2023 Brings with it a Fresh Whiff of...
...mmm, that good stuff😌
We're only a week into 2023, and there's already so much good to share. Here’s what I mean:
We're 🐝z:
There's a honeybee vaccine, for the 🐝s! Stay with me on this one. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted a biotech company a conditional license for their honeybee vaccine.
⚙️This is how it works:
American Foulbrood disease is a bacteria-based disease that is found to attack colonies made by Paenibacillus larvae. Honeybees play an enormous role in our ecosystem, and they have been victim to the American Foulbrood which until this point, had no sustainable or safe antidotes. Up until now, the only method to treat this highly contagious disease was the incineration of infected hives, the bees, and all the equipment. But not anymore. This vaccine strengthens the bee's immune system and helps it protect itself against Foulbrood disease.
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🤝Healing Together:
Slowly but steadily, our ozone layer is healing! In a new report by the United Nations, at its current pace, the hole over Antarctica would fully heal in around 43 years. This scientific assessment happens every once in four years and has finally uncovered recovery in progress.
It was about 35 years ago when every nation in the world collectively agreed to stop producing chemicals that bite into our ozone layer. And slowly but surely, our efforts to save our home don't go in vain but lead to fruition.
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🧑🔬A Milestone Moment:
With 200000 images in a new database, scientists have inferred details about the variation in the shapes of the cells and their components (including cells that are genetically identical and have been grown under the same conditions).
Allen Institute for Cell Science launched 8 years ago and has been working on this ever since.
This is what they call, a 'milestone moment' in cell biology.
Cool, but how does this help?
👇Here's how:
There is now potential to discover new treatments for diseases where cells are found to malfunction. Better yet, the findings and methods are generalizable to virtually any cell.
⚙️Here's how they did it:
For this study, researchers and scientists came up with a unique method of analyzing human cells. This method was found to produce new, unexplored information that goes beyond genomics: computationally derived, 3D spatial organization and morphology (which translates to the shape of a cell and how its internal components are arranged in a 3D space).
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💩Dung Will Take You Places:
No, literally.
A British company called Bennamann developed a groundbreaking machine that converts cow dung into fuel. For over a decade, Bennamann has been researching and developing biomethane production.
⚙️Here's how it works:
Waste byproducts produced from a small herd of only 100 cows is converted into a fuel known as fugitive methane and is stored in a storage unit for biomethane. Fitted on the tractor is a cryogenic tank that stores the methane in a liquid form. The methane is maintained in this tank at -162°C (-259.6°F). This fuel provides the vehicle with the power of a diesel engine but with notably less emissions.
During its pilot run on a farm in Cornwall, it was found that the carbon dioxide emissions were sliced from 2500 metric tons to 500 metric tons in only one year.
Bottom line is, sometimes sh*t happens, and it's a good thing.
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🤔Did You Know?
Today, January 11, 1940, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., became the first black general in the U.S. Army. Soon after, his son followed in his footsteps by becoming a general as well.
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