plumbing the collagen artery into an artificial circulatory system to provide nutrients, oxygen and electrical stimulation to the limb.
Shining red light on skin or cells in a dish gives an instant energy boost that could help heal wounds,
such as using caffeine which does make them swim faster but also seems to be toxic. Gagsteiger is now starting tests of irradiating sperm with the near-infrared light before fertilisation."
the way the intestine stretches as it moves food along, "Fouke-Abel explains. Cells plucked from a human intestine will be put into a tiny chamber around that membrane,
U s. agencies including the Food and Drug Administration have also been looking into the process.
"It will die as soon as you remove that essential nutrient, "Church says. The scientists say this radical re-engineering actually makes these synthetic life forms safer,
Other uses might include engineering oil-eating bacteria to use on a spill. They could be killed off
Countless acres of genetically engineered crops would need to be fed this manmade ingredient, from a crop duster or by some other means.
#Ebola Vaccine Hailed As'Game Changer'In Fight Against The Virus Doctors Without Borders is calling it a"champagne moment."
preliminary results of this vaccine trial from Guinea,"says Dr. Jesse Goodman, an infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University, who once led vaccine development at the U s. Food and Drug Administration.
Levine said the Food and Drug Administration initially wanted to take a"watch and wait"approach
The terahertz technology may also prove useful in discovering concealed goods in the retail industry or for non-destructive monitoring, for example quality control in drugs or food.
A microbial contamination on a contact agar plate with a 405-nm light source in the background.
"said Leeds professor Gin Jose, who developed the technology.""This will allow people to self-regulate
#This Sheet Of Rubber Generates Power As It Stretches It may look like a Fruit Roll up from a kid's lunch box,
as well as their food source, calcium lactate. The powdery substances are mixed then into wet concrete before it gets poured into place.
"and start eating the food. As a result, the bacteria excrete a hard limestone filler
these bacteria can stay dormant for 200 years without food, potentially extending the life of a concrete structure for decades past its expiration date.
But unlike a glass bottle that gets recycled or food that hits a compost heap,
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that medical device company Wicab is allowed to market a new device that will help the blind ee.
By filling a metallic waffle-like nanostructure with liquid crystal, and sandwiching it between layers of plastic,
The amount of voltage applied to the liquid crystal sitting in the waffle wells alters its molecular orientation,
#Terminator-Like Vision Could Help Robots Do Our Dishes If the above gif looks familiar it probably because it looks eerily similar to this:
while they navigate our complex world. deally we want robots to be cleaning our dishes at some point in the future.
The sunscreen you buy at your local pharmacy contains ingredients to block two different types of light from the sunv-A,
Though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been slow to approve new sunscreens in the past, Chemical and Engineering News notes,
Pavegen CEO and Founder Laurence Kemball-Cook shares, ut we need several hundred thousand footsteps to allow the vehicle to drive 20 minutes within London busiest streets. avegen electricity
and is headed currently by Laurence Kemball-Cook, a 29-year old industrial engineer and graduate of Loughborough University.
The SALT (Sustainable Alternative Lighting) lamp offers a healthier solution with a saltwater-powered battery.
#Robot Tongue Identifies The Correct Beer Every Time machines mimicking a human's sense of taste are going on a beer-tasting binge.
pouring beer onto wagging, mechanical tongues.""It's just a bunch of wires and buttons and computers,"said María Luz Rodríguez-Méndez, a professor of inorganic chemistry at University of Valladolid in Spain."
"However it looks, Méndez and colleagues developed an electronic tongue that accurately distinguished between four styles of lager beer 100 percent of the time.
A variety of screen-printed sensors"taste"electrochemical compounds in the beer to predict the brews'color index and alcoholic strength 76 percent and 86 percent of the time.
One potential application of electronic tongues is to help the industry produce their signature drinks more efficiently,
This means that one expert must always test the beer before it leaves the factory.""But your experts don't work at 3 a m
Electronic sensors could share a supporting role by continuing to check the beer while the brewmasters are sleeping."
sensors nestled in the taste buds react to molecules in the food and send the appropriate signals to the brain:
this taste is explained from coffee Méndez. You compare sensory response patterns for every mouthful of food,
"then you decide it's a banana because you've tasted it before.""The study's electronic tongue emulates a simpler version of this process.
antioxidants produced by the grains and ingredients that ferment into beer, such as barley and hops.
