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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. The genome of Salmonella contains more than 4,000 protein-coding genes, many of which play roles in bacterial stress resistance, motility, biofilm production and virulence,” he adds.

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

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Dave and his team used a genetics technique known as ‘screening’ to search for genes that are involved in the transport of the KNOTTED1 RNA signal molecule. We have some ideas… but it’s a little too early to discuss them,” says Dave. FUNDERS : US National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Agriculture. WHAT IS NEXT?

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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. How to engineer a microbe Synthetic biology makes use of the rapidly progressing science of genetic engineering, which involves changing an organism’s genes so that it will express different proteins.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

From projects that get completed within months of their conception, to projects that rely on years (and sometimes even decades) of systematic development. And all too often when I show people what’s possible, I’ll get the response “I had no idea the Wolfram Language could do that !” Our R&D portfolio is broad.

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. But it is only now—with ideas that have emerged from our Physics Project —that I think I can pull all the pieces together and finally be able to construct a proper framework to explain why—and to what extent—the Second Law is true.