Deep Earth electrical grid mystery solved
To “breathe” in an environment without oxygen, bacteria in the ground beneath our feet depend upon a single family of proteins to transfer excess electrons, produced during the “burning” of nutrients, to electric hairs called nanowires projecting from their surface, found by researchers at UCIBIO-NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon (UCIBIO NOVA FCT) and Yale University.
Nitrogen Sensing Solutions was chosen the startup of the month by Link to Leaders
Nitrogen Sensing Solutions has been named the Startup of the Month by Link to Leaders, a leading platform that showcases innovative companies and their impact on diverse sectors. “This month we challenge Startup Leira to choose the start-up of the month. We chose Nitrogen Sensing Solutions, a deep tech company focused on developing intelligent sensors for monitoring water in aquaculture.”, as can be read in the article published by Link to Leaders.
UCIBIO is parte of the PROSPLIGN project awarded 3.4 M€
The PROSPLIGN project - PROSPecting natural LIGNin biodiversity towards unlocking value-added bioactive motifs and molecules – is an European funded Research and Innovation Action project awarded €3.4 Million euros and has officially kicked off in Dublin last week.
Arménio Barbosa awarded CPU and GPU time from RNCA for the SpikeLig project
Arménio Barbosa, researcher at the Biomolecular Engineering Lab, was awarded 100k and 2k hours of CPU and GPU time for the SpikeLig project, from RNCA, FCT, I.P..