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It's a beautiful morning in downtown St. Petersburg. It is exactly 64 degrees and cloudy. Gonna be partly cloudy later on and probably a little sunshine maybe later on in the day. High of about 72. So it's a beautiful day and it's a beautiful week. And the weather's been really nice down here. So come on down and visit us. I'd like to remind you, first of all, to please pick up the health signals newsletter and the services here. So you hit services. You go all the way down the bottom of the page. You'll see the primal edge, our one-shot wonder. All there to make you healthy. There's a nice shot already right there for you. And the health signals newsletter. Please pick that up. And I have a newsletter that's out this morning. And number seven starts out with the deadliest habits you should avoid as you get older. A lot of good information. And in fact, I just got a text message from one of my subscribers that said, great, great newsletter. So thank you very much. So first thing I want to go, page of course is not here folks. She hopefully should be back in the next week or so. I haven't talked to her in the last week. Just that's the way it goes sometimes. But I'm going to give her a call right after the show. She shouts she's doing and she's getting around a little bit better. And if she does, you're going to see her next week or maybe the week after. Hopefully that's the case. I'm tired of being alone here. But thank you for joining us. Now the first article I want to go over is this disclosure. This says BE disclosure and BE means bioengineering. So I guess they didn't want to put that right up front here. And this is the USDA website here for the United States Department of Agriculture. And the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Sunny Perdue announced the National Bioengineering Food Disclosure Standard on December 20th of 2018. The National Bioengineering Food Disclosure Law passed by Congress in July of 2016 directed the USDA to establish this national mandatory standard for disclosing foods that are or may be bioengineered. Now the standard defines bioengineered foods as those that contain detectable genetic material that has been modified through certain lab techniques and cannot be created through conventional breeding or found in nature. Now the inflammation date of this standard is January 1st, 2020 except for small food manufacturers whose date is 2021 January 1st. The mandatory compliance date is January 1 of 2022 and regulated entities may volunteer to comply with this right now if they wanted to. The Agriculture Marketing Service, the AMS, developed a list of bioengineered foods to identify the crops or foods that are available in a bioengineering form throughout the world and for which regulated entities must maintain records. These records will inform regulated entities about whether they must make a bioengineering food disclosure. The standard requires the manufacturers, importers and certain retailers to ensure bioengineering foods are appropriately disclosed. So right now what this is telling me that they're not being disclosed now. So that's probably not good and I think disclosure is where it's at with the food for sure. But you'll see here that this next article, I can find it here, talks about the restaurant business. And a lot of times we see these types of food entering the restaurant business without us even knowing it. So somewhere in the Midwest the restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That's according to the company making the oil which says it's the first commercial use of the gene-edited food in the U.S. They can't reveal its first customer for competitive reasons but the CEO says the oil is in use and being eaten right now. The Minnesota-based company is hoping the announcement will encourage the food industry interest in the oil which says it has no trans in it as a longer shelf life than other soybean oils. Whether demand builds remains to be seen but the oils transition into the food supplies signals gene-editing potential to alter foods without the controversial of the GMOs or genetically modified organisms. Among other gene-edited crops being explored are mushrooms that don't brown, wheat with more fiber, better producing tomatoes, herbicide-tolerant canola and rice don't absorb soil pollutants as they grow. And that of course means they can put more herbicides on this so they're going to be spraying this with herbicides and pesticides. So all this food that is being genetically engineered they're doing it for a reason of making it easier for them to grow these things and to deal with the pests because remember when you're making a huge field of one thing the pests see that as here's dinner or breakfast or whatever and this is why we have these plagues because of agriculture and in nature we don't normally see this because plants are more diversified they grow with each other and a lot of times they'll be complimented with a food or with a type of plant that is kind of a good pal I have around maybe this other plant that's next to you the insects don't like so they don't go to you either or maybe there's an irritant on that plant that the animals aren't going to come and eat you so there's a lot of things in nature that it does it naturally here we're trying to do it unnaturally because we think we're smarter than nature perhaps but this is all done of course for the grower for the producer not for us being healthier that's the way I see