Can they use this technology to make burgers from less common animals? Penguins? I don't like the smell of penguins
but I guess we can. You can do it with any sort of satellite cell from an animal.
The leftovers were taken home for Dr. Post's children. well with any new product lets see what happens to the first few people who eat this
. if no ones dies i'll have one . but if we successfully start growing meat then
obviously there would be no purpose in keeping animals meant for food. will the vegetarians jump on board?
Save the seals choose invitro. Thats the name brand I'll choose Tasty Invitro Meats or TIM'sbeef chicken or Exotic:
and would signify any real meat that has not been taken from animals but grown). Or Growth Meatwe can't just keep ading more and more cattle pigs chickens ect.
and mennonites and zoos and peta freaks cows will go extinct well we might keep a herd for genetic improvement
Would you like to try our new Bald eagle petri-nuggets? http://www. joesid. comsounds great! Does it have less purines that a regular hamburger
We can reduce the number of livestock and stop KILLING helpless animals!!!I'll take A g-burger please!!!
Those 28 calories of grass the cow uses to make a calorie of beef are mostly celuloise a long chain poly-sacaride that is indigestable to humans and most other mammals.
or those morally opposed to killing sentient animals for food. I see where this can have value
if a non-animal growth medium could be developed. As long as the growth medium production does not require even more productive land to produce the cultured meat than actually running animals on the land.
Even as a vegetarian I realize that animals as a food source leverage land that is not possible to efficiently cultivate.
Let's just get to the point where it is more efficient than ranching and not dependent on a slaughterhouse before we start jumping up and down with joy..
#The Odd Way Beavers Impact Climate Changewhen the industrious beaver scurries around being its toothy self cutting down trees
When beavers build a dam impeding the natural flow of water the river begins to overflow more often creating a sediment-rich wetland area known as a beaver meadow.
A new study from Colorado State university geology professor Ellen Wohl finds that these beaver meadows store carbon temporarily sequestering greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
With reductions in the beaver population we're missing out on a whole lot of potential carbon storage.
Between 60 million to 400 million beavers once lived across 60 percent of North america but European settlers substantially reduced the population through hunting and trapping.
When beaver populations relocate and abandon their dams beaver meadows eventually dry up into grasslands and the wood and organic matter buried there begins to decompose
and release carbon dioxide. This suggests that beavers play an important role in keeping the ecosystem resilient against climate change drought and wildfire the study notes.
Wohl found that the abandoned beaver dams she studied made up around 8 percent of the carbon storage in the landscape
and that if beavers were still actively maintaining those dams the number would be closer to 23 percent.
As such wiping out most of the continent's beaver population during pre-Colonial times probably had quite an impact on the climate.
Beavers: Squirreling away our carbon log by log. The study appears in Geophysical Research Letters.
Science via Phys. org Considering we're at a critical carbon deficit right now it's about time to start wiping these pudgy menaces out for good!
Cute Beaver and interesting article too. Critical carbon deficit? WTF are you talking about?@@Frosttty for most of the history of the world we have had significantly more atmospheric carbon than we do now.
The beaver is a destructive animal that needs to be hunted or exterminated. A single beaver can
and will build a dam that will flood and create a pond anywhere from 2 to 10 acres.
Wildlife/insects in this newly created pond area move or die from drowning. As far as the release of carbon dioxide with the European/Colonial settlement of North america and the beaver trapping that occurred from the 1500's to the 1800's-give me a break.
Beavers continue to cut down trees and brush AFTER their dam and ponds are built-yes the destruction exceeds the pond area.
Beaver teeth grow through out their life like most rodents and they must alway chew/grind on something.
Why doesn't the author try to calculate how much forest was saved (carbon dioxide sequestered) by trapping the beavers?
They are pretty good at reducing problems with drought too. We could easily return half the world's farmland to wilderness for Beaver
and other wetland creatures and live longer healthier lives just by adopting a vegetarian diet.
