Having launched a potato version last year and with a popcorn line on the way, the founders hope to build the LVMH of healthy snack foods.
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Biohybrid Robots Explained: When Biology Meets Robotics & AI! #BiohybridRobots #SyntheticBiology
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Discover the incredible future of biohybrid robots, the revolutionary fusion of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and robotics! In this episode, we explore robots powered by living tissues, capable of self-repair, adaptation, and natural movements. Find out how these bioengineered robots can transform medicine, agriculture, environmental science, and prosthetics. Learn about the ethical considerations, safety challenges, and futuristic possibilities of combining biological materials with robotic systems.
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00:00 â Introduction to Biohybrid Robots.
01:30 â What Are Biohybrid Robots?
03:50 â How Scientists Build Biohybrid Robots.
06:20 â Medical Applications & Healthcare.
08:45 â Revolutionary Prosthetics.
11:00 â Environmental Biohybrid Robotics.
13:20 â Agricultural Applications.
14:50 â Ethical & Safety Considerations.
17:00 â Future Possibilities.
19:00 â Conclusion & Call to Action.
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A versatile self-cleaning fabric coating as a detergent-free laundry product
face_with_colon_three Self cleaning fabric coating. This could reduce the need for detergent and other chemicals that could be harmful to the environment.
Routine household laundry leads to the release of detergent residues and textile-derived microplastics, contributing to water pollution. Here, the authors report a self-cleaning polyelectrolyte multilayer coating that can be applied to both hydrophobic synthetic fibers and hydrophilic cotton textiles to remove food stains, oily residues, and pathogens, providing a detergent-free laundry product requiring reduced rinsing.
Bed Nucleus of Stria Terminalis Enkephalin Neurons Contribute to Depletion-Induced Salt Appetite
The overconsumption of sodium contributes to a wide range of detrimental health conditions. Thus, it is imperative to gain a better understanding of the neural mechanisms driving sodium appetite. Here, we combined neuroanatomic, transgenic, behavioral, and chemogenetic approaches to investigate the role of bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BNST) enkephalin neurons (BNSTENK) in sodium appetite in male and female pENK-Cre mice. Our results demonstrate that Gi-mediated signaling onto BNSTENK neurons regulates salt consumption following sodium depletion but does not impact upon taste preference when replete. Further, Gi-mediated signaling onto BNSTENK neurons had no effect on deprivation-induced food or water intake or anxiety-like behavior.
Scientists generate electricity from ambient moisture using everyday ingredients
In a study published in Nano Energy, researchers from Queen Mary, the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, and Universitas Mercatorum report a highly stable, biodegradable Moisture-Electric Generator (MEG). The device is fabricated from food-grade materials including gelatin, sodium chloride (table salt), and activated carbon, and harnesses humidityâtypically a major challenge for electronicsâas its energy source.
This approach represents a significant shift in electronic design, transforming atmospheric moisture from a limitation into a functional energy input.
Chickens Hatch From Worldâs First Artificial Eggs
On May 19, Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences, which last year made headlines when it effectively de-extincted the dire wolf, announced that it had hatched a flock of 26 live chicks from fully artificial eggs. The technology behind the breakthrough can be later applied to bring back the dodo and New Zealandâs giant, flightless moaâboth on Colossalâs de-extinction âto doâ listâŠ
âŠDesigning an artificial shell is not easy because a natural shell is deceptively complex. Made principally of calcium carbonate arranged in a crystalline structure, a typical egg shell is no more than 0.4 mm thick, and covered with up to 17,000 tiny pores to allow for gas exchange with the ambient atmosphereâcarbon dioxide out, and oxygen in. There are, too, a pair of slick inner membranes in the egg that perform another critical function, protecting the growing chick from invading bacteria. But those membranes have to be exceedingly thinâŠ
âŠThe egg Colossal invented was very different. The inner membranes were made of vanishingly thin silicon using a proprietary technology that Colossal is planning to patent. The shell itself was only about two-thirds of a shellâa titanium structure that resembles nothing so much as a soft-boiled-egg cup with its top missing, albeit with hundreds of hexagonal pores to allow for gas exchange. Once a few dozen of the titanium eggs were manufactured, Colossal gathered fertilized chicken eggs from an avian farm the company owns and operates and transported them to the lab. There, the scientists gently opened the top of the egg and transferred the yolk and the white and the tiny embryo onto the titanium egg cup and covered the cup with a transparent lid. The embryos were about three days past fertilization when they were transferred, meaning that they had 18 days remaining in their three-week incubation cycle.
âWe place the egg into an incubator that controls the environment,â says Lambert. âWe then collect visual images at periodic milestones to understand how development is progressing.â When the incubation period was done, the chicks began âpipping,â using their beaks to break through the membrane just the way an ordinary chick breaks through its shell. Eventually, the 26 chicks were moved to the same Texas farm from which their eggs were collected, where they can live out their five to 10 year lifespan.