it unlike conventional GMOs which are made by injecting DNA from other organisms gene editing lets scientists alter traits by snipping out or adding specific genes in a lab startups including this company save their crops do not qualify it as GMOs because what they're doing is theoretically be achieved with traditional crossbreeding but it's not being done by traditional crossbreeding traditional crossbreeding is what we've always done this is why the Tulips and Hollander are so great this is why marijuana strains get their potency is because we do this but we're entering a whole new realm and we really don't know when we take something away from a plant or even let's say an animal which is probably the next step that we don't know the consequences down the road because we're not that smart we know this is this the only thing this one little thing does or are there multiple things that we don't know about yet and this is the problem when we start altering something 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gene editing not to brown the mushrooms he says you designed it to sit around longer are there any problems with that and that's some of the questions they have to answer already most corn and soy grown in the United States are herbicide tolerant GMOs just like last week regulators cleared a huge hurdle for salmon genetically modified to grow faster the fish is the first genetically modified animal approved for human consumption in the United States this was done a couple of years ago in Canada now we've approved this though regulators say GMOs are safe health and environmental worries have persisted and the companies will soon have to disclose when the products have been bioengineered ingredients in them the company says that its oil does not qualify as a GMO the oils made from soybeans with two inactive genes to produce more heart healthy fats and no trans fat the company says the oil also has a longer shelf life of course that's the number one reason I would think which can reduce costs for food makers and resulting in long lasting products and of course more profits this is the incentive that we always have we have to have that more profit for our stockholders now we already know that soybean oil is not a good oil to use it's always been genetically modified now it's going to be genetically engineered bioengineered also or maybe one or the other we don't know but soybean oil is not that great to begin with so I would recommend staying with the animal fats saturated fat and the fish fats the omega-3s staying with really good quality olive oil there's a lot of good oils like avocado oil now just remember that in the oils the ones that are easiest for us to deal with to digest are the animal ones because after all we are animals and the next ones are the plants now the plant oils take an extra step for us to digest them so it's a little bit harder but they're very healthy for them they contain other things that the animal oils don't so we need both of these things so they're working on other gene editing crops that say are faster to develop than conventional GMOs which require regulatory studies so these do not even have the studies up front they say oversight of gene-edited foods could become stricter if the public attitude changes so it's our attitude that has to change first not theirs in other words they're going to put this stuff out there because they think it's okay because the profit is good because it can last longer it's really good for them so they're making the decision ahead of time this is good we don't need oversight but if you pressure us maybe we'll include some maybe we'll have to this is not the way things should be done you should never think of regulation as settled he says views on G-spicing vary too the national organic standards board says food made with gene editing cannot qualify as organic and last year Europeans highest court said gene-editing in food should be subjected to the same rules as conventional GMOs so there you have it now there's another type of engineering that is also going on and that is known as CRISPR and Japanese edit crop rules suggesting gene-edited foods could hit the stores in 2019 an expert panel of health ministry finalized report on creating rules for a geome editing agriculture and marine products on May 18th of this year I guess meaning that could be on the market within months under the rules businesses would be able to sell the GMO-edited proto after registering with the government this will not involve safety screenings for toxicity or carcinogenetic so more stuff is coming now there's another thing here that I wanted to go over let's see the rise of genetically modified foods now the reason I picked this up and this is from the Washington Post because it had some nice charts in it commercials always dealing with commercials no matter where we are so the newest issue of nature has a thoughtful package of articles taking a careful look at the rise of genetically modified crops around the world it's definitely worth a read anybody interested on the subject this chart for instance let's get it up here shows the transgenic crop planting is dominated by just five countries United States, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and India and as it happens there's been a real slowdown over the past five years meanwhile just four crops soybeans, corn, cotton and canola come from nearly all GM crops grown in 2012 and the most popular modifications include herbicide, tolerance and insect