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Sep 15, 2017
This Brooklyn-Based Startup Is Growing Leather In Labs—Cruelty Free
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: food, genetics
Modern Meadow believes leather is a “co-product of the meat industry.” You can’t get cattle hide without stripping it from meat. Rather than configuring new ways to utilize polymers, the Brooklyn-based company genetically creates proteins similar to bovine collagen. As Inventionr reports :
Modern Meadow has formulated a method of activating the building blocks of proteins to form fibres without using natural fibroblasts. Once the fibres form, they can as well be assembled, according to its intended purposes, into fine sheets of leather. Once the process reaches this point, other processes like tanning and dyeing can proceed in the normal way.
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Sep 15, 2017
Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its new big-rig truck in October
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the battery-powered semi “a beast.” It is expected to be the electric-car company’s first venture into heavy-duty transportation.
Sep 15, 2017
We May Finally Have A Way To Stop Scars From Ever Forming
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: biotech/medical
Scientists in Australia are developing new compounds that they claimed could stop scars from forming in the first place. The compounds job is to stop an enzyme called lysyl oxidase, which enables the collagen in wound healing to crosslink, resulting in scar formation.
If you sustained an injury, whether it’s large or small, you’ll likely end up with a scar. Scars, after all, are the natural outcome of wound healing, and there’s typically few ways to avoid it. Until now, that is.
Sep 15, 2017
Why 500 million people in China are talking to this AI
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
IFlytek’s voice recognition technology is everywhere in China, and that’s what’s making it smarter every day.