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and volcanic ash is still intact. Electro-accretion oe essentially sticking concrete-like minerals on galvanized underwater structures oe means electrified steel mesh could eventually be used to reinforce
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Think of how trees share common technologies (leaves, trunk, roots) adapted to different kinds of environments
which in turn, enriches the food for the trees. In the near future, we will begin to tap into the technological potential of this metabolic diversity
While trees are complex organic structures that require substantial infrastructures and resources to nurture them, biotechnology has revealed that multicellular organisms can perform similar processes oe but even more powerfully.
they are much easier to keep and much more vigorous than trees. Indeed, architects are already proposing that microorganisms may power our cities.
-which enables us to grow organisms that do not exist in nature by manipulating their DNA oe to create trees that produce a natural light-producing protein usually found in jellyfish.
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and forwards over the tree-tops firing pulses of laser light at the ground below.
such as in Caracol, some of the pulses will hit the top of tree canopy, some the middle, others the forest floor.
Both the Chases and Fisher teams admit that cruising over the tree-tops in a plane does not totally supplant the need to get up close and personal with a site.
which can now only be glimpsed in satellite imagery on tree-cleared landscapes. He also believes it will also allow us to understand ancient African migrations and cultures,
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and prune the fruit trees he has in his backyard. But he also likes to watch sports on TV.
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Much like the seemingly endless iterations of coffee at Starbucks, food from restaurants and fast food outlets will come in over a million variations.
For instance, jacking into a tree, we will someday be able to oetrain a tree to have its branches grow into the shape of end tables,
coffee tables, chairs, or rocking chairs. Once these unusual branches are fully grown, farmers can walk up to the tree and harvest the rocking chairs by cutting them down,
similar to harvesting apples or cherries. Eventually we will be able to oegrow our own clothing,
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Virtual currencies, from Microsoft Points to Linden Dollars, encourage oein-world trade, incurring credit card and banking fees only when their users buy in.
A form of money used in an online virtual world, such as oelinden Dollars in Linden Labs Second life or oegold pieces in Blizzard Entertainments World of Warcraft.
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of course#o launch The Manny, the debut novel of his daughter, Holly, who lightly satirizes the lives
#Holly Peterson and I spoke several times about how the super-affluence of recent years has changed the meaning of wealth.
and the Aspen Institute s Ideas Festival (cosponsored by this magazine), for the more policy-minded.
#At last summer s Aspen Ideas Festival, Michael Splinter, CEO of the Silicon valley green-tech firm Applied materials, said that
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Tree-Jackers Plant and tree alteration specialists, who manipulate growth patterns, create grow-to-fit wood products, color-changing leaves,
Plant Psychologists An entire profession dedicated to undo the damage caused by the Tree-Jackers 37.
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#Anyone who has an apple tree growing in their yard knows how difficult it is to grow one that is worthy of eating straight off the tree.
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from someone buying a cup of coffee to someone trading a trillion dollars of credit default derivatives, is done in software.
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will admittedly be used mostly for buying cups of coffee and snatched lunchtime sandwiches, but when Oranges head of mobile payments, Jason Rees, calls it the beginning of a new order#,hes not wrong.
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not just the trees If you have to rasterize an image in order to analyze it, any sort of correlation will take a long time.
By compiling foodpairing trees#its technology can identify vegetable or seafood ingredients that reinforce the flavor of different meats,
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That did not daunt Ms. Bruno, now an executive at Peet s Coffee. I had grown up using Macs
and an insulated coffee thermos. Mr. Zarate fared no better at one quarterly meeting for employees.
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using the heat absorbed from your pants pocket. 2. The New Coffee Soon, coffee isn t going to taste like coffee#at least not the dark,
ashy roasts we drink today. Big producers want uniform taste, and a dark roast makes that easy:
Improvements like these have allowed roasters to make coffee that tastes like Seville oranges or toasted almonds or berries,
coffee will lighten, and dark roasts may just become a relic of the past. 3. Analytical Undies Your spandex can now subtly nag you to work out.
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#Anyone who has an apple tree growing in their yard knows how difficult it is to grow one that is worthy of eating straight off the tree.
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Self-lighting trees from California s Glowing Plant Lab illuminate the numerous clean wide promenades.
