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Researchers find a way to grow wood in a lab, and it could curb global deforestation
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“If you want a table, then you should just grow a table,” Luis Fernando Velásquez-García, a principal scientist in MIT’s Microsystem’s technology laboratories, tells
MIT News. “The way we get these materials hasn’t changed in centuries and is very inefficient,” he adds. “This is a real chance to bypass all that inefficiency.” The first cells used were extracted from Zinnia leaves and cultured in growth media. They were then “tuned” with hormones to produce the desired tissue, in this case lignin.
PhD student Ashley Beckwith, the lead author, says the idea came after she spent time on a farm and saw the inefficiencies in agriculture, such as weather impacts, fertilizers ending up off the field, and the amount of plant material that goes unused. “That got me thinking: Can we be more strategic about what we’re getting out of our process? Can we get more yield for our inputs?” Beckwith says. “I wanted to find a more efficient way to use land and res
Credits: Image courtesy of the researchers Caption: The technology, as demonstrated in this chart, is still in early development but could one day reduce the heavy environmental footprint of agriculture and forestry. Credits: Image courtesy of the researchers
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It takes a lot to make a wooden table. Grow a tree, cut it down, transport it, mill it … you get the point. It’s a decades-long process. Luis Fernando Velásquez-García suggests a simpler solution: “If you want a table, then you should just grow a table.”
Researchers in Velásquez-García’s group have proposed a way to grow certain plant tissues, such as wood and fiber, in a lab. Still in its early stages, the idea is akin in some ways to cultured meat an opportunity to streamline the production of biomaterials. The team demonstrated the concept by growing structures made of wood-l
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According to the film’s synopsis provided by the production companies, Mateo (Rey) is taking on the most dangerous mountain on the planet, the Annapurna, for the first time – he has challenged himself to reach its peak and thus, despite all opposition, keep an old promise. However, during his ascent, he has an accident that leaves him unconscious and seriously injured. Hours later, he is rescued by the brave and feisty Ione (López Arnaiz), a seasoned mountain climber who – in the midst of a complicated time in her personal life – is spending the winter in a refuge, alone and cut off from the rest of the world. Despite her not understanding the reasons that brought the man all the way here, she will try to help him to accomplish his goal. The screenplay has been written by filmmaker
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