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Oct 8, 2024

Plant-based diets and urological health

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

Plant-based diets have grown in popularity owing to multiple health and environmental benefits.


Here, the authors describe the evidence concerning plant-based dietary patterns and omnivorous diets with reduced consumption of animal-based food and increased consumption of plant-based foods and their associations with the most common urological cancers and benign urological conditions.

Oct 7, 2024

First Gut Microbiome Map for Personalized Food Responses

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

Summary: A recent study has mapped how molecules in food interact with gut bacteria, revealing why people respond differently to the same diets. By examining 150 dietary compounds, researchers found that these molecules can reshape gut microbiomes in some individuals, while having little effect in others.

This breakthrough could enable personalized nutrition strategies to better manage health risks. The findings offer a deeper understanding of the gut microbiome’s role in health and disease.

Oct 7, 2024

Student designs pangolin robot that digs, drops seed for farming

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

A student built a pangolin-inspired robot for planting, winning the University of Surrey’s robotics contest.


A California student created Plantolin, a pangolin-inspired robot for digging and planting, winning the University of Surrey’s contest.

Oct 4, 2024

Wastewater bacteria can break down plastic for food, yielding new possibilities for cleaning up plastic waste

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Researchers have long observed that a common family of environmental bacteria, Comamonadacae, grow on plastics littered throughout urban rivers and wastewater systems. But exactly what these Comamonas bacteria are doing has remained a mystery.

Oct 3, 2024

Report: Global drought threatens food supplies and energy production

Posted by in categories: energy, food, sustainability

In July 2024, global temperatures reached unprecedented levels, breaking historical records with an average of 17.16°C. This extreme heat has led soil water to evaporate, leaving the vegetation and biodiversity more fragile and under stress in many regions of the world.

Oct 3, 2024

Edible transistor made from toothpaste

Posted by in categories: computing, food

Researchers have made an edible transistor out of a toothpaste ingredient, which could help with edible healthcare electronics.

Oct 3, 2024

Scientists Engineer Yellow-seeded Camelina with High Oil Output

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, genetics

UPTON, N.Y. — Efforts to achieve net-zero carbon emissions from transportation fuels are increasing demand for oil produced by nonfood crops. These plants use sunlight to power the conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide into oil, which accumulates in seeds. Crop breeders interested in selecting plants that produce a lot of oil look for yellow seeds. In oilseed crops like canola, yellow-seeded varieties generally produce more oil than their brown-seeded counterparts. The reason: The protein responsible for brown seed color — which yellow-seeded plants lack — also plays a key role in oil production.

Now, plant biochemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory — who are interested in increasing plant oil synthesis for the sustainable production of biofuels and other bioproducts — have harnessed this knowledge to create a new high-yielding oilseed crop variety. In a paper just published in The Plant Biotechnology Journal, they describe how they used tools of modern genetics to produce a yellow-seeded variety of Camelina sativa, a close relative of canola, that accumulates 21.4% more oil than ordinary camelina.

“If breeders can get a few percent increase in oil production, they regard it as significant, because even small increases in yield can lead to large increases in oil production when you’re planting millions of acres,” said Brookhaven Lab biochemist John Shanklin, chair of the Lab’s Biology Department and leader of its plant oil research program. “Our nearly 22% increase was unexpected and could potentially result in a dramatic increase in production,” he said.

Oct 3, 2024

15 Best Longevity Recipes

Posted by in categories: food, life extension

Did you know certain seed-heavy fruits like raspberries are actually healthier if you blend them in a smoothie?

I learned this and more while researching for my article on the best longevity recipes:


We took the top anti-aging foods and combined them into a list of the best longevity recipes to help you live a longer, tastier life.

Oct 1, 2024

Scientists Have Discovered a Dietary Compound That Increases Longevity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension, neuroscience

Researchers from the Color and Food Quality group at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Seville, in partnership with Dr. Marina Ezcurra’s team at the University of Kent (UK), have demonstrated that the carotenoid phytoene extends the lifespan of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Additionally, it delays the onset of paralysis linked to amyloid plaque formation in an Alzheimer’s disease model.

Specifically, increases in longevity of between 10 and 18.6% and decreases in the proteotoxic effect of plaques of between 30 and 40% were observed. The studies, which form part of Ángeles Morón Ortiz’s doctoral thesis, tested pure phytoene and extracts rich in this carotenoid obtained from microalgae.

According to Dr. Paula Mapelli Brahm, “These are very exciting preliminary results, so we are looking for funding to continue this line of research and to find out by what mechanisms these effects are produced.”

Sep 29, 2024

Drought reduces Amazon River in Colombia by as much as 90%: report

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The lack of water was particularly impacting Indigenous communities who depend on the river for food and transport, it added.

AFP has observed boats stranded around Leticia, capital of the southern Amazonas state, in recent days, with large swathes of land exposed by low water levels.

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