Over the last few years, the food-as-medicine concept has gained momentum- thanks to physicians’ and practitioners’ awareness about making food an integral part of treatment for chronic illnesses along with their medications. Scientists at Harvard Chan School of Public health have found a link between food and many health conditions such as obesity, longevity, a …
Biotechnology has dramatically increased the supply of many pharmaceuticals and other products for human consumption, especially thanks to the technique of heterologous expression, which seeks to express genes in a “heterologous system”, a different organism from the one that originally produced the compound. Perhaps the greatest example is human insulin, a polypeptide hormone that is …
The robotics industry has been taking over almost every part of our homes, so how can the kitchen be spared from this revolution? The next generation of kitchen appliances is here , and this time the goal is not just to aid humans, but to replace them from the kitchen altogether. What are Kitchen Robotics? …
Biotechnological successes are often reinforced by a social need or desire. The rise of alternate proteins, insect based foods and other “new” foods has become the cornerstone of the new food industry. The trend towards vegetarian and vegan diets means more people are looking for meat-free protein alternatives. A lot of work has gone into …
The safety of the food we eat is more important now than ever before. In the post COVID era, people are more alert to how their food is produced and food safety is of utmost importance to manufacturers. The most obvious solution to the problem, of course, is automating the process of food manufacturing through …
Agriculture has undergone some transformations throughout history, some based on empiricism and others more on superstition. The reforms that have been preserved today have undergone a kind of natural selection, discarding those that are not productive enough to perpetuate the system. Of course, the primary objective of modifying the method of cultivation is to take …
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The last-mile delivery of food is the most expensive and time-consuming part of the food delivery supply chain. Last-mile food delivery alone amounts to almost 53% of the total shipment cost in the industry. While online food delivery websites have boomed over the last years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, reviews still reflect poor satisfaction …
The alternative-to-traditional meat market is entering an interesting feedback loop. External and very diverse factors support this trend: mainly climatic, sanitary and ethical. The latter will be the ones that will end up making governments act in order to prevent cruel situations for traditionally farmed animals. A few days ago, the case of the Vivotecnia …
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The effects of climate change are evident in multiple areas. Even the most skeptical cannot deny the great evidence of global warming, such as coral bleaching – which means a mass death of thousands of benthic organisms such as polyps, which are indispensable for the balance of an ecosystem as complex as the marine one. …
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The ability of a microbiome to adulterate the physiology of an organism has recently been highlighted. This is due to a dependence generated by a close symbiotic relationship, where commensal bacteria degrade products that our human genes cannot degrade, accelerating and diversifying digestion. In other words, our microbiome is proof of the success of coevolutionary …
