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MIT Scientists Develop Food Sensor That Can Detect Spoiled or Contaminated Food

XTalks

MIT engineers have designed a food sensor , made from an array of silk microneedles, that can pierce through the plastic packaging of foods to sample for bacterial contamination and spoilage. Two kinds of specialized “bioinks” react to the bacterial presence and certain pH levels, which respectively detect contamination and spoilage.

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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for research into the evolutionary history of humankind

STAT News

A Swedish scientist won the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology on Monday for his groundbreaking research into the evolutionary history of humankind. Pääbo unlocked scientists’ understanding of how genes from these extinct relatives have been passed down to present-day humans.

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Scientists sound alarm about unprecedented mercury accumulation in Pacific Ocean trenches

Scienmag

Multi-national team of scientists discover amounts of mercury in the deepest trenches of the Pacific Ocean that exceed any value ever recorded in remote marine sediments – even higher than many areas directly contaminated by industrial releases.

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Dangerous hitchhikers: Visualizing how we spread COVID-19 within our homes

Medical Xpress

While COVID-19 can be transmitted via contact with contaminated objects, most studies have focused on airborne droplet transmission. Their results illustrate the importance of immediate hand sanitization upon returning to avoid contact infection, reinforcing the effectiveness of a good hygiene.

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Why the Next Generation of Drugs Can’t Depend on Legacy Drug Packaging

Pharma Mirror

By Christopher Weikart, Chief Scientist at SiO2 Materials Science Why is an incredibly innovative and forward-thinking industry like pharmaceuticals being held back by the products that haven’t changed in over a century?

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Bloom studying New York state communities exposed to PFAS contaminated drinking water

Scienmag

Erin Bell, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and Elizabeth Lewis-Michl, Research Scientist and Director, Division of Environmental Health Assessment at the New York State Department of Health, for […].

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What’s that growing on your face mask?

Scienmag

Scientist invents novel device to conveniently sanitize contaminated masks at home or at work Credit: Patrick Grant, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University COVID-19 has significantly increased public use of face masks to protect others from the wearer’s respiratory droplets as well as the wearer from airborne contaminants.