UNIT 5 ; INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIST
Chapter 9: Scientists create waterproof paper out of sugarcane waste.
Waterproof paper board can lessen billions of tones of landfill around the world. The scientist can help identify downstream product opportunities, or new manufacturing potential. Enormous and extremely exciting from ‘green’ potential of sugarcane does can make for the sugarcane industry. For made this product actually use more sugarcane plant and millions of tones of unused plant matter or biomass and provide only one promising commercial option. All process would potentially allow sugarcane grows and mills to team up with paper manufacturers, all from natural materials and 100 percent recyclable environment amicable.
Chapter 10: Scientist Learning to Target Bacteria Where They Live.
Bacteria can live at floating around as individual cells, is known as their “planktonic state”. They tougher to combat once for get established in a comfortable place. They can activate mechanisms like tiny pumps to expel antibiotics, share genes that confer protection against drugs, slow down their metabolism or become dormant, and making them harder to kill. Biofilm colonies disperse naturally in response to environmental factors or to spread and form new colonies. They might have found a potential key to biofilm dispersion in the oceans which scientists are mining for a variety of new drugs. They isolated a compound fronm sponge that disperses biofilms and figured out how to synthesize it quickly and cheaply.
