While the fake meat industry is being touted as an environmentally friendly and sustainable way to feed the world, the true intent is to recreate the kind of global control that Monsanto and others achieved through patented GMO seed development
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AI FINDS A DRUG TO KILL A DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIUM
One of every 31 Americans who enters a hospital will pick up an infection while there. That comes to about 1.7 million infections each year, resulting in 99,000 deaths, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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NEW MOLECULE REGENERATES NERVES, HEART TISSUE AFTER INJURY
Re-establishing nerve pathways after damage is one of medicine’s toughest problems. A related one is dealing with dead heart tissue that clings to the heart after a heart attack and can cause other cardiac problems even years later.
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COAL’S NEW ROLE IN A GREEN ENERGY ECONOMY: A HYDROGEN ‘BATTERY’
Among green energy advocates, coal is reviled as the dirtiest and smoggiest of fuels.
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PULLING ELECTRICITY OUT OF THIN (OR THICK) AIR
Using a special strain of bacteria, a research team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created nanowires that can make an electric charge by pulling humidity—even tiny amounts—from air.
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RECOVERING MINERALS THROUGH PHYTOMINING
Forward-thinking researchers are foreseeing a time when future generations of humanity are running short of minerals because their ancestors have used them up.
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PARALYZED MAN WALKS WITH ELECTRONIC BRAIN-SPINE BRIDGE
Gert-Jan Oskam, a Dutch man whose spinal cord was damaged in a bicycle accident, is able to walk again, thanks to an electronic “bridge” that transmits signals from his brain to the spinal column below the injury.
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BENCHTOP DNA PRINTERS: A NEW WEAPON OF TERROR?
Research biologists editing DNA have been buying their DNA samples from about 100 specialty suppliers. Those samples have been used to create new drugs, biofuels, and crops.
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EV START-UP IS BUILDING A BATTERY-SWAPPING INFRASTRUCTURE
When electric vehicle (EV) start-up Fisker introduces its “Ocean” SUV in the U.S. next year, it also will unveil its new battery-swapping station that can “refuel” its cars in the time it takes to fill a tank with gas, the company says.
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INHALED POWDER PROTECTS AGAINST CORONAVIRUS
When the next coronavirus starts spreading, we might be able to avoid doing battle over facemasks, thanks to a compound developed by researchers at North Carolina State University.