Phenols give beer its bitter taste, determine its golden color and conduct electricity. The electronic tongue distinguishes between lagers by detecting the different concentrations of polyphenols.
A beer is classified as a lager based on the type of yeast and a low fermentation temperature.
Méndez and her colleagues tested the electronic tongue on 25 types of commercial beer across four lager styles.
The researchers chose the styles based on their distinct alcohol strength and the European Beer Convention color value.
The four styles were alcohol-free beer, which has low polyphenol levels; Pilsners which have a light yellow to golden color;
the computer can then compare new beer samples against the established, learned signal patterns. They tested each of the 25 beer samples seven times.
Many existing tongues using an array of sensors only get one data point for each sensor,
The researchers immerse the electrodes in beer and track the electrochemical signals as they turn up the voltage,
the electronic tongue was able to place the commercial beer sample into the correct lager category with 100 percent accuracy.
It also predicted the beer's color with 76 percent accuracy and its alcohol content with 84 percent accuracy."
Plants remain a proven and efficient production system delivering Kg amounts per hectare of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) at relatively low cost.
One way is to have a sandwich comprising a surface that is conducting juxtaposed with a bulk that is insulating.
#Audi has made a synthetic, high-grade fuel from plant sugars Just last month, German car manufacturer Audi invented a carbon-neutral diesel fuel,
the fuel is produced by converting corn-derived glucose-a renewable source of biomass sugar-into isobutane gas.
With previous research showing that cooking in an iron pan increased the iron content of food,
or soup for 10 minutes, remove from the heat, and add a generous dash of lemon juice to foster iron absorption.
because fish is our everyday food.""The fish are now being used by about 2, 500 Cambodian families and another 9,
"They have a really poor diet-a big plate of white rice and maybe a small cut of fish,
"That's their two meals a day. And it's just not meeting their nutritional requirements."
With a huge binary brain to draw on and no need for either food or sleep,
Schouenborg is also working on his own gelatin-based'needle'for delivering electrodes into the brain a
recognise food calories from a photo and even cook by watching Youtube videos.""With appropriate uses of the deep learning technologies, we could be a further step closer to the true human intelligence,
or the diet, but the fact that you have to do them all several times a day every day for the rest of your life",
The Argus II received limited Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in 2013, but this clinical trial set out to show that the device could be used more broadly by testing it over three years.
"The sensing component of the artificial neuron senses a change in chemical signals in one dish,
"This electrical signal is translated next into the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in a second dish,
and mustard leaf. A pesticide free farming process-the results of 18 months of research and preparation-has been designed to produce crops with the least amount of energy expenditure possible.
the project backers claim theyl be able to deliver produce rom farm to fork in under four hours and all without the usual environmental impact of truck-based food transportation across England motorways.
The farm will first supply local restaurants through market distribution, but will later sell directly to the public.
it heartening to see food innovation like Growing Underground take off. Or should that be take root
The research focussed on the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, known as THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), which is not only responsible for the high associated with the drug-plus hallucinations, delusions, memory loss,
you're no doubt familiar with the nightly ritual of plugging it in to charge overnight so it doesn run out of juice halfway through the day.
#Alzheimer's plaques reduced by targeting sugar attachment to the BACE1 enzyme A major factor contributing to Alzheimer's disease is the formation of pathogenic A?
and Naoyuki Taniguchi at RIKEN in collaboration with Tamao Endo and Shigeo Murayama at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology showed that much of the BACE1 found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients is modified by the attachment of a particular sugar with the help of the enzyme
because BACE1 without the sugar is destroyed and cannot interact with APP. Using a difficult procedure called subcellular fractionation they determined that sugared BACE1 is located near APP within cells.
However if the sugar is attached not to it it is found further from APP and closer to lysosomes--subcellular structures that degrade unneeded molecules.
This research highlights the importance of glycosylation--the modification of proteins by sugars. Far from being rare it is the most common way in
although a sugar change is considered often just a marker for disease or a specific cell type our team has demonstrated clearly the functional role of a glycan during AD development.
