Bacteriophages are viruses that attack bacteria killing them. They are inanimate and can be considered dead till they infect the bacteria where they multiply. Phages were approved by the FDA in 2006 for their application in food to control Listeria infections. Link to paper: https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085%2806%2902235-9/fulltext This has continued for sometime, since multiple strains can be…
Green caviar Near Okinawa in japan, which in known for people who live longer than many other people a unique food is eaten. These are small orbs that look like grapes and are eaten raw. They are actually a species of seaweed. This is know as green caviar and is eaten on top of almost…
It used to be difficult to model compounds or proteins and they had to be done in specific programs. Now a good website is all you need to draw a complex compound, or in some cases you can just write the molecule name and it can come up with the three dimensional structure of the…
This was in a LinkedIn Post by Jeffrey Low and was from a survey done by Endpoints news and it is so correct that it is very difficult to translate animal models to human biology. This is coming from a group of about 500 verified subscribers who were asked in October 2025. The survey also…
The foods that we eat undergo processing in some form or another. A basic process might be heating or cooking, and besides the raw vegetables/fish that are more common, it is very difficult to eat foods that have not been processed. Currently, there are also doubts about ultra processed foods that add extra sugar, lipids…
As AI has progressed generating code, writing, music or other intelligent language based skills through an LLM there is a parallel growth in detection of AI generated content. Like everything AI, it is a probability game. Trying to estimate the combination of words/tokens and comparing with what is in the model. Using a standard model…
It is surprising that we do not realize that many foods or plants that we eat have other properties and many of them medicinal. Consider the lowly peppermint plant – It is an hybrid of the water mint and Spearmint. Dried leaves from the plant were found in the Egyptian pyramids and was also valued…
There are many components that go into making an AI system in a home-lab system. One major component is Docker. For those who do not know it, this enables running a virtual system within the operating system that is currently running on the hardware. What makes Docker powerful is that it abstracts away most of…
Consider In-vitro fertilization (IVF). The research for that had begun in early 1900’s till the first successful IVF transplantation and successful birth in 1978. It took several years for the technology to get adopted till nearly 50 years later when about 1-2% of all births are now IVF enabled. One of the issues that bogged…
It is amazing to see how soon the Drone’s have become part of the culture as event enders with Drone shows or even main events. Drone technology using 4 motors started becoming mainstream when FAA issued the first permits in 2006 and the production of DJI Phantom 4 in 2016, though the first phantoms started…
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