First EUCHIS webinars on Chitin and Chitosans: Patterns of Acetylation and 3D Printing
Today at 11 am, the European Chitin Society EUCHIS launched its first Chitin & Chitosans webinar, in an attempt to close the communication gap between EUCHIS conferences caused by the pandemic. Our last meeting has been in Seville in 2017, the next one had been planned for 2019 in Ireland. We had to postpone it for technical reasons to 2020 when it was planned to be held in Kazan, Russia. The pandemic forced us to postpone again, first to 2021, now to 2022. During a recent virtual Board meeting, Dr. Gregor Tegl suggested to organize a monthly webinar on Chitin & Chitosans, including other biopolymers as they relate to chitin and chitosans. The idea met with broad approval, and Gregor volunteered to take the responsibility. We decided to have two talks each time, one from an experienced researcher and one from a young scientist, 20 minutes each, with a short discussion. Today, we started! As the cu
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From Apples And Pumpkins: News From Microbiome Research
How much the composition of the microbiome of apples and pumpkins depends on the geography of the location and what findings can be derived from this for the breeding, health and shelf life of the fruit is shown in two current publications by researchers at TU Graz.
We refer to the microbiome as the community of microorganisms that exist in or on all organisms, including bacteria and fungi. A team from the Institute for Environmental Biotechnology at Graz University of Technology, headed by institute director Gabriele Berg, has now examined the microbiomes of apples and pumpkins in more detail in two independent studies. The researchers have found that bacteria useful for plants are largely “inherited”, i.e. passed on to the next generation, while the community of fungi in the microbiome is heavily dependent on the respective soil microbiome and thus on the location.
3D Printed Robotic ‘Elephant Trunk’ is Guided by Machine Learning
Taking their inspiration from nature, researchers have designed a low-cost robotic arm that mimics the strength and flexibility of an elephant’s trunk.
Image Credit: Villiers Steyn/Shutterstock.com
In terms of design, the elephant s trunk is one of evolution’s foremost triumphs. The appendage an extension of the animal’s nose and its upper lip is both strong and flexible with a level of dexterity that is unmatched, even by our own arms.
In fact, containing an immense 40,000 muscles, an elephant’s trunk contains considerably more muscles than a human’s entire body.
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