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How can we reduce food waste and turn it into bioplastics and cleaning agents. Plus the benefits of using bio-char to help improve crops and clean the air from smog. Plus we learn about some Food Waste reduction programs from across the world and around the corner in Melbourne.
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How does the human microbiome vary from person to person and place to place? Can your own collection of bacteria and archae protect you from fungal invaders?
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NASA's spacecraft JUNO has taken some amazing photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and citizen scientists have taken turns in turning these images into masterpieces. Check them out at the links below.
Plus how can life survive in a deadly martian soil that kills anything living in it? What about life inside a martian habitat? Are we humans at risk from bacteria and fungi we bring with us inside a spaceship? Sources:
When a one in fifty year storm hits South Australia, it exposed a lot of the underlying problems in electricity infrastructure. After many fiery political debates, investigations, reports and more, some action is being taken with Tesla looking to build a large battery facility.
But how did we end up in this situation? How are other countries dealing with the same challenges? How can we make battery technology better, cheaper and more available. Plus what other sources of renewable energy can we use? Sources:
How can we make our lab tests of new drugs more realistic to shorten the time to human trials? Plus how can we better test for cancer treatment effectiveness using liquid biopsies? This week we investigate ways to make cancer treatments more effective, and how to better simulate the complexities of the human before before we test a new drug.
Image: Ed Uthman from Houston, TX, USA, 2010, "Mycobacterial Infection, Duodenum". Sources: 1. Debora Bonvin et al. Protein Corona: Impact of Lymph Versus Blood in a Complex In Vitro Environment, Small (2017). DOI: 10.1002/smll.201700409 2. Parikh A, Goyal L, Hazar-Rethinam M. Systematic liquid biopsy identifies novel and heterogeneous mechanisms of acquired resistance in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer patients. Ann Oncol 2017; 28 (suppl_3): mdx262. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdx262. |
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