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and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids. They have blind spots, leg cramps, seizures, and heart attacks.
spill coffee in their laps, and flip over their cars. Of the ten million accidents that Americans are in every year,
The ride takes him over surface streets and freeways, old salt flats and pine-green foothills, across the gusty blue of San francisco bay,
It may confuse the shadow of a tree for the edge of the road, or reflected headlights for lane markers.
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to put down that coffee or phone, and refocus.##oeit could be 20 seconds; it could be 10 seconds,
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Is it possible to add a water extracting ground spike next to every plant or tree in our garden?
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and large amounts of beetle-killed trees have created#oeperfect storm#conditions for multiple wildfires to rage across the State.
Some of this can be attributed to factors such as beetle-kill trees, an increasingly mobile society, urbanization of mountain communities, etc.
Extinguishing a fire under several layers of tree canopy will also be a challenge. Every kind of tree will likely require a different navigation strategy,
and some densely covered grounds may be entirely unreachable until it s too late. Operating drones day and night through inclement conditions like wind
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which the farmers then plant trees. And in the shadows cast by the trees, they grow fruits and vegetables.
Greening projects are also succeeding in Mali Tanzania, and Ethiopia. Reij argues that these limited successes can spread to other#oedrylands#in Africa.
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said Kevin Morishige, a former engineer at Cisco, Hewlett-packard and Palm. LCD s dominance is already under threat from lighter Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDS) that don t need backlighting,
Corning s Willow Glass However, some manufacturers are already creating lighter and more flexible glass.
It is also now promoting Willow Glass which can be as thin as a sheet of paper
Initially, Willow will be used as a coating for products like solar panels, but it is expected eventually to create curved products.
Apple s iwatch concept A key selling point for Willow is more efficient production which involves so-called roll-to-roll manufacturing,
But the commercialization of Willow as a flexible product is some way off, James Clappin, who heads Corning s glass technology group
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We provide the coffee & donuts and show a movie. The movies range from older classics to comedy to adventure to newer releases.
#Boyle County Public library Laurel County Public library: Vintage dancers Trapping and hunting Mah-jongg#oewhisk Me Away#cooking series Creepy Foods for Halloween World Religion Discussion Series Holocaust Discussion Series Adult Pottery Class
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Perhaps we would want flavored water like cherry water, tea water, coffee water, or chocolate water.
and much more. 2. Water Harvesting Irrigation Spikes Will it someday be possible to add atmospheric water harvesting ground-spikes next to every plant or tree in our garden?
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Kansas 125,902 89 Arvada, Colo. 106,965 88 Downey, Calif. 111,807 88 Pembroke Pines, Fla. 155,578 88 Torrance, Calif. 145,443 88
77 Palm Bay, Fla. 102,814 77 Port St. Lucie, Fla. 163,748 77 Palmdale, Calif. 151,841 75 Victorville, Calif. 115,069 73
. 101,339 68 Thousand Oaks, Calif. 126,570 68 Elk Grove, Calif. 151,639 67 Frisco, Texas 116,944 61 Naperville, Ill. 142,143 56
enjoy coffee from free Starbucks dispensers and Coke machines rigged to dispense drinks for 25 cents.
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Plant-Jackers and Tree-Jackers Plant and tree alteration specialists, who manipulate growth patterns, create grow-to-fit wood products, color-changing leaves, personalized fruit, etc. 129.
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I help manage a coffee farm and our yields as well as world prices can vary as much as 30 percent or more from year to year.
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In combination with Gum arabic (hardened sap obtained from the acacia tree) it can also delay the ripening of bananas.
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Learning from Trees is a classic on biomimetics. Mattheck s lifelong love affair with trees has led to many important innovations in engineering design.
One of these considers the junction where the branch of a tree meets the trunk.
Mattheck said the curvature around this junction was designed very cleverly to minimise the concentration of stress that occurs
He suggested that the tree was sensitive to stress and so as it grew would deliberately place material in such a way as to minimise stress.
He developed a computer programme to simulate tree growth and the result was a fantastic reduction in stress concentration allowing for more slender components.
and actually look at trees I don t think Mattheck is right. I don t think trees are doing
what he thinks they are doing and proving it would be quite difficult. But of course it doesn t matter
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and paper company is clear-cutting trees Carter Roberts president and CEO of WWF said in a statement.
