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Mar 15, 2016

Meet the electric life forms that live on pure energy

Posted by in categories: energy, food

Unlike any other life on Earth, these extraordinary bacteria use energy in its purest form – they eat and breathe electrons – and they are everywhere.

Geobacter – a current favourite

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Mar 9, 2016

Scientists just grew vegetables in ‘Martian’ soil — but there’s a catch

Posted by in categories: food, space

There’s no way of knowing how good our fake Mars soil really is — plus, the plants might be toxic.

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Mar 9, 2016

Welcome to the CRISPR zoo

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

Modifying animals to improve food quality consumption.


Birds and bees are just the beginning for a burgeoning technology.

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Mar 7, 2016

High Glycemic Index Associated With Increased Risk of Lung Cancer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food

“Lung cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in Manitoba”, said Dr. Sri Navaratnam, president and CEO of CancerCare Manitoba. They all are carbohydrate-containing foods with a high glycemic index (GI).

Almost two years ago, the American Lung Association launched LUNG FORCE, an initiative to defeat lung cancer and rally Americans to raise their voices in support of a cure.

Eating a lot of white bread, processed breakfast cereals, cakes and biscuits may increase your risk for lung cancer, warns a new study. Why? However, they recommend individuals to limit food items high in GI such as white bread, corn flakes, bagels and puffed rice. The study results encompass 1,905 cases and 2,413 controls.

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Mar 7, 2016

Cancer cells get their fuel from neighbours‘ ’words‘

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Very bizarre — cancer cells were modifying their metabolism based on communications they were receiving from cells in the microenvironment near the tumor.


Washington D.C., Mar 8 (ANI): A recent study has revealed that cancer cells get 30–60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbours’ ‘words’.

Researcher Deepak Nagrath from Rice University said their original hypothesis was that cancer cells were modifying their metabolism based on communications they were receiving from cells in the microenvironment near the tumor, but none of them expected to find that they were converting the signals directly into energy.

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Mar 7, 2016

ACD/Labs Highlights its Mixture Analysis Software Capabilities at PITTCON 2016

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ACD Labs new solution is streamlining lab analysis.


ACD/Labs, a leading cheminformatics company, today announced it will introduce a set of new mixture analysis capabilities to its ACD/ChemAnalytical Workbook and ACD/Spectrus Platform. For more than a decade ACD/Labs’ software solutions have been used for analysis of complex chemical mixtures in a variety of industries including, but not limited to, pharmaceuticals, coatings, petroleum and lubricants, polymers, food and beverages, and environmental elements.„„ With the introduction of t…

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Mar 4, 2016

The world’s biggest source of freshwater is beneath your feet

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You might not give it more than a passing thought, but groundwater is a vital freshwater resource. In Australia alone, the reserves of groundwater help to earn the nation a steady A$34 billion a year from mining, food production and manufacturing.

But it’s also a vulnerable resource. Worldwide, about 1.7 billion people live in regions where groundwater is under stress, 60 percent of them in India and China.

US and Canadian researchers recently calculated the total amount of the world’s groundwater and estimated that it is equivalent to a lake 180 metres deep covering the entire Earth. This makes groundwater the largest active freshwater resource on the planet.

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Mar 4, 2016

Argentina builds trash-eating robot with recycled parts

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

An Argentine engineer has used recycled items to create a robot that can find and eat trash, the media reported on Friday.

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Mar 3, 2016

Future Food — Overview

Posted by in categories: food, futurism

The Portal Future Food focuses on different possibilities for replacing animal products with products that are not derived from animals.

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Mar 2, 2016

The Store With No Employees: Sweden Opens The First Unstaffed Store

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

Driven by a need for convenience, an IT specialist from Sweden just opened the country’s first unstaffed store, which uses an app for access and scanning technology to make purchases.

After dropping what turned out to be his last jar of baby food on the floor, Robert Ilijason, who was then home alone with his son, had no choice but to make a drive to find a supermarket that was open and buy a new one.

This was no easy task, as shops close early in many rural areas, leaving individuals with nowhere to go to get any last minute necessities late at night.

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