Reading some of these comments it's clear that it's not enough that beavers sequester carbon raise the water table augment the density
and diversity of fish and bird populations trap silt and expand the riparian border. I'm curious
what kind of startling data it will take to convince readers that beavers really are worth a dam!
But the fact is that it takes a lot more than beavers to feed the estimated 7 billion people that populate the earth.
So what does all this have to do with beavers? How many dam beavers would it take to help us out?
And do we even have the room for them on our rivers and streams? And could that land be used instead in better more efficient ways?
Not beavers. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology...aside from dams and environmental'landscaping'they also make great hats and jackets.
On a side note of beavers beaver hat trivial...One of the legends about Daniel Boone is the type of cap
My father Daniel Boone always despised the racoon fur caps and did not wear one himself as he always had a hat.
With the food chain's bottom tier knocked out most animals would die off quickly but scavengers picking over the dead remains could last until the cold killed them.
Humans could live in submarines in the deepest and warmest parts of the ocean but a more attractive option might be nuclear-or geothermal-powered habitats.
It would indeed take 8 minutes for the Earth to leave its orbit and fly away into space.
and corn (although keeping entire barns warm would be a problem) then butcher these animals for food
or other animals crazed by starvation.</</b>I would estimate that at least 99.99 percent of humans would be dead within a year with people who own livestock
Did cockroaches find lost knowledge? The Giant sequoia?<<B>Evolution favors life but this favoritism is certainly not species specific.</
Instead the aim is to induce one species to grow an organ of the other not a combination of two species. He's done this with mice and rats;
back in 2010 he successfully induced a mouse embryo to grow a rat pancreas by using rat stem cells.
and also involves some genetic manipulation and almost certainly some inhumane treatment of animals. How happy are those pancreas-less piglets really?
The right amount of sodium ions present at a wound site allows for regenerative effects similar to those found in a Salamander.
Nilton Renno a professor at the University of Michigan and an atmospheric convection expert believes Michaud's calculations assume that AVES cover the entire surface area of Earth.
While the theory behind AVES is solid scaling them up to the size AVETEC requires could go awry Renno says.
He believes that his AVES have the potential to be a major electrical energy producer and one that will be cost-effective.
Building AVES will reduce our reliance on fossil fuels he says and that will reduce emissions in turn.
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Higher animals such as primates and dolphins evolved in a greenhouse earth. Earth was damaged by an evasive plant species that kicked a series of global catastrophes called icebox earth
Even so I think we should dump Drill baby drill! and start changing Bring on the thorium!
I'm all about only domesticated animals like cows...they don't want to eat me just stare at
Hansen is a living example of the idea that a chimpanzee randomly typing will occasionally generate something coherent.
Dr. Yablokov found ONE MILLION deaths due to Chernobyl. 5. Dr. Wing found that lung cancers rose dramatically in people exposed to the Three Mile Island radiation plume. 6. Dr. Gould
Animals are showing signs of radiation exposure. Fish have been caught with radiation. An entire species of nails is extinct due to Fukushima.
Radiation is being in found in seaweed zooplankton and sea life in the oceans. Animal and plant mutations are being found everywhere.
There is no doubt about it. Man-made nuclear radiation is wreaking havoc on human genetics human health and our environment.
i have heard of live animals to be tested as 2000 years old (though i have no reference).
@Addl The 2000 year old live animals you cite was from testing mollusk shells. The carbon in mollusk shells is dissolved from calcium carbonate in water.
Thus the measurement was an average of when the carbon formed not the age of the animal.
For this reason radiocarbon dating only works for organisms that obtain their carbon from air via carbon dioxide.
Even organisms that eat aquatic organisms should be calibrated to account for this (for example a seal that was dated to be 1400 years old.
and streams to keep mosquitoes from breeding. Such practices would be frowned upon today but apparently these methods saved thousands of lives in the early 1900s.