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dead trees and deep pits filled with murky water. Now the government is tightening the screws on illegal mining,
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That is the strategy of Ginkgo Bioworks, a four-year-old synthetic biology company in Boston, Massachusetts, that develops made-to-order microbes to churn out marketable chemicals.
For accurate billing and theft protection, Gingko needs to control that use, so it is developing
supplied by Ginkgo, in its fermentation medium. The approach could even be used in nanotechnology, by making engineered nanobots that are dependent on a proprietary raw material.
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planting crops under fertilizer trees, such as Faidherbia albida, which provide nutrients to the soil below.
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and apples trees were becoming infected again. Breeders were back to square one. Even armed with modern breeding techniques and 15 Â known defence genes in the apple family
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Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.
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the cracks on the back of the phone are shedding small shards of glass into my palm. 12:20:
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The least environmentally friendly part of the bookmaking process isn't necessarily the loss of trees.
The trees themselves aren't of one type; partly by virtue of paper's origin in castoffs and partly because it doesn't much matter
what kind of wood pulp you use paper is made from a mix of softwood and hardwood big trees and small trees all kinds of stuff.
Conservatree estimates that it takes about 24 trees to make one ton of non-recycled printing paper
It takes a lot of energy to cut down trees process them into pulp strain them press them heat them print them
The more wood products that are used the more trees that are planted. Companies that supply wood plant more than enough trees to cover very high future growth.
It takes so long for trees to mature they really don't have a choice. If something unexpected comes along
and causes an increased demand for wood they have to be able to meet that supply
So something like this that could cause an increase in demand for paper could mean a good deal more trees planted.
Trees which will pull out CO2 over decades before they are finally cut down themselves. Calculating just how many new trees are planted over
what might not have happened without the increased demand would be extremely difficult. Also some of those trees will be cut down sooner than others
so who knows how much CO2 they will actually pull out. Etc. etc. While I read online all the time
FYI'cause you don't get out of The City much paper is made from a renewable resource called trees.
It's hard to imagine anything more sustainable than the fast growing trees used to make paper. laurenra7
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The good news is trees are a renewable resource and can be replanted. Better agricultural techniques that accompany rising wealth lead to better land management.
and grow trees fast enough to meet the paper demands of 10 billion person population. We are generating trash at a huge rate as well.
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The mangroves growing along the shore around Palau are so dense that aluminum wreckage from aircraft has been found sitting on top of the tree canopy about 30 feet up.
Bentprop calculates that eight American planes including A b-24 bomber remain hidden in Palau's western lagoon.
Though it isn't an American plane Scannon is pleased with the discovery. It's a very unusual aircraft one of the rarest archaeological planes you will find he says.
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Coffee-sized machines 3d-print algae foodstuffs-precursor so we can handle the texture-hurdle. z=textstyle-frac {3}
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There are still places out there wherein the classes are held still in session under trees and thatched huts.
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#The Odd Way Beavers Impact Climate Changewhen the industrious beaver scurries around being its toothy self cutting down trees
I have a hard time believing that cutting down trees and burying them in water will have a net negative impact on the level of carbon in the area.
All vegetation (trees brush plants) are killed in this pond area created. Wildlife/insects in this newly created pond area move
Beavers continue to cut down trees and brush AFTER their dam and ponds are built-yes the destruction exceeds the pond area.
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If you put a steamy cup of coffee in the refrigerator it wouldn't immediately turn cold.
Large trees however could survive for several decades thanks to slow metabolism and substantial sugar stores.
and most everything else including big trees contrary to what the author of the article suggests âÂ#Âbecause of the below zero temps.
The Giant sequoia?<<B>Evolution favors life but this favoritism is certainly not species specific.</</B>All species will eventually become extinct this can not be compensated for through the discovery of âÂ#Âoelost knowledgeã¢Â# of some long dead tribe nor is there any evidence to suggest otherwise.
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I don't have enough trees and bushes to absorb them. And that's the unusual thing.
@mjforrestyou do realize that the CO2 uptake of trees pales in comparison to that of algae.
