink.
commercial cooler chills beverage in just 50 seconds! Commercial fridges and freezers keep food fresh and beverages cool.
They are vital to modern commerce but troublesome for the environment. European industrial researchers set out to turn these power-hungry machines into a green technology of the future.
The trademarked-Texcooler they developed can chill a standard-sized beverage in under a minute.
and serving food and beverages that meet the expectations of customers and relevant authorities. But there is a big problem with these handy machines they consume massive amounts of power.
That whirring sound coming from the corner of a convenience store is a drinks fridge struggling to cool itself
This is where the EU-funded Rapidcool project stepped in to tackle the challenge by developing a new technology for cooling beverages efficiently and rapidly
which has attracted considerable interest from beverage-makers. The team realised the key to reversing this trend would be to break away from the traditional approach.
Up to 90%energy saving Rapidcool developed an autonomous, modular-cooling apparatus for cooling drink cans and bottles from room temperature to around 4°C in some 50 seconds.
if not all, open-cabinet-style drinks fridges used around the world. With V-Tex, notes the team, you get a cold drink every time with considerable reductions in energy use,
therefore V-Tex not only matches but surpasses existing consumer expectations. It meets a broad spectrum of end-user requirements
including a leading global distributor of beer. Agreements are in place to manufacture the system, and a family of related products are under way
nutrition and exercise for example by asking its owner whether he or she will go for a run that day,
and suggesting taking a packed lunch. The Companion does not have to be accessed on a traditional computer.
a liquid by-product obtained from the production of cheese. The whey is used as a bio-coating a biodegradable film-for the plastic,
not only packaging producer and food packer SMES, but also other, larger businesses seeking more sustainable wrapping methods, including pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies i
European researchers are working on a sugar-based drug-delivery system which they believe will boost the potency of anticancer drugs,
The legacy of the three Marie Curie researchers will be based the sugar fully recyclable PEF bottles that will steadily replace the familiar PET bottles.
#Deciphering the'language of sugars'to benefit health and industry It was this challenge which formed the focus of Polymode,
It is not just ketchup and blood whose properties are dictated by complex sugars. Also known as polysaccharides, these complex sugars are by far the most abundant biomolecules on the planet.
Produced biologically in plants, animals and microorganisms, they determine how cells behave in a multitude of ways.
Sometimes, their role is structural, giving strength to plant cell walls. Sometimes they store energy. And they carry vital information by
which cells ommunicate Human immune systems often recognise pathogens by the sugar structures on their surface.
The sheer diversity of the structures and capabilities displayed by complex sugars, together with the fact that they are natural materials
These include food and cosmetics, where they can be used as thickeners or emulsifiers, and the health and pharmaceuticals sectors.
Back to that ketchup and blood comparison: one type of polysaccharide is used to achieve the correct viscosity in ketchup,
while another helps to prevent blood coagulation in dialysis patients. The problem is that the polysaccharides with the most useful properties are produced often by only a very few specific organisms,
therefore, the task was to maximise both the supply of these sugars, and their uses.
Whereas the language of genes famously makes use of just four etters there are more than 20 letters in the language of sugars.
Bringing together biologists, chemists, microbiologists, biochemists, molecular geneticists and biotechnologists from universities, biotech firms and food and pharmaceutical multinationals from around Europe, Polymode has identified now its first eadingand ritingenzymes.
and with various uses in the food and cosmetics industries-into a novel type of carrageenan never seen before.
This is now being evaluated commercially. nzymatically produced designer polysaccharides with defined properties will open up the all but-untapped potential of complex polysaccharides not only for applications in the food and medical sciences
Making the perfect wine is an arduous process at the best of times. It demands a lot of sun, good soil, water and cold temperatures.
Enter the MEDITERRANEAN FOOD and agro industry applications of Solar COOLING technologies-or MEDISCO as it is known. This European commission funded initiative has developed
and tested a refrigeration system driven by solar energy for the food and agro industry in the Mediterranean region.
the wine is kept at the correct temperature required during its production process. This temperature varies depending on the wine typology and time required"
says Prof. Motta. MEDISCO is also proving its worth in tests at a dairy factory in Marrakech, Morocco.
which are in contact with food.''This innovation allows nanoparticles to be incorporated and evenly dispersed in a polymer mould in a very low proportion.
For instance, you may put soft drink bottles in at one end of the process and produce plastic chairs and tables at the other end.
