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The signs are important fundraiser Coaching Staff and the centers for new drugs. On the one like that ok ok. Yes im only up and. The ancient lady that was introduced to europe in america has a form of biological pest control b. S. Is to fight atheists because an asian lady bird eats a few 1000 of them jerk its lifetime. The green arrows show where and when the insect was artificially introduced a pest control. But in the early 2000 something unexpected had. The asian lady that began to spread uncontrollably and displace native species. To survive just plotz little southerly path of my life apart and wed like to know that what is not is this suddenly world wide spread that was what enabled it for do that but also as a gracious after that is what we want to find out if we are dealt with an issue thats missed money mccleon. Im dressed her chin skirts will take some lady bows to germany to analyze them. 6 Tufts University boston usa. The socalled silk lab is one of the universitys more exotic research departments. Here everything revolves around smoke and around los producing most fascinating material silk. Gear and so on my next joins Tufts University in 2005. Began to get interested in simplicity. And started to see silkworms in a totally light. Its Pretty Amazing actually because if you if you take a look at it. You can actually see the see the so its red so right now its right its been. This is a 3 d. Printer that this material that is there comes out of it has out of out of here as a 3rd of a tesla strength as deal and that is beautiful. And that it is a professor of Biomedical Engineering ringback. Hes interested in the properties of the material silkworms produce. A believes that still can help protect the environment sulfide plastic waste. And also in that city could soon replace many other material. Silkworms produce about one kilometer of sent to bill back to us humans have used silk fibers for thousands of years to produce textiles. But now the boston researches have succeeded in transforming cells into a new material with breaths. Thank you but its a case. Of this the silk needs to be transformed back into a liquid similar to the fluid in sex produces before spencer struck. First the research is coming up the can do so for alcohol. Extract the silk proteins of the course of several tanks. And so now its proven impossible to artificially manufacture the substance of the insect produces in its glass. Its a mixture of silk find a decent cool sanderson and most of. The symptoms spins it straight it removes the water from simply to the fibers and servicing then stick together and light it extremely strong. In a certain sense you go back to what the what the silkworm does so and so you take you take the native fibers and you bring them back to a liquid suspension of of silk fibroid protein and water and then and then depending on how the water evaporates or how you remove the water how quickly how slowly and under what conditions and what temperatures you get different material outcomes and so and so the material came together in very very amazing technological form and so you think about a lot of things and you try to connect them and i think thats the beauty of the beauty of working in this and this domain. Similar to plastic liquid silk can be shaped into lumps of different phone use. The 1st research is trying to spin a simple friday just like the cell. Thread just carefully extract it from a drug while going to a real. Got to keep something. So want to see do differently. To lose from its outrageous it is a long way toward my bicycle. 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In the universities greenhouse and driest coaches cast breeds ladybirds. One lady can eat up to 300 all states. This is one of the centurys welcome. Once considered blocking. The luck of its heat from the race its a tax everything out of. Their advertisers and since. This is especially true of the view that nation made. It displaces in every species well john might but why. In the barn 300 s. Coaching staff and his team preparing experiments. Because unowned a bigger lab of a european may do good together with the younger small amount of contagion and thats. The reason for this what researchers have expected the people who eats the small. Event something happens. 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Ive been researching insects and their immune systems are 20 years ive investigated thousands of insects on hooks for never seen anything like those just and ive only seen those images like these in the us i guess i will jet and follow the path and you of us you should have never seen this in a live animal doesnt fly the story produces all seem so awful. The asian lady pat must have an extremely powerful immune system. But how it doesnt stay friends may consider. The Tufts University in boston the scientists that managed to extract the silk right from the trunk. Secret because finding the right never the past human to see is going to be a way to maybe build. A little hint of the name of a microbe on my community. Now they are able to spin a continuous strong front from a quick fight scene. But a few doors further down theyre already working on the next exciting complication is a bit of the in the inside the inside prosody yeah. Its 3 d. Printer is programmed to produce an artificial from liquid so. The advantage is that the human body doesnt she. Still makes trying the printer is designed to do so for a few months. Until the body has come to the suit scaffolding with bugs created to keep them open until the other end i do become a green body and then after that will center and thats when it really gets the fabulous grid. Its a beautiful process the transition from a liquid suspension to to a solid format of material but the pragmatics are that our balls our organs are very multi scale complex organisms and so and so out of that wide array of possibilities you need to match something at all sky. Order for it to integrate as if it were part of the living system that is a very significant challenge so is it going to be a reality. Probably is it going to be hard absolutely. The implant only exists in the lab. But the research is a time sooner versity have achieved a breakthrough. They have proven that in principle soft snow can be transformed into hot back. Into the fold or a just want to put a run through just because skills to the test 1st she prepares a special meal for the red liquid contains 30 percent sugar for the green only 0 point one percent the insects are offered both food sources at the same time on identical tables the past of the food sources are also of the same length so this time the ansto have to find the shortest way to discover the best food source. First the answer to get to explore the new structure. They quickly discover the 2 bridges on the dishes with the 2 different sugars so. Theres a lot of traffic on the regions but after not being able stringfellow my concentration to read the solution. The other is virtually certain. Its a canter thats almost just and the interesting thing left is the stiffness city of the system secure if only id still have to compare the fates of reasons off it all the better the food of the more intensely they mark the path that doesnt add to climbing up the field and just get out thats just the end of one of us really just so there is value to think says he didnt like that quality it doesnt leave us in that buffet imo its simply follows the stronger ferreted introduced the show the system is not really simple that he did according. The quality of the film goes like the similarity or fewer fairly