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The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food

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Anjan Contractor’s 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. And indeed Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer.

But Contractor, a mechanical engineer with a background in 3D printing, envisions a much more mundane—and ultimately more important—use for the technology. He sees a day when every kitchen has a 3D printer, and the earth’s 12 billion people feed themselves customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store. Contractor’s vision would mean the end of food waste, because the powder his system will use is shelf-stable for up to 30 years, so that each cartridge, whether it contains sugars, complex carbohydrates, protein or some other basic building block, would be fully exhausted before being returned to the store.

(via The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food - Quartz)

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Art Competition Shows Off the Unexpected Beauty of Science

Science isn’t just about collecting data and making charts and graphs. Experiments often produce moments of inspiring beauty: A dye dropped into water gives the impression of a green flame erupting from a murky black sea. Boring black cobalt oxide becomes brilliant blue when heated to 800 degrees Celsius. And an image of coral takes on a different character when two eyes suddenly peer out from its center.

The Art of Science competition at Princeton University challenges scientists to record the sometimes fleeting moments when science becomes art. This year’s competition drew 170 entries from 24 departments throughout the university; a jury selected three winners, and three additional entries were chosen by viewers.

Here are a few of our favorites from among the entries, with captions written by the artists … er, scientists. (via Art Competition Shows Off the Unexpected Beauty of Science | Wired Science | Wired.com)

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Mr. T - Survivor of T-cell Cancer!

See the cancer I have is called cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma CD3. You know – I mean one thing you have the T-Cell Lymphoma, then you got the CD3 part like some secret agent scientific stuff you know.

             Mr. T (TV interview)

Mycosis fungoides

Mycosis fungoides is the most common type of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (44%), which has led some people to use the name synonymously with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

The name is very misleading as it implies that the disease is a mushroom/fungal disease. It isn’t. It is in fact a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that is caused by the clonal expansion of T-helper cells. In most cases, this is a chronic, slowly progressive disease that usually begins as erythematous (red) scaly patches that over time evolve into a skin tumor that has the external appearance of a mushroom (hence the name).

The image shows the histology of a biopsy taken from an area of skin with one of these mushroom like lesions. You can see that the keratinocytes of the epidermis have minimal spongiosis (swelling) but, there is something weird happening at the dermo-epidermal junction! I see a linearly arranged band of infiltrating lymphocytes that extend into the epidermis and I don’t see any nice dermal papillae projecting into the the epidermis - instead there is evidence of fibroplasia (formation of fibrous material).

Can you also make out some macrophages containing melanin mixed in with the lymphocyte infiltrate in the dermis?

For more info on mycosis fungoides visit Dermatology Online

This is literally the most hilarious thing….

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(Source: malikplanet)