The sections are stacked then with solid electrolytes in between for a multilayer sandwich with multiple microsupercapacitors.
and manipulation movements required for cooking by watching online cooking videos. The key breakthrough is that the robots can think for themselves determining the best combination of observed motions that will allow them to efficiently accomplish a given task.
But cooking is complex in terms of manipulation the steps involved and the tools you use. If you want to cut a cucumber for example you need to grab the knife move it into place make the cut
Although there was a glimmer of hope for an end in sight to the Ebola epidemic these countries were reported to be on the brink of a major food crisis.
The United nations Food and agriculture organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) revealed in December that the Ebola outbreak had left nearly half a million people in the three countries severely food insecure:
unless urgent measures are taken to significantly enhance access to food and safeguard crop and livestock production in these countries
FAO and WFP stated that the Ebola epidemic has caused a significant shock to the food
and trade and rising food prices are triggering the food crisis. Experts participating in the Global Rice Market
For clinical relevance it remained necessary to more fully investigate intact components of function such as the ability to form a healthy barrier while still absorbing nutrition or specific mechanisms of electrolyte exchange.
which involves a com bi na tion of ther a pies with neg a tive side effects.
In addition to improving nutrition, Cedars-Sinai is also using new specially designed mattresses to help improve sleep patterns
normal rats insulin-resistant rats fed a high-fat diet and rats with genetically modified insulin receptors.
or too many nutrients from the mother can lead to a person becoming obese or diabetic in adulthood,
"said study co-author James Cook, director of MU's Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory and the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute's Division of Research."
"Cook.""Like a normal joint, the implanted tissue can renew itself, resulting in decreased physical limitations to the patient
Neuroprotectin D-1 discovered in the Bazan lab is derived from docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) an essential omega 3 fatty acid found in fish oil.
Researchers at the Feinstein Institute know how to make cartilage from a mixture of cells called chondrocytes nutrients to feed them and collagen
Medical research can take years to move from bench to bedside as can US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
The amount of time to reduce glucose levels following a meal is the same as in a normal rat
sponsored by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), that used a new stent graft that can repair the aortic aneurysm without the need to open the chest."
They discovered a novel link between food intake during the early stages of infection and the outcome of the disease, identifying two molecular pathways that could serve as new targets for treatment."
"We have known for a long time that nutrition can affect the course of infectious disease, but we were surprised at how rapidly a mild reduction in food intake could improve outcome in a mouse malaria model,
"said senior author James Mitchell, associate professor of genetics and complex diseases.""However, the real importance of this work is the identification of unexpected molecular pathways underlying cerebral malaria that we can now target with existing drugs."
or nutritionally by reducing food intake during the first two days of infection, protected against cerebral malaria.
or salt-and-pepper patterns seen in some organisms when cells tell their neighbors to be not
#Connection between childhood adversity psychiatric disorders seen at cellular level Mitochondria convert molecules from food into energy that can be used by cells
A cancer tumour deprived of oxygen and nutrients becomes dormant and is made thereby harmless. If it receives a supply from the bloodstream
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science the paper details how lack of the Ngly1 protein results in the incomplete removal of the sugar portion of glycoproteins--a process called deglycosylation.
which can be changed through the addition or subtraction of sugar chains. When proteins are made not correctly they are sent to be broken down in the cytosol.
NGLY1 is a cytosolic enzyme that removes the sugar chains from specific types of glycoproteins
and ENGASE is another cytosolic enzyme in animal cells that degrades the free sugars left behind.
and how much of the undegraded portion still had attached sugar chains. As expected they found sugar chains were removed not from the model protein in the double knockout cells
First removal of sugar chains by ENGASE appeared to have created a form of the protein that in the absence of Ngly1 could not be degraded properly.
when the model protein was sugared de by ENGASE one sugar molecule remained attached to the protein.
as long as the incomplete removal of sugars by ENGASE was prevented. People with the NGLY1 mutation have many severe symptoms from delayed development
But the Utah researchers found no evidence of fish insulin in the venom of five species of fish-eating cone snails that are ambush hunters that attack with a harpoon-like organ.
