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U Texas at Austin researchers rewire yeast for high lipid generation; 60x improvement over parent strains

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). Traditional methods to increase lipids yield rely on nitrogen starvation to trick yeast cells into storing fat and materials.

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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images. Sasson fixed those problems and was granted a U.S.

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UCSD, South 8 team report improved liquefied-gas electrolytes for Li-metal batteries

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The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. This work was supported by South 8 Technologies under National Science Foundation NSF SBIR program (grant no.

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Researchers successfully engineer E. coli to produce renewable propane; proof-of-concept

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Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. This research was funded by a grant from the European Research Council. coli bacteria. Kalim Akhtar & Patrik R.

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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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He was granted a patent in Germany last year. The app stores some medical information as well as records of the analytics and recommendations from past scans. Reading articles published in Spectrum helped him discover that he wanted a career in technology, he says. “So Tiwari filed for a U.S. patent for his invention in 2021.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv

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With lossless algorithms, as an IEEE Spectrum article explained in 2021, “bits disappear, making the data file dramatically smaller and thus easier to store and transmit,” but unlike lossy compression techniques such as the ones used with JPEG and MP3 files, the bits “reappear on command.”

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. MB of data.

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