The greatest challenge of containing COVID-19 continues to be that a carrier can be contagious for two days before developing symptoms. It’s impossible to know if you or those around you are sick at any given moment. By the time you do know, one infection could have spread to dozens of people. … [Read more...] about This breakthrough mask is a ‘smoke detector’ for COVID-19
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Lab-grown wood could let us grow furniture in a lab instead of in a forest
In a paper recently published the Journal of Cleaner Production, the researchers detail how they grew wood-like plant tissue from cells extracted from the leaves of a zinnia plant, without soil or sunlight. “The plant cells are similar to stem cells,” says Luis Fernando Velásquez-García, a principal scientist in MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories and co-author of the paper. “They have the potential to be many things.” … [Read more...] about Lab-grown wood could let us grow furniture in a lab instead of in a forest