#X-ray scanning to guarantee meat tenderness Arraypackaged meat products can be found today on fresh food counters with labels declaring their level of tenderness and tenderization process.
and when they added other ingredients to the mix to make it more conductive. The result again was a significant improvement--they could finely tune the energy level of that layer to closely match the layer beneath it,
features fermentation and ethanol yields that set a new standard for conversion of biomass sugars from pretreated corn stover--the non-edible portion of corn crops such as the stalk--converting up to 97 percent
of the plant sugars into fuel. Researchers announced that while conventional yeast leaves more than one-third of the biomass sugars unused in the form of xylose,
Mascoma's C5 FUEL#efficiently converts this xylose into ethanol, and it accomplishes this feat in less than 48 hours.
and convert sugars from lignocellulosic biomass has accelerated greatly the translation of basic research outcomes to a commercial product,
"Although cellulosic biomass such as corn stover, wheat straw and bagasse (the fibrous remains after sugar is extracted from sugarcane
because of recalcitrance--a plant's resistance to releasing sugars for conversion to alcohol--it is much more difficult to utilize than corn.
While most processing methods simply convert cellulose to sugar, this new approach also converts hemicellulose,
which significantly increases overall sugar yield and thereby increases the level of ethanol produced. In fact
and Lallemand Biofuels and Distilled Spirits.""The next step for BESC will be to demonstrate and again validate the application of the consolidated bioprocessing approach using thermophilic,
#Intravenous nutrition source could reduce side effects of chemotherapy Platinum-based drugs, including cisplatin, carboplatin and oxyplatin, have been used to treat cancer for more than 35 years.
a fat emulsion that is FDA-approved for use as an intravenous nutrition source, reduced the amount of nanoparticles that were being cleared by the liver and spleen by about 50 percent.
The first three are known all pathogens to infect humans through the food chain or via hospital-acquired infections.
Arrayarraythe researchers'printing surface consists of a sandwich-like structure made up of two thin films of silver separated by a"spacer"film of silica.
"The mice had been on a high-fat diet for three months and were already showing evidence of organ dysfunction,
It is made from gelatin-based biomaterials reinforced with nanoparticles and seeded with cells, and it mimics the anatomical microenvironment of lymphoid tissue.
and now makes well water in the area unsafe to drink. Array"After the newly discovered bacteria interact with uranium compounds in water
''This work represents a stunning discovery of the grand and expansive genome rearrangements that occurred in beneficial bacteria that evolved to preserve foods,
'The research was funded by NC State start-up funds, the North carolina Agriculture Foundation and Dupont Nutrition and Health h
and perhaps eating disorders, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, Tourette's syndrome, and Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. However studying mda neurons and neocortical neurons in isolation does not reveal much data about how these cells actually interact in these conditions.
Using a special container called an"ibidi wound healing dish, "which contains two chambers separated by a removable barrier,
and her team determined that diet, genetics and other variables played very small roles in Vitamin d status,
from the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, is the first to identify a link between extreme endurance exercise
enabling in-situ measurements in various security and health relevant fields including biology, medicine, food control, and pharmacy.
#Sediment makes it harder for baby Nemo to breathe easy Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral reef Studies at James Cook University have discovered that suspended sediment damages fish gills
such as the production of food, textiles, detergents, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals where environmentally friendly methods are of ever increasing importance."
and dipping it into a solution containing metal salts. These molecules then glom onto the self-assembled polymer,
The Argus II received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval as a Humanitarian Use Device (HUD) in 2013,
the research team must now try to figure out just what is happening with the sugar molecules they have found to associate with the ESP1 protein.
One idea is that the sugar molecules are being stripped away before the equatorial segment region condenses."
main courses and desserts in a restaurant menu to create a multitude of dinner options, materials that perform different single functions can be combined in a mix
"The sensing component of the artificial neuron senses a change in chemical signals in one dish,
This electrical signal is translated next into the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in a second dish,
which a microbe uses nutrients and generates energy to live and reproduce. It typically involves complex biochemical processes implemented through the orchestration of metabolic reactions and gene regulation,
"It's like taking an ice cream scoop and quickly pulling out material before it gets heated,
identification of gutter oils mainly involves detection of certain food residue markers or toxic and carcinogenic chemicals in the sample.