In this essay from the September 1913 issue of Popular Science Dr. John Silas Lankford from the University of Texas describes how the country where death with grim terror reigned as king queen
The land of the jungle where the mosquito sang her weird song of death unmolested for four hundred years vying with the germs of dysentery typhoid fever and pneumonia in the destruction of human life;
the country where death with grim terror reigned as king queen and prime minister has yielded to modern methods of sanitation
In comparison with similar expenditures in American cities it should not be forgotten that practically nine-tenths of the cost of sanitation in the Zone is in mosquito fighting and quarantine.
and malarial mosquitos thrive in countless millions; 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;
and there is an almost constant stream of decaying vegetable and animal matter pouring into lakes
Decaying animal matter leads to the generation of innumerable flies ever ready to convey disease
the cisterns puddles and lakes furnished convenient breeding places for mosquitos; the streets and sidewalks were in horrible condition
and flies literally swarmed over the food. The conditions were little better in Panama city and in the intermediate towns.
Gorgas himself says that the Americans could have done no better than The french without the knowledge of the mosquito as a disease carrier.
and after spending over $260000000 he met with complete failure a failure that glares like a death dragon from the old discarded machinery
so that the operatives might be protected from mosquitoes during sleeping hours. Colon and Panama city are in the Zone
and marshes so that mosquitoes could not breed. Each little station or town was furnished a pure water supply brought down from the distant hills in some instances and provided with an efficient system of sewers or in some rare instances well arranged cesspools.
so that the mosquito could find no resting place. Plague-carrying rats and other vermin were destroyed.
Disinfectants were used freely and fumigation resorted to when necessary in handling contagious diseases. Rotting vegetable and animal matter offal
and garbage were burned. The life and habits of the men were regulated carefully Government dining halls furnished good meals well cooked
This proposition was demonstrated beyond all question in a great educational campaign on the mosquito in the San antonio public schools several years ago in
which the mosquito was exterminated completely. It is an inspiring sight to witness this unseemly death-ridden tropical country changed into a place of beauty
and seedlings of the parent plants that companies crossbreed to create the seeds they sell to farmers.
Sometimes we get dead animals he says. We get everything. He plucks out a black fragment that looks like plastic.
I caught the plastics bug. Biddle later got a Ph d. in polymer science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University.
Another photo depicts a dead albatross on Midway Island in the Pacific its open stomach revealing hundreds of brightly colored plastic bits.
If that unassuming building on a street corner in Shoreditch is actually a trap for hundreds of tons of carbon imagine an entire city of Stadthauses.
#Rise Of The Insect Dronesas they sat nursing their beers Guiler and Vaneck watched as a fly appeared to slam into a window.
Instead of breaking apart on contact as their drones did bounced the insect off the glass and recovered.
Then it did it again. It was an epiphany says Vaneck who works for the Massachusetts research and development company Physical sciences Inc. PSI.
But until recently inventors lacked the aerodynamics expertise to turn diagrams into mechanical versions of something as quotidian as a fly or a bee.
And engineers have developed the first flying insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:
More likely they will look like the animals around you. Although insects and their relatives represent roughly 80 percent of the world s animal species ome 900000 known types he mechanics of their flight had long been an enigma.
Traditional fixed-wing aircraft rely on a steady flow of air over the wings. The same is true of helicopters and rotors.
But as the wings of insects flap back and forth the air around them is constantly changing.
And the stubby wings of bees and other insects lift far more weight than can be explained using conventional steady-state aerodynamics principles.
Engineers have developed the first insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:
In the 1970s Torkel Weis-Fogh a Danish zoologist at the University of Cambridge used high-speed photography to analyze the exact wing motions of hovering insects and compare them to the insects morphological features.
From this he formulated a general theory of insect flight which included what he called the clap-and-fling effect.
When insect wings clap together and then peel apart between the up and down strokes the motion flings air away
This vortex creates the force necessary to lift the insect between wing flaps. Similar vortices might be generated by the angle
Charles Ellington a Cambridge zoologist and former Weis-Fogh student built a robotic wing that could precisely mimic the movements of a hawk moth.
