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Mar 7, 2021

Scientists Create ‘Clock’ That Measures Biological Age

Posted by in categories: biological, life extension

This enables scientists to determine an organism’s biological age with high precision. Get the details here.

Mar 4, 2021

Dr. Ellen de Brabander — SVP, R&D, PepsiCo — The Future Of Food And Beverage Innovation

Posted by in categories: biological, chemistry, education, food, government, health

The Future Of Food And Beverage Innovation And Venturing — Dr. Ellen De Brabander, Ph.D. — Senior Vice President, R&D, PepsiCo


Dr. Ellen de Brabander, is Senior Vice President, Research and Development, at PepsiCo, the American multinational food, snack, and beverage company.

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Mar 2, 2021

Humans are dirty. This NASA scientist helps prevent Mars from getting contaminated

Posted by in categories: biological, space

How do you keep microbes from Earth from contaminating Mars? This NASA scientist, who worked on the Perseverance mission, explains: # CountdowntoMars # Mars2020.

Mar 1, 2021

Clocking the Movement of Electrons Inside an Atom – Down to a Millionth of a Billionth of a Second

Posted by in categories: biological, particle physics

Scientists get dramatically better resolution at X-ray free-electron lasers with a new technique.

Intense, ultrashort X-ray pulses from hard X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) can capture images of biological structures down to the atomic scale and shed light on the fastest processes in nature with a shutter speed of just one femtosecond, a millionth of a billionth of a second.

However, on these miniscule time scales, it is extremely difficult to synchronize the X-ray pulse that sparks a reaction in the sample with the follow-up pulse that observes the reaction. This problem, called timing jitter, is a major hurdle in performing these XFEL experiments with ever-better resolution.

Feb 18, 2021

Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn

Posted by in categories: biological, information science, robotics/AI

The learning algorithm that enables the runaway success of deep neural networks doesn’t work in biological brains, but researchers are finding alternatives that could.

Feb 16, 2021

Scientists Successfully “Wake” Microbes That Had Remained Dormant for 100 Million Years

Posted by in category: biological

Scientists have successfully managed to wake a series of microbes that had remained “asleep” for at least 100 million years. The microbes that existed during the dinosaurs’ time have shown traces of growth in the latest studies.

A team of scientists in the US and Japan says that these prehistoric microorganisms began to grow and divide despite having entered an energy-saving state when dinosaurs were still walking on Earth.

The microbes belonged to ten different bacteria groups and were recovered from sediments mined in 2010 at the bottom of the South Pacific Gyre, one of the most deserted parts of the ocean in terms of nutrients.

Feb 14, 2021

The Power of Synthetic Biology

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biological

Check out this amazing video about Synthetic Biology! (Credit: Vasil Hnãtiuk, Denis Sibilev, and Andrei Myshev)

Feb 8, 2021

Microbe that Eats Arsenic Found

Posted by in category: biological

Arsenic may be deadly to us, but now a microbe that can live and grow entirely off the poison has been discovered.

Feb 6, 2021

These star-shaped brain cells may help us understand depression’s biological roots

Posted by in categories: biological, neuroscience

People with depression have a distinguishing feature in their brains, according to a new study.

Feb 2, 2021

Researchers discover an immense hydrocarbon cycle in the world’s ocean

Posted by in category: biological

Hydrocarbons and petroleum are almost synonymous in environmental science. After all, oil reserves account for nearly all the hydrocarbons we encounter. But the few hydrocarbons that trace their origin to biological sources may play a larger ecological role than scientists originally suspected.