The technology willuse molten salts as heat transfer fluid and willproduce heat and power from solar sourcesintegrated with renewable fuels such asbiomass biogas
With the above in mind, a European research project has developed new environmentally friendly materials that can replace oil-based plastic films used in packaging for food
The CTP worked with partners from various research institutes and the food and packaging industries across six European countries.
and depends entirely on other plants for nutrients. Once a host is infested its growth slows
Food Agriculture and Fisheriesbiotechnology; Nanosciences nanotechnologiesmaterials and new productiontechnologies; Energy; and Environment (includingclimate change. Established in 2010 and due to continue until2014 the project is focused on developing ahighly integrated multipurpose refinery.
But better managed, it could mean more water resources for other basics like drinking, hygiene and cooking.
"Binge eating, chronic pain, and addiction. Three very different medical conditions, all hard to treat.
because it is healthy food. It is like I don't need healthy food. Instead, I devour all kind of unhealthy things.
Because I don't feed know how to, I just eat.""Under study in Barcelona is the complex disease, Binge Eating Disorder,
which leads to a total loss of control when eating. Patients are testing a videogame specially developed to help them to recognise their emotions
and to regain self-control. Fernando Fernández-Aranda is a researcher in Eating Disorders at Bellvitge University Hospital.
He said:""The videogame is proving useful as a complimentary tool for some patients to control certain aspects of their personality, like impulsivity or tolerance to frustration."
and food from existing industries and the processing of upgraded biomass-derived liquids in existing mineral oil refineries.
Because only 2-3%of water is used for cooking and drinking, the researchers decided to limit the filtration scheme
Applications for this kind of materials mix can be found in diverse domains such as the pharmaceutical industry, the food and processing industry, energy production or systems biology.
Everyday products such as coffee, corn flakes, nuts or fertilizer all depend on this field of knowledge known as multi-physics.
#'Foodini'machine prints burgers, pizza The"Foodini, "as it's called, isn't too different from a regular 3d printer,
but instead of printing with plastics, it deploys edible ingredients squeezed out of stainless steel capsules:""It's the same technology,
whereas with food it's different temperatures, consistencies and textures. Also, gravity works a little bit against us,
as food doesn't hold the shape as well as plastic.""The Barcelona-based startup behind the machine says it's the only one of its kind capable of printing a wide range of dishes, from sweet to savory."
"In essence, this is a mini food manufacturing plant shrunk down to the size of an oven, "Kucsma said,
pointing out that at least in the initial stage the printer will be targeted mostly at professional kitchen users,
press a button to print your ravioli. But Natural Machines is quick to point out that it's designed to take care only of the difficult
and time-consuming parts of food preparation that discourage people from cooking at home, and that it promotes healthy eating by requiring fresh ingredients prepared before printing.
Nevertheless, the company is working with major food manufacturers to create prepackaged plastic capsules that can just be loaded into the machine to make food,
even though they assure these will be free of preservatives, with a shelf life limited to five days. The printing process is slow
such as very detailed cake decorations or food arranged in unusual shapes, the Foodini can be useful for recipes that require precision and dexterity, like homemade pizza or filled pasta.
Currently, the device only prints the food, which must be cooked then as usual. But a future model will also cook the preparation
and produce it ready to eat. The idea also comes with a social element too."
That is, if people don't balk at the idea of eating printed food.""We have done tests
and everybody liked the food, "explains Kucsma.""Take the microwave oven, for example: in the 70s, people were a bit fearful about it,
they thought food could be poisoned with radiation or something, but fast forward 30 years, and there's one in every household.
This is real food, with real fresh ingredients, it's just prepared using a new technology."
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Pepper has already been used to sell Nestle coffee machines in Japanese stores. Interested in buying your own Pepper robot?
#Researchers create guilt-free superfood that tastes like bacon As will be familiar to anyone miserably chewing through leaf after leaf of kale in a beleaguered attempt to shed a few pounds,
it's hard to banish thoughts of cheeseburgers, pizza or--many a dieters'Achilles'heel--bacon. But some of those cravings, at least, might soon be banished,
and perhaps more importantly, tastes like bacon, according to its creators.""In Europe, they add the powder to smoothies,
or add flakes onto food, "Langdon says in an article in the University's newspaper."
it tastes like bacon, not seaweed. And it's a pretty strong bacon flavor.""Dulse, which is an"excellent source"of minerals,
vitamins and antioxidants and contains a high percentage of protein, could be the answer we're all looking for,
as well as the Food Innovation Center in Portland, are experimenting with the new ingredient. The acid test will come
when they put it on top of a cheeseburger, thus moving one step closer to attaining the holy grail of a delicious,
What if you could scan a piece of cheese to discover its caloric content or a stray pill to figure out if it a vitamin or your pain medication?
and scans food when you press a button its side. SCIO analyzes whatever you have pointed it at on a molecular level and then reports back its findings to the scanner app.
