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Engaging with the science behind food

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Engaging with the science behind food Published: The preparation of food is biochemically complex. At North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in the US, Dr Salam A. In the Food Microbiology and Biotechnology Lab at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), Dr Salam A.

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How can we improve food safety across the world?

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At the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA, Dr Wei Zhang , a professor of food science, is focusing on improving food safety for everyone. At the Illinois Institute of Technology, Dr Wei Zhang is studying three of these foodborne bacterial pathogens: Salmonella, Listeria and E. 420,000 of those people die.

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How philosophers have influenced the way you think about race

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TALK LIKE A HISTORIAN AND PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE Biological racism — prejudice against people based on the mistaken belief that ‘race’ is a part of a person’s biology and indicates race-specific traits like intelligence or work ethic Heredity — genetically passing on characteristics from biological parent to child.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

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“The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says. Ian’s team has a vision of building a ‘bio-based economy’ in Australia, focusing on ways to improve agriculture and waste processing through the creation of unique microbes.

Biology 73
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Can we decipher the mechanisms that allow plant cells to communicate?

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We have some ideas… but it’s a little too early to discuss them,” says Dave. RESEARCH PROJECT : Investigating how important signals move between plant cells to aid with development and growth. FUNDERS : US National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Agriculture. This is what makes his research so exciting.

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Can machine learning cope with the erratic and uncertain nature of the real world?

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At the University of Southern California , USA, Dr Haipeng Luo has been conducting innovative new research in the field of machine learning to bring these exciting technologies within reach. Haipeng’s second idea was to use multiple copies of the base algorithm and run them for different lengths of time.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Figuring out more and more science. And painstakingly laying out page after page of what on May 14, 2002, would be published as A New Kind of Science. I’ve written before (even in the book itself ) about the intellectual journey involved in the creation of A New Kind of Science. Developing new kinds of computational diagrams.

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