appollo its a system thats very easy to communicate and has also been calling a simple. I took up to. Be at scale state system is of particular interest to logistics engineers. The engineers are from here because the tutorial flow just ticks and dont mean just developing this morning its going to translate its awesome transports are still a good place. The results speak you can translate. Those under nomic foursomes now the think about dynamics is ours is where the fast changing conditions for example enter shrubs one of the most lives is it then so our arms are superior because the robots will have to know what lands its a lot of confidence in our. Friends of ever not just want to read what might john amicably respond to childish love again all 5. Of the books have to expose this to take its place its a competitive system they need to bid for every job. The 1st machine signals its a close call the 2nd one has a full of bactrim but the good ones make it the job because it can carry you along the way. However this sometimes least the strength of the system looks just like ants robots from the trunk of the road. But these are marked with wife i see that if you found some explain. How i look at the robots encounter an obstacle never gets played for security reasons we stop immediately when something blocks that one a. Small amount its a good look around the try to discover a new. Market with. The robot however needs a little help. The asian lady betty still hasnt revealed the secret of its powerful immune system but the scientists are close to solving the riddle. They want to infect the beetle with particularly aggressive germs to do so they fix it under the microscope. They suspect that the beatles blood its hema lymph contains effective substances against multidrug resistant bacteria socalled super bugs. Ladybirds immune system immediately react to. It discharges small molecules that attack the intruders in front of this. These molecules have huge potential for the development of drug. What is the exact nature of these substances 1st the researches must obtain a small amount of the ladybirds plant however they dont need to prod it with a needle its enough to briefly shake it as a defense reaction the beetle releases small amounts of its bitter tasting hema them and with it tiny quantities of the unknown germ cutting substances. While the ladybird recovers from its White Knuckle ride the scientists prepare the mass spectrometer in the universe to slap. This machine is the sharpest tool in that box. This bomb bomb. Bomb bomb. Bomb. This is one of us and show us is pure savvy assuming we barely knew all of us that we didnt help before before have not been stopped im not but this is one side and as far as and they can its good not just like a c. On ours looking into the sky when tail storms move pope and under one study what i mean is this honestly dont look at small details multiple champions even the climate that has the astronomers and they also always see corellas so normal or doesnt it will go for certain but no one point we were ever the might get caught saddam and so make all possible things that where all those issues are substance in the sand the health and good news the for the benefit of humanity its been rough. Back at Tufts University silk lab in boston. The silk worms only need one thing to grown produce their miracle material. Nonpolice. For 4 weeks they chop their way through the foliage increasing their original body weight 10000 for. The fact that the researches of found the way to make simply quit again has opened up completely new possibilities. Political advice material can be easily combined with medicines and shaped into new forms. The researches of discovered the drugs integrated into the silk structure state active for longer. This opens up new possibilities for transporting storing vaccines for example without having to worry about refrigeration. And since silk becomes hot unstable when dry the list of applications seems endless. Speculating about the future there is a medical side that is really predicated on the fact that you have a material that interfaces well with living tissue but beyond the medical you know if you really think. Think forward you will have you can eat some to eat sensors and they will communicate and tell you how youre you know tell you something about your food whether their food is good or not whether its time to sew it away whether youre healthy. And its not only about so i think its going to be about a general platform based on naturally the right material you may have a phone that you can plant in your garden when youre done using using it or not. So want to silt could become an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic and thats how south waste problem. 3 at the Natural History museum cons were just an unusual meeting takes place the architect i think lincolns has come to see the Insect Researchers thomas not because. Hes interested in sex but considering. 6 which of us. Theyre interested in a colorado potato beetle that wouldnt. Actually mangas is a professor of architecture and computer aided design at the university of chicago in germany. By studying insects he wants to discover a new Design Principles and create innovative structures. Promised fear of the colorado potato beetle because it can cause serious cropped up. It also has a very hard shell. Its striking yellow and black when cases protect the sensitive hind legs which it uses to find. The wing cases must be both tough and light otherwise the beetle couldnt fly the architect is interested in the structure of these cases. That are too often one for guns on the human nature we find totally different construction pressures to destroy those found in the history of engine or occasional clerking texture. This allows us to think outside the box and outside fix to ignore it and question the way we look at things stands a constitutional law as a stand where you discover noise principles that stand go beyond what you already know to be. In order to uncover the secrets of the beatles wings the 2 scientists take the insects to the constituent technology cultural. Institute has a gigantic particle accelerator that produces extremely precise x. Ray radiation. The scientists want to use it to analyze the beatles wings for which. This is the speciality insect exposed Thomas Monica 2 2. The x. Ray images show that the case of the potato beetle consists of 2 separate shells. That is hollow the assertion with an undertone that. An extremely lightweight construction with cutting its mark the binds or that it was all countries are going to disorder small columns connect the upper and lower house of the way up a shiny between them so the large cavity the sides can notice business bizarreness and to see it see the bright spots show the places where the 2 shells are connected. And one of them on my skin. And its on the seen on those also. The winged case of the potato beetle consists of closely into one of them find. The architect is especially interested in the columns between the 2 shots which of holmes by thick bundles of mine. To transfer the forces between the other and the lower shelves. From these columns by the spread out in many Different Directions this network of minds makes the structure of our lives at stake. I think a symptom of mine and i think that although one head we marvel at what nature is for yet it some of the other hand will wonder why this idea hasnt crossed engineerings before on off to tell thirdly we realize that this is this is about evolution that we can call the relatively easily methods as long as its this on this earth what makes it so exciting hold up something on the spo