It can even tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi. The more people who use SCIO the greater that database will eventually become.
The Emergence of Industrialized Dairy Systems in Asia, forecasts that by 2025 countries in the global south will consume 375 million metric tons of milk and dairy products, nearly twice as much as in 1997.
The shift in the Asian diet, which aside from India includes virtually no dairy, has created an emerging market of nearly 3 billion potential new dairy consumers.
nutrition and herd management have resulted in greater efficiency more than a fourfold increase in milk yield and a reduction in farms and cows m
Collectively will be updated daily by an editorial team with stories and information from the worlds of fashion food design architecture technology and more.
The platform#s audience will also be encouraged to submit ideas for the channel around a series of themes that will be refreshed regularly such as future foodies and the smartest city.
#Scientists grow norovirus stomach bug in a dish University of Florida rightoriginal Studyposted by Morgan Sherburne-Florida on November 13 2014researchers have grown for the first time a human norovirus in a cell culture dish taking a step toward developing medications to treat the stomach
A nutrient-rich solution flows through the artificial vessel mimicking the properties of blood. The breast cancer cells inserted individually
and is feared therefore especially in the production of non-heat treated foodstuffs such as raw milk cheeses and dried meats.
and painlessly scan the skin of a subject s palm accurately measures changes in a biomarker known as skin carotenoids in response to an intervention involving a diet enriched in fruits and vegetables.
In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition researchers report that the noninvasive technique tracked skin carotenoid changes over a 28-week period.
That time was divided into distinct dietary phases marked by high and low intake of provided fruit and vegetables along with a phase in
which study participants resumed their usual diets. The palm-reading device which uses resonance Raman spectroscopy (RRS) has the potential to help nutritionists
and improve the diets of children and adults alike.####There is great interest in the development of objective biomarkers of dietary intake especially biomarkers that can be measured noninvasively##says coauthor Susan T. Mayne professor of epidemiology at Yale university and a developer of the device.##
##Many diet interventions lack objective verification that subjects actually changed intakeâ##this research demonstrates that skin carotenoids can serve that purpose.##
Diets rich in fruit and vegetables have been linked to important health outcomes including reductions in cardiovascular disease type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer.
Brenda Cartmel a senior research scientist and lecturer at the Yale School of Public health is a co-author of the paper along with researchers from the USDA/Agricultural research service Grand Forks Human nutrition Research center and the University of Utah.
The resulting biochar which has the consistency of ground coffee was treated then with a saltwater bath to impregnate it with iron.
It s a surprisingly long road from Food and Drug Administration approval of a new drug or technique to doctors actually using the new drug in their practices notes Weiss whose research focuses on how to get doctors to adopt best practices.
Making nutrient-rich vegetables including leafy foods such as spinach or broccoli and orangish vegetables such as carrots even a small part of a child s daily diet reduced bad fats in the body
Fewer than 6 percent of children eat the USDA-recommended multiple servings of nutrient-rich vegetables most days according to the study that is published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
We found though even eating less than a full serving of these vegetables can really have pronounced a effect on children's health Davis says.
One large leafy green salad as a regular part of lunch is enough to make a difference For the study researchers looked at the effects of nutrient-rich vegetables in the diets of 175 overweight
The cells need just the right amount of nutrients to do their job: turning raw materials into heart valves.
and metabolized nutrients and then turned raw collagen into connective tissue. The cells pulled the collagen together
and sugars and we re just starting to scratch the surface she says. So work like this is pretty fundamental.
Current studies support the notion that antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria including methicillin-resistant (MRSA) strains can exchange nutrients with each other
The microbiome of a cystic fibrosis patient s lungs can provide nutrients to these small colony variants
Instead they re a mixed population of organisms that are sharing nutrients. They act like a big group of bullies until you hit them with drugs then they stop sharing resources
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