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Food Safety Using Robotics – Prevention of Contamination During Food Processing

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Food manufacturing is a very complex & labour intensive process. Human intervention is required at each stage of food processing – from the milling of grains or the deboning of meat to the storage and packaging of processed food. However, the recent pandemic and rise in food-borne diseases such as stomach flu and cholera have …

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3D Printing of Batteries

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With how far 3D printing has come to date, the applications of the technology seem to be endless. As well as the conventional headliners such as aerospace, medical, and automotive, companies and researchers alike are now using 3D printing to produce functional energy storage devices such as batteries. Lithium-ion batteries in particular have become essential …

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Algae Based BioFuel – A Promising Alternative or a Distant Myth?

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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 …

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Electrical Energy Storage using Synthetic Biology – Is there Potential?

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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 …

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Microbial Protein in Sustainable Food Supply

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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 …

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Bio-Manufacturing – Current State of Digital-to-Biological Converter

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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 …

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