It may also prove useful in discovering concealed goods in the retail industry or for non-destructive monitoring, for example quality control in drugs or food.
including the sugar in maize and sugarcane. Fermentation turns the sugar into lactic acid, which in turn is a building block for polylactic acid.
PLA degrades after a number of years in certain environments. If it is collected and sorted correctly,
simple answers that appear on test paper indicating the presence of infection or contamination in people, food or the environment t
By feeding the animals a diet high in fat and salt over the course of a year,
Our model is a good predictor of diet-induced atherosclerosis in females.""A next step could be to study the affected heart tissue to find abnormal biochemical reactions in the cellular pathways involved in glycated proteins and severe coronary disease.
"Working with Professor Fawaz Haj of the UC Davis nutrition department, Bettaieb found that key molecular signatures associated with diabetes
"Currently, the research team and KAIST's spin-off company, TESLAS, Inc.,have been conducting pilot projects to apply DCRS in various places such as cafes and offices.
by a process requiring the introduction of a cocktail of four genes into differentiated cells.
they need to be supplied with oxygen and nutrients. For their growth and the formation of blood vessels, so-called growth factors are required.
Acidic foods such as fresh-cut fruits and ready-to-eat meat can be preserved under blue LEDS in combination with chilling temperatures without requiring further chemical treatments that are needed commonly for food preservation.
Existing studies on the antibacterial effect of LED illumination mostly evaluated its efficacy by adding photosensitisers to the food samples
which are typically related to food products, can affect the antibacterial effect of LEDS. In this study, the team placed three major foodborne pathogens--Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli o157:
"Taken together, our two studies point to a potential for preserving acidic foods in combination with chilling temperatures without chemical treatments.
or minimally-processed foods without relying on chemicals such as acidulants and artificial preservatives to preserve food products."
"The team's findings can potentially be applied to food chillers or cold supply chain to preserve fresh-cut fruits,
ready-to-eat seafood such as sushi and smoked salmon, as well as chilled meat products. This technology can also be useful for retail settings,
spanning hawker centres, food courts to supermarkets, as well as for food suppliers.""The next step for us is to apply this LED TECHNOLOGY to real food samples such as fresh-cut fruits,
as well as ready-to-eat or raw sea foods and meats products, to investigate whether LED illumination can effectively kill pathogenic bacteria without deterioration of food products,
"said Asst Prof Yuk Y
#How the lung repairs its wounds Our lungs are exposed permanently to harmful environmental factors that can damage
or even destroy their cells. In a specific regenerative process these injured cells must be replaced as soon as possible.
In collaboration with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry, scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have gained now,
The new technology, developed by Professor Gin Jose and a team at the University of Leeds
which generate mixed and sometimes unusable sugar structures. Therefore, the production of such pharmaceuticals has so far been extremely laborious, lengthy, of varying quality and hence also very expensive.
and produce more uniform sugar structures faster and more cheaply for many different types of pharmaceuticals;
"Sugar structures are like a tree made from building blocks --and you could say that we have found a faster
"We have seen previously examples of optimised sugar structures making pharmaceuticals up to a hundred times more effective. One example is antibodies for cancer patients,
circulating oxygenated blood and nutrients into the liver at body temperature, allowing it to improve and repair itself, potentially leading to better outcomes for patients.
proteins and nutrients into the injured donor lungs, mimicking normal physiological conditions. This makes it possible for the injured cells to begin repairing themselves,
#Cooking up altered states Churning raw milk sufficiently creates butter. Squirting lemon juice coagulates it into curd.
Yet butter and curd are not solids because in both cases, the aggregated molecules still maintain consistent distances from each other,
Just as a cook working with a known recipe alters the flavor of a dish by varying the amount of its constituents
and changing the amount of cooking time, experimental scientists do similar things with materials to try
Some Boston restaurants sought to coax customers out of hibernation for a meal or drink on Sunday evening,
One South Boston restaurant added the hashtag##cabin fever#to its Twitter messages. The area's deepest snowfall on Sunday was the 20 inches (50 cm) recorded in Ipswich, Massachusetts,
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