Wired UK – September 2019
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Left: Jan Schaart, a researcher at WUR, inspects CRISPR-Cas- edited cuttings 09-19-FTfoodvalley.indd 139 10/07/2019 11:21 ...
UNIFARM Switching sunshine for LEDs In WUR’s Unifarm facility, among lanes of glass buildings, a team led by Leo Marcelis, a pro ...
A RESEARCHER INSPECTS THE CUCUMBER CROP IN THE WUR’S LED-POWERED GREENHOUSE 09-19-FTfoodvalley.indd 141 10/07/2019 11:21 ...
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PLANT MEAT MATTERS Making a tasty alternative A freezer opens, and a dense slab of brown-red material is pulled out. Atze Jan va ...
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< pictured previous spread CRISPR-CAS Creating custom plants For generations, we’ve manipu- lated crops to boost nutritional ...
ALGAEPARC Superfoods and biofuels Algae needs just a few nutrients, some water, sunlight and carbon dioxide. But it has the pote ...
AGRO FOOD ROBOTICS Robotic pepper-harvesting The sweet pepper harvesting robot SWEEPER (shown below), developed by WUR with part ...
PLANT RESEARCH Exotic crops Inside a WUR greenhouse at Bleiswijk, a small town 20km from The Hague, Filip van Noort (shown above ...
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150 September 2015, hardware veterans Nigel Toon and Simon Knowles were doing the rounds of venture capital offices in Silicon V ...
company Element 14. When this was acquired by Broadcom for $640 million in 2000, the pair went on to found Icera in 2002 with To ...
someone will come up with a cure for cancer using the tech we’re creating.” “We’re building the motors of artificial intelligenc ...
approaches that simply don’t work efficiently on today’s hardware. “What most of the [rival] startups are doing is building a ma ...
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definition of a good doctor or lawyer?” he says. “It’s someone with a lot of wisdom acquired by experience, someone who’s seen a ...
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