resistance for a handful of crops another chart here there's more in the nature issue than just a few charts take a look at the research on GMOs and there's a whole bunch of so what this chart says here apparently that soybeans 81% are biotech and only a 20% margin of these are the normal types of beans that are grown here cotton, 81% of it well of course we don't eat cotton of course there is cotton seed oil which used to be we remember Crisco they replaced the lard and here we have maize which is corn of course and that's about 35% of it biotech and the others conventional when they say conventional I'm not sure are they including GMOs in this because most of the corn in the United States is GMO and canola here is 34% and you can see the rise in this other chart here since 1966 they have this 2012 so the red here is the herbicide intolerance or the tolerance the insect tolerance is this opaque line and the black line is herbicide tolerance and insect resistance so here's some facts for you GMO crops have bred super weeds that's true GM cotton has driven farmers to suicide that's false and trans genes spread to wild crops in Mexico and they say that's unknown well I know for a fact that that's happened here and of course Monsanto has been behind this that if you have some crops that are GMO and say the wind blows and it blows some of the seeds over into your crops now you have the crops from Monsanto and they consider that a violation and if they catch you with those 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the front page of TFNN.com Thanks for sticking around folks I'm reading from this article on the Washington Post and three British scientists argue that the debate over the use of GMOs in developed countries would be much more productive if it moved beyond the wild claims like the GMO crops will destroy everything or GMO will fix all our agricultural problems it's going to do neither one of those probably genetic engineering is not an essential even useful for all crop improvement but in some cases it helps to improve yields and nutritional value it reduces the risks and costs associated with the overuse of fertilizers pesticides and water see we need to use these herbicides and pesticides and water because our soil is bad and it's getting worse because there are farming practices so instead of improving our soil the way the Amazonians did thousands and thousands of years ago by a method we still don't know but we do have good methods and we need to use those to make sure that they're altering the food which I say is probably not good for us there's another nature's editor pointed out that GMOs haven't delivered yet on many of the wonderful social and environmental benefits that they promised years ago it's partly because so much research has been confined in the private sector gene modification is a nascent technology for which development has moved very quickly to commercialize that has forced most research into the for-profit sector without broader research programs outside the seed industry development will be continued to be profit driven limited the chance for many of the advancement that were promised years ago such as the feeding the planets we're going to feed everybody because of this beautiful thing now there's another thing here that is the basic primer I wanted to kind of go into a little bit and what they're talking about here in California they in 2012 they were talking about this pretty heavily and some interesting facts here and some of the questions how do you genetically modified food well farmers have been selectively breeding crops for 10,000 of years in order to produce desirable genetic traits but so that's not what's at issue here since the 1990s scientists have been able to manipulate the genomes of crops directly this might involve things like taking a few well categorized genes from a different species say a bacteria of some kind and transplanting them into a crop say corn to produce the desired traits this is quite different from traditional plant breeding and that's what's causing all the controversy another question what would why would anyone manipulate genes like that well for a variety of reasons some crops are modified to be resistant to herbicide such as Monsanto's randup ready soybeans so that they're easier to spray the fields with a weed killer yeah you can just broad you know before you go out and take the weeds out that's the way you would normally do that let's see another question so there's no one single type of genetically modified food that's right simply stated that a food is genetically modified doesn't tell you very much genetic modification is a tool that can be used for many purposes in practices they tend to focus their research on efforts of making crops more profitable rather than making foods more nutrition or boosting the yield to solve world hunger another question how prevalent are GMO foods well more than 88 percent of corn and soy planted in the United States is genetically modified most of it ends up in animal feed or ethanol or corn syrup which turns into a lot of these processed foods that we have cotton, sugar, beets, and canola are also commonly genetically modified crops by some estimates 40 to 70 percent of foods in the grocery stores in California contain some kind of GMO ingredient another question are GMO foods safe or health wise well so far there's been very little scientific evidence that they're harmful at this point billions of people around the world have been eating GMO crops for