Category Archives: Research

Sugar boost for photosynthetic microorganisms to improve biotechnology applications

Posted on April 6, 2022 by ninber

Today’s society is still to a great extent dependent on fossil fuels because we use them plenty to e.g. run our vehicles, heat our homes, provide us with electricity and power different industrial sectors. As is well known, fossil fuels … Continue reading →

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Saako evoluutionäkökulman yhdistää kielenmuutokseen?

Posted on February 21, 2022 by rsmval

Halusin nuorna tyttönä elää keskiajalla. Hoitaa eläimiä ja elää metsästä. Sittemmin tajusin, että mielikuva ihmisen ja luonnon harmonisesta suhteesta oli vahvasti liioiteltu ja että ihmisillä oli tapana kuolla nuorena ja sairaina. Päädyin vain tutkimaan menneisyyttä. Otin akateemista vauhtia ekologisesta lajiutumisesta, … Continue reading →

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Early life nutrition for lifelong benefit: An insight from gut microbiome research into my baby’s feeding journey

Posted on January 3, 2022 by ninber

Over the past six years, I received various opportunities to explore a small-but-diverse universe, a collection of microorganisms that lives within us, known as the human microbiome. This fast-developing research field of human microbiome led me to venture out from … Continue reading →

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Bioteknologian keinoin homemyrkkyjä vastaan

Posted on November 1, 2021 by ninber

Kirjoittaja: tutkijatohtori Riikka Peltomaa, Luonnontieteiden, lääketieteen ja tekniikan tutkijakollegiumi Homemyrkyt eli mykotoksiinit ovat homesienten tuottamia yhdisteitä, jotka voivat aiheuttaa ihmisille ja eläimille vakavia terveydellisiä haittoja sekä äkillisesti että pitkäaikaisen altistumisen seurauksena. Otollisissa olosuhteissa näitä myrkkyjä tuottavat sienilajit voivat muodostaa homekasvustoja … Continue reading →

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A Pessimist in the Academia

Posted on October 18, 2021 by rsmval

I am a bit of a pessimist. It is not that I do not believe things will work out in the end, it is just that I do not think they are likely to work out for the best. Presumably, … Continue reading →

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Tähtienvälistä pölyä ja vuosittaisia supernovaräjähdyksiä

Posted on September 6, 2021 by ninber

Suurimman osan ajasta tähdet ovat tasapainossa tähden omaan energiantuotantoon perustuvan paineen ulospäin työntämän voiman ja tähden oman massan sisäänpäin vetävän painovoiman välillä. Tähtien energiantuotannon lähde on ydinfuusio, jossa kevyemmät alkuaineet muuttuvat raskaammiksi, kuten vety heliumiksi, vapauttaen energiaa tähden ytimessä. Massiivisimmissa … Continue reading →

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Biomimicry: A fairway to seek sustainable solutions for a better world

Posted on August 2, 2021 by ninber

Biomimicry is “Innovation Inspired from Nature.” It is nothing but learning from nature or taking design ideas from nature. It is a new way of inventing by looking at the natural world for inspiration. When I was in school and … Continue reading →

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Medicinal Chemistry: an essential field in dire need of dedicated experts

Posted on April 6, 2021 by sisuka

I was in Italy when the first case of COVID-19 appeared in China, but when things became more serious globally, I moved back to India. Suddenly Italy, the place that was like a second home to me, got wrecked by … Continue reading →

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Exploring unconventional ways to make physical systems compute

Posted on March 1, 2021 by sisuka

There are many tasks of practical interest that are not suited for conventional computer algorithms. Suppose for instance that we want to turn speech into text. Although it is easy for us to prepare examples of speech and the corresponding … Continue reading →

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Search for a Vanished River

Posted on February 15, 2021 by rsmval

A couple of weeks ago, Mikel Calle Navarro discussed the concept of the river in his exciting entry in this same blog. I spontaneously commented it, because I had previously pondered the same problematic, albeit in a different context. As … Continue reading →

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