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Might be your future protein shake that starts in a trash bin 😅
A maggots that turn food waste into ~45% protein in ~2 weeks hv the future. Not sure I’m ready to eat that, but the science is fascinating. Do you see this in your shake?
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
#Science #FoodFuture
A maggots that turn food waste into ~45% protein in ~2 weeks hv the future. Not sure I’m ready to eat that, but the science is fascinating. Do you see this in your shake?
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
#Science #FoodFuture
Maggots Are an Incredibly Efficient Source of Protein, Which May Make Them the Next Superfood for Humans
Inexpensive to raise and insatiably hungry for trash, black soldier fly larvae are already on the menu for livestock, pets and, maybe soon, people
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Might be your future protein shake that starts in a trash bin 😅
A maggots that turn food waste into ~45% protein in ~2 weeks hv the future. Not sure I’m ready to eat that, but the science is fascinating. Do you see this in your shake?
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
#Science #FoodFuture
A maggots that turn food waste into ~45% protein in ~2 weeks hv the future. Not sure I’m ready to eat that, but the science is fascinating. Do you see this in your shake?
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
#Science #FoodFuture
Deforestation is actually making mosquitoes pickier, and they're choosing us.
Wildlife's disappearing, so mosquitoes are switching to the easiest target around people.
This could mean more dengue, Zika, yellowfever www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#Deforestation #MosquitoBorneDisease #OneHealth
Wildlife's disappearing, so mosquitoes are switching to the easiest target around people.
This could mean more dengue, Zika, yellowfever www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#Deforestation #MosquitoBorneDisease #OneHealth
Forest loss is driving mosquitoes’ thirst for human blood
In the rapidly disappearing Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes are adapting to a human-dominated landscape. Scientists found that many species now prefer feeding on people rather than the forest’s diverse wi...
www.sciencedaily.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Deforestation is actually making mosquitoes pickier, and they're choosing us.
Wildlife's disappearing, so mosquitoes are switching to the easiest target around people.
This could mean more dengue, Zika, yellowfever www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#Deforestation #MosquitoBorneDisease #OneHealth
Wildlife's disappearing, so mosquitoes are switching to the easiest target around people.
This could mean more dengue, Zika, yellowfever www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#Deforestation #MosquitoBorneDisease #OneHealth
The more we dissect T4P systems, the clearer it gets: they're not some niche thing, they're evolutionary templates. Explains way more than just motility.
nature.com/articles/s41...
So... which other bacterial system evoleved from T4P?
#BacterialEvolution #TypeIVPili #Nanomachines
nature.com/articles/s41...
So... which other bacterial system evoleved from T4P?
#BacterialEvolution #TypeIVPili #Nanomachines
January 11, 2026 at 5:01 AM
The more we dissect T4P systems, the clearer it gets: they're not some niche thing, they're evolutionary templates. Explains way more than just motility.
nature.com/articles/s41...
So... which other bacterial system evoleved from T4P?
#BacterialEvolution #TypeIVPili #Nanomachines
nature.com/articles/s41...
So... which other bacterial system evoleved from T4P?
#BacterialEvolution #TypeIVPili #Nanomachines
So this surprised me: the same ion channel that helps us taste sweet and bitter can be turned on, tuned, or shut down from one tiny pocket. I didn’t realize TRPM5 works like a volume knob for taste cells. Still thinking about what that means beyond flavor. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#IonChannels
#IonChannels
A single allosteric site merges activation, modulation and inhibition in TRPM5 - Nature Chemical Biology
TRPM5 activation requires Ca2+ binding at an S1–S4 pocket in the transmembrane domain (TMD) and a modulatory site in the intracellular domain (ICD). Structural and functional analyses of TRPM5 with Ca...
www.nature.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:50 AM
So this surprised me: the same ion channel that helps us taste sweet and bitter can be turned on, tuned, or shut down from one tiny pocket. I didn’t realize TRPM5 works like a volume knob for taste cells. Still thinking about what that means beyond flavor. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#IonChannels
#IonChannels