decades and numerous of scientific bodies have included that genetically modified crops pose no health risk other than conventional or any more than conventional crops as the American Association for Advancement of Science puts it in its recent statement the science is quite clear crop improvement by modern molecular techniques of biotechnology is safe sometimes however do not do insist that more research needs to be done before GMO foods can be so definitely considered safe yeah like before we put it into the food in a sense to the AAAS statement 21 researchers argue that the US testing of genetically modified foods is still voluntary and that things like increasing herbicide use which can occur with things like roundup ready crops may have health effects that we don't yet know so they say why not label and let the customers make up their own mind and that's what this is all about it's not that we're going to take these crops out of here which I would like to do but we're talking about just labeling and this has been a fight since 2012 there are some legitimate concerns for instance farmers planting herbicide resistant GM tend to use a limited range of herbicides on their fields which has given rise to a variety of herbicide resistant super weeds that in turn leads to search for more herbicides what critics call a chemical treadmill and this is what happens that's the risk that genetically engineer traits can escape into nature well that's the other thing too doesn't it just because it can go into the next crop next door also means I think that it could blow into the wild and now we have these things affecting our wild plants where the real treasure is and the wild animals whatever we have left so what would California's law actually do so this law would require a subset of genetically modified foods sold in supermarkets to be labeled as such retailers would have to provide extensive documentation for foods that purport to be GMO free farmers and food manufacturers might also have to provide records in some cases there are plenty of loopholes the law would exempt many foods such as meat from animals that are fed GMO crops or fed animals restaurants are also exempt what's more many biotech companies are now experimenting with new techniques such as engineering specific proteins that do not meet the standard definition of genetically modified foods and that's what we were talking about earlier with that gene editing what have past GMO and labeling laws accomplished studies of labeling laws in the Netherlands and China found they did not appear to affect consumer behavior one possible reason is that the labeling laws make GMO foods more expensive to produce after all retailers and manufacturers have to provide extensive documentation to prove food is not genetically modified so according to a paper by the international food policy research institute mandatory label laws are likely to affect the supply of 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Go to TFNN.com and hit watch Tiger TV that's TFNN.com and hit watch Tiger TV for the latest market information. And welcome back I'm going to touch on this article from Nature talking about transgenic animals in agriculture and animal biotechnology has been practiced in one form or another since the beginning of the investigation of animals. Many of the previously used tools of animal breeding genetics and nutrition have played use of tools genetics and nutrition have played and will continue to play an important role in the selection propagation and management of desirable and economically important characteristics in livestock stock. In the future livestock production will rely even more heavily on existing and emerging biotechnical advances to produce food yet improvements still need to are needed in the product composition and production efficiency especially in growth disease resistance and reproduction genetically modified or transgenic livestock stem cells and other emerging biotechnologies will have important roles in producing more and higher quality food derived from livestock. The production of transgenic animals is one such biotechnological tool a transgenic animal is one that has been integrated has integrated a gene or a D and A sequence which has been transferred by human intervention into the GMO of a cell for the purposes of discussion this is defined as blah blah blah the production of transgenics provides methods to rapidly introduce new and modified genes and DNA sequences into livestock without cross breeding or hybridization it is more precise technique but not fundamentally different from the methods used to produce trans you know the way we do cross breeding now they say it's not a lot different much has been written about this the obvious question is why genetically modify livestock the answer is not so straightforward some of the reasons are to study genetic control of the physiological systems number two to build genetically disease models and improve animal production traits and produce new animal products and they have various different methods for this pro-nuclear injection sperm-mediated DNA transfers embryotic stem cells germ cell transportation nuclear transportation cloning so there's a lot of different methods there are many potential applications of this to develop new and improved strains of livestock practical applications of transgenetic in livestock production include enhanced proficiency and reproduction performance increasing food utilization and grow rates improve carcass