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IMMENSE FUNGAL NETWORKS. "By some estimates, a typical mycorrhizal fungal filament is hundreds or thousand times the length of one tree root. Not only that, fungal filaments can anastomose with those of other species to craft what potentially is an indefinitely large network. We can only imagine what area such networks may encompass-who knows, they may literally span entire continents." https://lnkd.in/e4xrzsX View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT IN NATURE continues this weekend with the ancient and immense association between plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi. These symbiotic relationships are much more complex than initially envisioned, and bridge species, and can play a key role in developing giant plant ecosystems. These underground networks are also vast communication systems between plants. View in LinkedIn

SINGLE MOLECULES. "Acoustics can be used to manipulate single (bio) molecules such as DNA and proteins. This method, which the inventors name Acoustic Force Spectroscopy, allows one to measure the force response of single molecules." https://lnkd.in/e2nki6q View in LinkedIn

HANDS-FREE FACTORIES. "The next step, Andrade says, is weight and practical application. "Modern factories have hundreds of robots to move parts from one place to another," according to Andrade's statement. "Why not try to do the same without touching the parts to be transported?" https://lnkd.in/eVsJYXi View in LinkedIn

HANDS-FREE FACTORIES. "The breakthrough for Andrade's team was the ability to suspend particles while the emitter and reflector moved, leaving an inconsistent distance between them." https://lnkd.in/eVsJYXi View in LinkedIn

KNEE CARTILAGE SURGERY. "In May a group of British researchers from an organization called the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, which is affiliated with four universities, developed an acoustic tweezers they could use to pick strings of cartilage cells from the surface of a Petri dish and implant them precisely into place within a wound." (2015). https://lnkd.in/eVsJYXi View in LinkedIn

ACOUSTIC TWEEZERS. "In recent years, acoustic tweezers finds many important applications in the area of manipulating sub-millimeter objects, such as flow cytometry, cell separation, cell trapping, single-cell manipulation, and nanomaterial manipulation. The acoustic separation method has great potential in many applications." https://lnkd.in/e2nki6q View in LinkedIn

ON THE MARKET. "By 2013, acoustic levitation had progressed from motionless levitation to controllably moving hovering objects, an ability useful in the pharmaceutical and electronics industries. Current systems have lifted at most a few kilograms. Acoustic levitators are used mostly in industry however some products are commercially available to the public." https://lnkd.in/e2nki6q View in LinkedIn

WOOD-WIDE-WEB of fungal associations with plant roots. A comprehensive review. https://lnkd.in/eNTyQfc View in LinkedIn

THE NEXT BEST THING TO ANTI-GRAVITY. "A group of researchers from Brazil and Uruguay build an acoustic levitator that can lift and move small objects without touching them and without having to leave them inside part of the levitator or rigidly locking a floating object into position a precise distance from the device." (2015). https://lnkd.in/eVsJYXi View in LinkedIn