At the University of California at Berkeley neurobiologist Michael Dickinson built a robotic fruit-fly wing that likewise mimicked a fly s natural motion
Dickinson and electrical engineer Ron Fearing won a $2. 5-million DARPA grant in 1998 to apply these principles to a fly-size robot.
Flies have really complex wing trajectories. There are a whole bunch of subtle things that happen Wood says.
he had built a gyroscope that could mimic the sensors insects use to detect body rotation;
What remained was to put it all together into a working insect-size flying machine. On a freezing day in 2006 Wood arrived at his Oxford street laboratory at Harvard.
On the workbench sat a 60-milligram robot with a three-centimeter wingspan and a thorax roughly the size of a housefly.
and demonstrating for the first time stable hovering and controlled flight maneuvers in an insect-scale vehicle. I didn t end up sleeping the rest of that night Wood says.
Techject a company that spun off from work done at the Georgia Institute of technology recently unveiled a robotic dragonfly with a six-inch wingspan.
The Techject Dragonfly takes advantage of an aerodynamics principle called resonance. When wings flap at their most efficient frequency hich happens
After observing the fly at the bar the two engineers searched for someone with experience replicating insect flight.
By closely observing the positions of the flies body parts they could measure the exact flip and twist of wings and legs.
I thought the fly would tumble a bit and lose a lot of altitude Vaneck says. But the fly recovery was elegant.
Just before the moment of impact the fly flew at an angle that ensured its legs touched the glass first.
Every time the fly slammed into the window it reflexively surrendered to the crash momentum and fell.
Then its wings flapped again propelling the insect into a controlled hover. It can hit
in order to mimic the alternating wing speed that provides four-winged insects with exceptional control. When the vehicle is blown out of position
Unlike the much larger Instanteye Nano Hummingbird and Dragonfly drones Robobees must be connected to an external power source.
But what we discovered was flapping-wing birds and insects are suited perfectly for environments where you have dynamic obstructions he trees are moving the branches are moving.
If they do get stuck by their very motion they get unstuck. They kind of beat their way through.
Today he runs a lab at the University of Washington and works with advanced imaging systems to study insect flight.
Fifteen years ago the flies looked like little fuzzy UFOS he says. Now the biologists use cameras that can run at 7500 frames per second significantly higher than what was once available to researchers and that work in infrared light.
he s using electrodes to record the activity of neurons in insects brains. He links them to a flight-simulation system and presents them with visual stimuli picture of a predator for instance hat cause them to react.
We can begin to learn how neurons in the brain are processing information in flight and how sensory information is transformed into action Dickinson says.
which animals keep themselves in the air. Now we are going beyond that to understand how flies steer and maneuver.
which unlike the imported vaccines has been demonstrated to provide protection against bacterium infection in the small ruminants like goats and sheep.
and technology could be modified to produce vaccines against other diseases of animals and humans. In fact the technology can be modified further to produce test kits for various diseases he said.
Whitefly experimentation to prevent contamination of agricultureon November 8th Jove the Journal of Visualized Experiments will introduce a new technique to aid in the development of defenses against diseases threatening food crops worldwide.
The method published under the title Transmitting Plant viruses Using Whiteflies is applicable to such at-risk crops as tomatoes and common bean plants.
The whitefly method provides a means of interfering with the plant-contamination process as well as the cultivation of plants that are altogether resistant to infection.
and her colleagues write that numerous genera of whitefly-transmitted plant viruses (such as Begomovirus Carlavirus Crinivirus Ipomovirus Torradovirus) are part of an emerging and economically significant group of pathogens affecting important food
The technique includes reliably rearing whiteflies with a specific virus while omitting the possibility of cross-contamination to other viruses--an easily encountered problem because of the sheer number of whiteflies used in testing.
Such contamination would jeopardize the results of an entire experiment. After exposing large numbers of a particular plant species to a specific whitefly-transmitted virus a researcher can then note which individual plants resisted infection and why.
This article outlines how to generate hundreds or thousands of infected plants year-round by exposing them to whiteflies each week.