composition improve milk production modify the hair or the fiber increasing the disease resistance and I think we have some pictures here of different animals and they want to of course enhance the nutrition human health is directly affected by the necessity of sustainable and secure supply of healthful food and if this is true if we're really concerned about the health of the food why would we skimp on the food we give the animals we're always looking to the food grade for us is different than for animals if we're going to be eating that animal don't we want them to have the best food there is it just makes no sense at all to me they also want to reduce the environmental impact of course the environmental impact is caused by the raising the domestication of animals in the first place when you start corralling things bad thing happens they don't roam like they normally roam so the spirit of the animal is gone they don't have access to the best grasses that they like to eat so they're eating something that you give them and they have to rely on you to make sure and the animal really knows out in the wild what to eat and what to look for and when to eat what it instinctively knows this all these animals and now we we think we know better than nature it's ridiculous we have to stop doing this we have to actually return animals to the wild this is my vision let's get more and more wild animals out there instead of less and less our living situation causes the death of so many wild animals it's ridiculous I heard a horticulturist one time he was explaining how sensitive the ground was and how sensitive animals are that you take a thousand acres of land and you put a road down the middle of it half the animals die just because that road is there because their territory is infringed upon it changes their habits of course we see on the side of the road a lot of road kill and things like that but that's just one thing that happens psychologically we've changed their environment so now it's more reluctant for them to cross a road they're out in the they're exposing themselves unnecessarily where in an open meadow they have the ability to go around that thing or maybe they have different reasons for going out in the meadow there's so many things we don't know about this but we know that our ancient ancestors love the spirit of the animal the spirit of the animal comes from its own decision to make to have what food it wants to seek out that food to seek out the mate to run around to have joy in life I don't care how big the prison is it's still a prison when you lock things up if you lock a human being up it does certain things to it that changes that human being it does the same thing to animals now we've domesticated quite a few animals pets and things like dogs and cats and things like that and horses and there's a lot of abuse going on and that stuff but I'm not talking about that type of thing I'm strictly talking about food because I think some of the domestication of animals that we consider companions is not as bad as it is if you're going after the food we still change them too you know how many breeds of dogs do we have and every year we add to this so we're changing but most of that thing I think is done with just the cross breeding of different breeds or different samples of breeds I guess it is but you know this stuff makes me sick it talks a lot about here this is an exclusive interview and article that goes very deep into this genetically modified food and specifically animals so I'm going to throw this into the next health signals newsletter but it really talks about all the different pitfalls improving production improving the hair and the fiber of the animals pitfalls and risks they talk about in this and they actually come up with some conclusions that the applications of biotech in livestock production are endless so we really have to set up some ground rules and how this is going to be done if we want to keep continuing this and in the end my question is the original domestic animals that we have are they going to be here at all is there a wild version of this animal somewhere we know in pigs there's hogs in cattle is there a wild cattle yeah there's steers things like this but we have a lot of domesticated animals that we don't have really a a clever a similar one in the wild let's say anyway that's just my thought about it so when we get back I want to talk about a little about working longer as we age this is something that I'm 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Yeah, so I'm a postdoc researcher in the Swedish University of Agriculture Science in far in the north in Sweden, and as introduced, my talk is about open source tools in life science and an example where I started to work with this stuff. This is in imaging mass spectrometry. So my talk will be quite a bit non-IT stuff just to give you an idea of where those things could meet and where there would be possibility for further open source projects, where certainly a lot of scientists, which usually maybe don't have so much to do with IT otherwise, would have benefit if people help with their knowledge in IT to make tools for advancing it in, for example, in life sciences. So my background is chemistry and biology. I work, as I said, in the Agriculture University in Sweden. Sweden has a lot of forest. Forest is a very important business in Sweden. So trees, we use them to make paper recently, we use it to make biofuels, we use to make new materials, all kind of stuff. The idea