Not to mention the replacement of those trees with other plants that absorb CO2. Not to mention that the CO2 helps plants grow to feed the massive number of humans On earth. tripletiote and brian144
and caught in fences and trees! Such a beautifl job of decorating! Viva La Basura!
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/id=hcf@Listenup 1. Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste http://www. scientificamerican. com/article. cfm?
id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste2. I do agree we shall go for clean renewable energy
Just Google radioactive coal ash (without quotes) and you'll learn the truth about coal.
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A tree blown down wires ravaged by wind a flooded power facility each event had rippled out to affect homes far from the point of failure.
A single tree felled by a storm like Sandy can cut off power to thousands. The existing U s. electric grid has a linear structure.
That's why a single felled tree can cut power to thousands of customers. And that's how overgrown trees brushing high-voltage lines in Ohio could black out 50 million people along the East Coast in 2003.
One way to reduce the impact of any individual failure is to replace the linear structure with a looped one.
A tree hits the line. In the old linear system all the customers beyond the fault point would lose power;
A tree blown down wires ravaged by wind a flooded power facility each event had rippled out to affect homes far from the point of failure.
Just cut damn trees 15 feets on each side of each power line. It was Nikola Tesla who made the grid of today not Thomas Edison.
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instead in the amount of radioactive carbon trapped in the annual growth rings of some of the world's oldest trees.
Since trees take in both carbon-14 and its stable relative carbon-12 the relative levels of carbon-14 in their growth rings give scientists a way of measuring the amount of high-energy particles entering Earth's atmosphere in a given year.
When analyzing two ancient Japanese cedars last year the scientists found that the amount of carbon-14 present in their 775 AD growth rings was shockingly large.
which could then go on to form the carbon-14 present in such abundance in the Japanese cedars.
tree ring studies and sedimentary cores can often be used to identify variations in the atmospheric concentrations of whichever isotope is being used
Buzz70. comrobot i guess the record they were speaking of is the one from old Japanese cedars.
Cedars are known to reach 2000+years even in other parts of the world. 3000 years must be pretty much the max though.
Shouldn't it be pretty easy for them to expose some 775 A d. soil in the neighborhood of their 3000 year old trees
The tree-ring record actually goes back 12000 years and includes measurements from thousands of currently living forests as well as lots of long-dead trees that have been preserved in bogs and other decay-proof environments.
I mentioned the 3000-year record because for this study the researchers had to be able to see how carbon-14 levels changed from one year to the next
but the 12000-year record has only a five year resolution (measurements were taken from every fifth tree-ring;
and obtained annual tree-ring data for those other two events and it turned out that the carbon-14 spikes occurred over a few years
Also@monkeybuttons while it's true that carbon-14 dating isn't perfectly precise this study was based on tree rings
Yes they were measuring the carbon-14 in tree-rings but they weren't using the carbon-14 to tell them how long ago the event happened.
the reason scientists amassed this giant carbon record from trees in the first place is so that they could find out how carbon-14 inputs changed over time
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the perpetual moisture warmth and rich soil lead to extravagant growth of hundreds of varieties of tropical grasses plants flowers vines and trees furnishing favorable harbor for the insects;
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In a neighboring village women cooked circuit boards curbside in woks and children played atop ash heaps.
but as more manufacturers have embraced his near-virgin product his plastics are appearing in more high-end applications like Nespresso coffee machines and Electrolux vacuum cleaners.
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Beams of wood usually spruce are set down side by side in layers with each layer perpendicular to the one beneath it creating a wood board up to a foot thick.
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and insects are suited perfectly for environments where you have dynamic obstructions he trees are moving the branches are moving.
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Dr. Gee however has applied now successfully microct to visualize silicified conifer seed cones as old as 150 million years without cutting sawing
Because each specimen is precious the main goal of this research was to study the internal structure of fossil conifer seed cones without destroying
Pinaceae--the pine family Araucariaceae--a family of coniferous trees currently found only in the Southern hemisphere and Cheirolepidiaceae--a now-extinct family of conifers known only from the Mesozoic.
This tells us that 150 million years ago the ancient forests of western North america consisted of members of these three families.
