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Got Food Allergies? Thanks to UCLA, You Can Test Your Meal on the Spot Using a Cell Phone

By Guest PostDecember 16, 2012Health, Technologyahmet f coskun, allergen concentration, allergens, allergic, almonds, andrew tey, aydogan ozcan, bioengineering, cell phone, colorimetric assay, data, delaram khodadadi, detect, eggs, electrical engineering, food allergies, food samples, function, geographic information, gluten, hazelnuts, itube, justin wong, peanuts, richie nagi, sensitivity, smart phone application, statistical allergy database, test tube

Are you allergic to peanuts and worried there might be some in that cookie? Now you can find out using a rather unlikely source: your cell phone.

A team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a lightweight device called the iTube, which attaches to a common cell phone to detect allergens in food samples. The iTube attachment uses the cell phone’s built-in camera, along with an accompanying smart-phone application that runs a test with the same high level of sensitivity a laboratory would. (more…)

A Tailored Pair of Genes

By Guest PostNovember 22, 2011Scienceagriculture, alfalfa like legume, ancestor of legumes, ancestral genes, ancient plants, asteroid, backbone of protein, bacteria, beans, cretaceous period, crop plants, demise of the dinosaurs, dinosaurs, disaster, earth, eggs, fertilizers, genes, genetically engineer legumes, genomes, humans, legumes, living together, major nutrient, medicago truncatula, model, nevin young, nitrogen, nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer, nitrogen fixation, nitrogen fixing bacteria, nonsynthetic nitrogen fertilizer, peanuts, peas, sequencing genome, soybeans, sperm, synthetic fertilizer, university of minnesota

*For ancient plants, two genes were definitely better than one*

In the wake of the disaster that killed the dinosaurs, the ancestors of today’s crop plants reinvented themselves.

They doubled their genomes, and in that single act set the stage for feeding the world 60 million years later.

In a study published in the Nov. 16 issue of the journal Nature, researchers from the University of Minnesota and other institutions recount how sequencing the genome of a model, alfalfa-like legume revealed the monumental benefits that flowed when the ancestor of legumes acquired an extra copy of every gene. (more…)

Cooking Mix Needs Recipe Fix

By PravdaDecember 28, 2010Healthbroccoli, carcinogens, cooking, ejaculation, fine science, grilled meat, healthfulness, hematopoiesis, knowledge of chemistry, marinating, mix drugs, olive oil, peanuts, peppers, pharmaceutical, selenium, seminal fluid

Cooking is a fine science similar to pharmaceutical one. The difference is that we do not mix drugs ourselves and trust this business to the professionals, while in cooking we have to rely exclusively on ourselves. In the meantime, basic knowledge of chemistry and medicine would be useful for any responsible cook.

This is the knowledge that products matching is based on, and it will help you make your food the most healthful and safe. (more…)

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Got Food Allergies? Thanks to UCLA, You Can Test Your Meal on the Spot Using a Cell Phone

A Tailored Pair of Genes

Cooking Mix Needs Recipe Fix