Allergies are increasingly common pathologies in human society. In the past, it was believed that they were due to an exaggerated reaction of the immune system to a specific antigen or a hypersensitive reaction. Today we know that it is actually the harmlessness of the external agent that leads to pathogenesis, paradoxically. In fact, there …
The ills of the current energy model are becoming increasingly evident in many environmental and health areas. Since humans became aware of the potential of fossil fuels, there has been no real profound change in how we use them. It is true that we have learned to store electrical energy and even developed fission nuclear …
Algae Based BioFuel – A Promising Alternative or a Distant Myth? Read More »
Many great scientists have argued throughout history about what living things are. Until not so long ago, minerals were considered the third kingdom of life, as they grew in the eyes of the experimenter from tiny particles to perfectly ordered crystals. The growth and reproduction of the characteristics contained in a body is therefore a …
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With the rise of renewable energy, the world faces a new problem to solve. During the years of the fossil fuel monopoly, energy storage was not a problem, since nature itself was responsible for providing these deposits. In contrast, the strategy to be followed with most renewable energies is different: the aim is to capture …
Electrical Energy Storage using Synthetic Biology – Is there Potential? Read More »
Since ancient times, humans have wanted to satisfy the demand for food, not only to please individual hunger like other animals but in order to maintain the stability of the communities. The first sedentary farmers appeared 12,000 years ago in the fertile crescent. Cattle raising and agriculture were the first strategies to ensure prosperity. Strange …
Global famine is a consequence of the misallocation of resources, but it also stems from exponential human growth. Every day more and more people suffer from malnutrition. While it is true that most of them live in underdeveloped or developing regions, these situations also exist in first-world countries. Moreover, the situation is expected to worsen …
Genetically Modified Crops – From Crop Pest to Food Sustainability Read More »
Biomass is defined as organic matter grown by the usual functioning of a living organism. This matter holds inside a multitude of compounds rich in bonds and therefore energy. Understanding the concept of biomass is not difficult, because we have always used it. I venture to say even more: without the primary production of plant …
All living things degenerate in health as they use their molecular machinery to extract nutrients and energy from the environment. We can say that aging is an obligatory disease of living beings. There are many reasons for this natural aging, losing telomerase action encoded in our genome, being lost is the main one. Telomeres are …
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 transformation of the environment is an intrinsic characteristic of nature. Not only the physical history of the universe, through cosmic collisions, exchanges of inert energies end up metamorphosing the principles of the matter that conforms us; but also, a magical conversion – somewhat alchemical –, occurs thanks to the action of living beings. The …
Bio-Manufacturing – Current State of Digital-to-Biological Converter Read More »