The fossil cones of the Araucariaceae from Utah confirm that this family which now grows naturally in Australasia
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In Eastern temperate forests like those in Great smoky mountains national park the most sensitive elements of the ecosystem are the hardwood trees
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#Seeing the forest and the trees: Panoramic, very-high-resolution, time-lapse photography for plant and ecosystem researchever wonder what plants do
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The technique developed by Dr. Annemie Van der Linden and her laboratory at the University of Antwerp in Belgium will be one of the first published in Jove Behavior a new section of the video journal that focuses on observational and experimental techniques that seek to understand human and animal
By utilizing a high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging apparatus (fmri) Dr. Van der Linden and her colleagues can image the brains of live birds in a noninvasive environment.
and to a lesser extent on mice Dr. Van der Linden explains. Thus far songbird brains have been studied using electrophysiological and histological techniques.
The Van der Linden laboratory hopes to use this technique to conduct experiments that be done with humans.
and reproduce behavioral experiments such as bird fmri techniques as described in Dr. Van der Linden's article which are both novel and technically complex.
Proud to be included in this significant new section Dr. Van der Linden says MRI imaging techniques should in the near future lead to major conceptual advances in the study of how the brain changes behavior
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Just as tree rings record the environment in which a tree grew traces of barium in the layers of a primate tooth can tell the story of
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The original article was written by Holly Evarts. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. Journal Reference e
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At Aalto University a research team led by Assistant professor Hele Savin is conducting studies on crystalline silicon solar cells
and technological compatibility with the manufacturing technologies currently used by the semiconductor industry Savin explains.
According to Savin the researchers are motivated in their work by the fact that the manufacturing technology players are major corporations in the industry
One goal of the research led by Savin is to find ways to produce equally efficient solar cells using the less expensive but impure silicon rather than the more expensive purified silica.
Hele Savin has been granted major funding for this research by the European Research Council (ERC. Story Source:
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technique called PALM--for Photo-Activated Localization Microscopy--the researchers have found a way to improve the collective catalytic activity of enzyme cocktails that can boost the yields of sugars for making fuels.
We're the first to use PALM to study the interplay of enzyme activity and substrate heterogeneity says Liphardt an expert in PALM technology.
This enables us to quantify how and where enzymes are binding to the cellulose. Working with cotton--a well-defined cellulosic material--as their model system the researchers applied PALM imaging in combination with a mathematical analysis they devised.
Their results showed that cellulases exhibit specificities for cellulose structures that have many different levels of organization ranging from the highly ordered to the highly disordered.
The new PALM-based technique should allow enzyme cock tails to be matched optimally to the structural organizations of particular biomass substrates such as grass
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#New diagnostic technology may lead to individualized treatments for prostate cancera research team jointly led by scientists from Cedars-Sinai Medical center
or any other cancer said Edwin M. Posadas MD medical director of the Urologic Oncology Program at Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and senior author
the Nanovelcro CTC chip laser capture microdissection and whole exome sequencing said Yi-Tsung Lu MD a postdoctoral scientist at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer
His enthusiasm is echoed by Leland W. K. Chung Phd director of the Urologic Oncology Research Program at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.
Cedars-Sinai researchers were supported by a Young Investigator Award and a Challenge Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation research grants (P01 CA098912 and R01 CA122602) from the National institutes of health a Department of defense Idea
The above story is provided based on materials by Cedars-Sinai Medical center. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
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#Trees used to create recyclable, efficient solar cellsolar cells are just like leaves capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy.
It's fitting that they can now be made partially from trees. Georgia Institute of technology and Purdue University researchers have developed efficient solar cells using natural substrates derived from plants such as trees.
Just as importantly by fabricating them on cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) substrates the solar cells can be recycled quickly in water at the end of their lifecycle.
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--which includes crop residues like wheat straw switchgrass whole trees and wood waste. This drop in fuel is designed to be a direct replacement for gasoline
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or dispose of the ash. When the researchers added the high-lignin ash byproduct to cement the ash reacted chemically with the cement to make it stronger.
The researchers tested the finished concrete material and found that replacing 20 percent of the cement with cellulosic material after burning increased the strength of the concrete by 32 percent.
and use of ash and concrete Riding said. This has the potential to make biofuel manufacture more cost effective by better using all of the resources that are being wasted
His poster was titled Utilization of high lignin residue ash (HLRA) in concrete materials. The research at Kansas State university was funded by more than $210000 from the National Science Foundation.
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