The breakthrough could help bring giant birds back from extinction.
Say Goodbye to the Generative AI Buffet Line
Remember the early days of AI when a single monthly fee seemed like the ultimate golden ticket? It felt like having a limitless digital brain at our fingertipsâuntil the dreaded usage limit pop-up appeared right in the middle of a critical project. Suddenly, that all-access pass felt more like a restrictive tether, leaving many of us frustrated by hidden caps and invisible throttles just when we needed peak performance the most.
It turns out, we were looking at AI pricing all wrong. Instead of a standard software subscription, artificial intelligence is much more like a utilityâa highly measurable resource that actually makes more sense on a pay-as-you-go basis. Imagine a single, centralized workspace where you can seamlessly switch between the biggest powerhouse models on the market for your heavy-duty coding or reasoning, and then route simple summaries to lightning-fast, budget-friendly models.
No more juggling five different logins, and no more getting cut off; just total transparency and control over exactly what you spend.
We are finally entering an era where users hold the reins, and the chaotic days of unpredictable quotas are fading fast. I just published a new piece diving deep into how this shift toward unified, ledger-based AI platforms is completely changing the game for creators, developers, and everyday users alike.
Check out the full article at the link below to explore how this new approach works and why it is exactly the upgrade we have all been waiting for!
Remember late 2022 and early 2023? In tech years, it feels like a lifetime ago. That was when generative AI first exploded onto the scene, and the pricing was brilliantly, beautifully simple. You signed up for a basic flat subscriptionâusually around $20 a monthâand you had the magic of the universe at your fingertips. If you were an enterprise team, maybe you stepped up to a specialized tier. But overall, the premise was the same.
Biodegradable sensors attached to plants detect pesticides in 3 minutes
Researchers at the SĂŁo Carlos Institute of Physics at the University of SĂŁo Paulo (IFSC-USP) in Brazil, led by Paulo Augusto Raymundo-Pereira, have created biodegradable, âwearableâ sensors for plants to monitor their health, including the presence of pesticides. The sensors are made from carbon ink and are screen-printed onto transparent cellulose acetate bioplastics.
The study was published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X. The World Economic Forum selected wearable sensor engineering as one of the top ten emerging technologies of 2023 for its potential to improve plant health and increase agricultural productivity.
However, most wearable devices today are made from nonrenewable plastic polymers derived from petroleum and have poor adhesion to uneven, wavy, and curved surfaces.
Tailored drinks could provide space nutrition
Researchers have developed customizable omega-3 nanoemulsion drinks to protect astronautsâ bones and muscles from space radiation. [ https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/30563/tailored-drinkâŠutrition-2](https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/30563/tailored-drinkâŠutrition-2)
How could customizable drinks help provide astronauts on future, long-term space missions with the proper levels of nutrition? This is what a recent study published in ACS Food Science & Technology hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated novel methods for improving future astronaut diets. This study has the potential to help scientists, mission planners, and astronauts develop improved dietary plans, specifically as space mission durations are aimed to increase in the coming years.
For the study, the researchers introduced beverage nanoemulsion drinks, with emulsion drinks being a common drink that typically consists of a blended mixture of two normally non-mixable substances like an oily substance and watery substance with microscopic droplets within the liquid since they donât full mix together. In this case, the researchers propose nanoemulsion drinks with even smaller droplets and consist of water and Omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil), which provide bone and muscle protection against space radiation.
In the end, the researchers found that customizable drinks with a variety of sweetness levels and flavors are the best options. Going forward, the researchers aspire to test the tastiness of the beverages under microgravity conditions, as they note the drinks taste like typical flat sodas after carbonation loss.
Bioengineers condense protein engineering and testing to a single day
Proteins are critical to lifeâand to industry. There are countless proteins that could be engineered to treat and even cure serious diseases and cellular dysfunctions. Industrial applications are similarly promising, with proteins increasingly used as enzymes in food manufacturing and in consumer detergents.
While AI can help suggest improvements, each novel protein must still be created in the real world and tested for performance. It is a labor-intensive process that involves constructing the DNA instructions for each protein in yeast or bacteria and growing individual clones for protein production and testing. This can take many days for a single protein of interest and even longer if the protein needs to be tested in mammalian cells, a process that requires retrieving DNA from microbes for transfer to the mammalian cells.
In a new paper, Michael Z. Lin, a professor of neurobiology and of bioengineering in the schools of Engineering and Medicine, and graduate students, Yan Wu in bioengineering and Pengli Wang in chemical engineering, say they have condensed the time-intensive protein building and testing process to just 24 hours.