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No, spiders don’t want to mate with your viral body butter

TechCrunch

In addition to hyaluronic acid, the lotion is packed with flashy ingredients like copaiba resin, passionflower seed oil and prebiotic hibiscus […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Sol de Janeiro’s Delícia Drench Body Butter, which launched earlier this month, is quickly becoming a holy grail product among skincare enthusiasts.

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Gridtential thinks the OG renewable battery chemistry is ripe for disruption

TechCrunch

Lithium-ion batteries are one of the driving forces behind the transition away from fossil fuels, but the rechargeable battery that started it all — lead-acid — has received very little attention. Gridtential, a Santa Clara-based startup, is betting there’s plenty of room for improvement.

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Fyto combines automation, robotics so aquatic ‘superplants’ can grow almost anywhere

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The pilot concluded that the plants could be harvested year-round and were nutrient dense with amino acids, energy, vitamins, minerals and fatty acids shown to be highly palatable and digestible for cows. “We The advantages of this are no land preparation and the plants double every few days, in a controlled environment, all year long.

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A New Generation of Drug Therapies Requires New Business Strategies

Harvard Business Review

ATMs include engineered cell therapies that reprogram cells to fight disease, gene therapies that involve replacing or editing dysfunctional genes, and nucleic acid therapies that promote or shut down production of a protein.

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Forsaking funding at a $1 billion valuation, Solugen preps a new green chemical product and a big 2021

TechCrunch

Solugen’s new product will produce glucaric acid, a tough-to-make chemical that can be used in water treatment facilities and as an anti-corrosive agent — and the company can make it with a zero carbon (or potentially carbon negative) manufacturing process, according to Solugen co-founder and chief technology officer, Sean Hunt.

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How a new database architecture supports scale and reliability in TiDB

InfoWorld

The structured nature of relational databases, coupled with the innate ability to ensure the atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) of transactions, makes them indispensable in a world where data forms the core of business strategies. To read this article in full, please click here

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Neoplants bioengineers houseplants to use them as air purifiers

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For instance, it turns formaldehyde into fructose, and it turns BTEX compounds into an amino acid that the plant can use to produce proteins later. But the Neo P1 has been modified at the DNA level so that it produces new enzymes that can also metabolize air pollutants.

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