Category: microbiology

Industrializing Ancient Secret Ingredient May Bring Cheaper Better Quality Chocolate

Australian researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) are attempting to industrialize the fermentation of cocoa beans to make the production of chocolate more controllable and less expensive. Chocolate has become a staple in the pantries of most households in which it is consumed quite regularly, particularly around, the upcoming holiday, Easter. Despite…


Xenobots: Cell-Based Living Robots That Can Self-Replicate

Swarms of tiny living robots have discovered the ability to self-replicate, i.e. reproduce, through the process of gathering single cells and assembling them together to form new organisms, through a unique process not seen until now in plants or animals. Researchers Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin, and Josh Bongard; from Tufts University, Harvard, and…