Therefore the whitefly-assisted transmission method provides researchers with a powerful means for continued experimentation in developing plant defenses against the threat of whitefly-transmitted disease.
Polston said that she published this technique through Jove's video format because it was difficult to explain it through traditional text-only journals.
Famous weevils moths and borer beetles live in a very comfortable environment when in the middle of a silo or warehouse fill with grains.
This insects alongside some fungi bacteria and viruses cause annual loses of between four and ten percent of all the stored grains worldwide mainly corn wheat sorghum rice and beans.
Until five years ago the main fumigation technique and pest control inside warehouses and silos was the use of chemical substances such as aluminum phosphide and methyl bromide
The ozone removes the comfort zone of the insects making them unable to breathe and modifying the internal atmosphere of the room using this technique pest free grains are obtained during the whole purchase sale and storage cycle.
The effectiveness of this technology meets the Official Mexican Standard (NOM. This innovation already has industrial property protection
Changes among the plants can be seen as they respond to cabbage white butterfly caterpillars and stinkbugs introduced during the experiment.
In particular lights that doubled as cellphone chargers helped small businesses in two ways: The lights kept an owner's store illuminated at night driving more traffic to it
and the owner could rent the light as a charger for customers'cellphones. Interestingly the researchers found that in all cases microentrepreneurs tended to prefer products that were not necessarily the cheapest available:
and encoded ASCII letters spelling out RICE OWLS into the bits. Setting adjacent bits to the on state--usually a condition that leads to voltage leaks and data corruption in a 1r crossbar structure--had no effect on the information he said.
#Human activities threaten Sumatran tiger populationsumatran tigers found exclusively on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are on the brink of extinction.
and locations of the island's dwindling tiger population has been up for debate. Virginia Tech and World Wildlife Fund researchers have found that tigers in central Sumatra live at very low densities lower than previously believed according to a study in the April 2013 issue of Oryx--The International Journal of Conservation.
The findings by Sunarto who earned his doctorate from Virginia Tech in 2011 and co-researchers Marcella Kelly an associate professor of wildlife in the College of Natural resources and Environment and Erin Poor of East Lansing Mich. a doctoral student studying wildlife science and geospatial
environmental analysis in the college suggest that high levels of human activity limit the tiger population.
which could inform interventions needed to save the tiger. Tigers are threatened not only by habitat loss from deforestation and poaching;
they are also very sensitive to human disturbance said Sunarto a native of Indonesia where people typically have one name.
The smallest surviving tiger subspecies Sumatran tigers are extremely elusive and may live at densities as low as one cat per 40 square miles.
This is the first study to compare the density of Sumatran tigers across various forest types including the previously unstudied peat land.
The research applied spatial estimation techniques to provide better accuracy of tiger density than previous studies.
Sunarto a tiger and elephant specialist with World Wildlife Fund-Indonesia collaborated on the paper with Kelly Professor Emeritus Michael Vaughan
and Sybille Klenzendorf managing director of WWF's Species Conservation Program who earned her master's and doctoral degrees in wildlife science from Virginia Tech.
Getting evidence of the tigers'presence was said difficult Kelly. It took an average of 590 days for camera traps to get an image of each individual tiger recorded.
We believe the low detection of tigers in the study area of central Sumatra was a result of the high level of human activity--farming hunting trapping
and gathering of forest products Sunarto said. We found a low population of tigers in these areas even
when there was an abundance of prey animals. Legal protection of an area followed by intensive management can reduce the level of human disturbance
and facilitate the recovery of the habitat and as well as tiger numbers. The researchers documented a potentially stable tiger population in the study region's Tesso Nilo Park where legal efforts are in place to discourage destructive human activities.
The study--Threatened predator on the equator: Multi-point abundance estimates of the tiger Panthera tigris in central Sumatra--indicates that more intensive monitoring
and proactive management of tiger populations and their habitats are crucial or this tiger subspecies will soon follow the fate of its extinct Javan and Balinese relatives.
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