11 January 2021
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The Foo Fighters frontman’s eldest child, 14-year-old Violet, is already showing signs of following in his footsteps and though he tries to take a step away from her ambitions, he’s very impressed by her visions for her musical future.
He said: “I did ask her the other day, ‘If you were to make a record, how do you imagine it would sound?’ And she said, ‘You know, I think somewhere within that shoegaze thing. Oh, and Dad, I need to get this new guitar pedal. It’s called Loveless, and I want my guitar to sound like My Bloody Valentine.’
Study highlights racial disparities in liver transplantation listing
A new study of liver transplant centers confirms that non-Hispanic white patients get placed on liver transplant waitlists at disproportionately higher rates than non-Hispanic Black patients. However, researchers went a step further as they identified key reasons for that disparity: disproportionate access to private health insurance, travel distance to transplant centers, and a potential lack of knowledge among both practitioners and patients about available options.
The study was selected for the 2020 Southern Surgical Association Program and published as an article in press on the website of the
Journal of the American College of Surgeons in advance of print.
Air Protein yet to disclose when first product could be launched
US agri-food giant Archer Daniels Midland and the VC arm of Google owner Alphabet have taken part in the Series A round of Air Protein, a US start-up making meat from the elements of air.
California-based Air Protein has raised US$32m, funding it said would help invest in R&D and in commercialising a business that combines oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen with water and other mineral nutrients . A probiotic production process uses cultures to convert the elements into food.
Central to Air Protein s premise is the prediction from the UN that the planet will need to increase food production by 70% on only 5% more land to meet the forecast 10bn people on Earth in 2050.