how this should work in the future is that we want to be able to make trees that are genetically modified, so the actual physical material, the wood, the material that we use for the products, that we can kind of render it more usable for the different applications. This could be, for example, in a potent paper, if you want to make paper from wood, usually you need a lot of chemicals to extract the cellulose, which is this part of the wood, which is of interest to make the paper. So you need a lot of energy and chemicals to extract those molecules. And if we could change by making a transgenic tree and change the chemistry of the actual wood, we could also make the economy work better in terms that it gets cheaper and less dirty to, for example, produce paper. And this applies basically for all those different applications that we could do with raw materials. So we are working on wood, but this is basically true for all kind of other biological raw materials also. You can use transgenic technology to change the actual physical chemical properties so that it gets more usable. And this is not just something which is like future stuff, which we maybe can do in 10 years. This is stuff which is really done. So there are trees in plantar trees which are used already, let's say in Brazil or even in China where you plant those and where you can get a better economy on potent paper. Now here this is just a little bit of a background from a biological point of view. Wood was needed to make this available. Of course you need the genome of those species you want to modify in terms of the trees we work with. Populous tricocarpat. This was done in 2006 where we got the whole genome published openly accessible for everybody so you can go into the database and look up all the gene sequences and which genes are there, what they are doing and so on. If you have the genome sequence of a species what you usually would do then is genetic screens, mutant screens where you usually randomly mutate those species and look for properties that you're interested. This would be the mutant screen. You grow those species then and transform them to those new genomes, to those modified versions and select those that are of interest. This is sort of a daily business what we are doing in the research institute so we are doing those mutant screens and growing the new modified trees and then where I come in as a chemist I start to look at the wood, at the chemical properties of the wood. If we achieved what we want or if we're doing that randomly also to just characterize the wood, what is different, what has happened during this genetic modification. What we call this is phenotyping or chemotyping, it's basically looking at the very molecular structure of the wood and getting an idea what has happened and try to link that to the genes that we were modifying, figure out the function of the genes and get an idea how we could use that in producing other raw materials. Now chemotyping, this is where the specialty technique that I work with which is called top sims, that's a time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry. This is a technique which was used since quite some time mostly in semiconductor industry actually for imaging of the silica wafer to look for mostly quality assurance but recently so this technique was then also modified that it could be used in biological tissues. What the whole technique is about is that we use an iron gun and shoot with this iron gun at the solid matter so you could see here the solid matter, here the primary particles. We shoot at the solid in my case that would be wood tissue or plant tissue and you get then sputter molecules which fly out of the actual material and those are then so to say sucked up in a mass spectrometer and in a mass spectrometer you could say is nothing else than a balance for molecules which you measure the weight of the molecules and by the weight you can kind of identify which molecule that was, hence you know the chemistry of this solid that you're investigating. The way this is done is by magnetic force so you use the magnetic force to kind of put those molecules on a certain flying path and just those with a certain weight fly then into the detector here and by this you know the weight of them. Now the top sims experiment, a bit more visual, you have the iron gun, you have the sample down here and the time of flight analyzer that is the mass spectrometry analyzer that we use. Here you can see some picture of such equipment. The lower picture would be the actual sample chamber where you, this is in vacuum where you put thin slices of your sample onto the sample stage and what you can see here those probes these are the iron cannons and straight up that would be the entrance then to the mass spectrometer. Now the special thing about imaging mass spectrometry is that you're not just looking at molecules in a liquid or in a solid but you can do that spatially resolved and this is a special thing about this time of flight of this secondary ion mass spectrometry that you actually come to a very high resolution so you can analyze your samples down to the nanometer regime which is very special in mass spectrometry usually you would come down maybe to micrometer and this is where it gets interesting because you come down to a size region where you actually can look into single cell walls, you can look at how they are built, which molecules are there, how are they interlinking the different molecules and you can do that actually visually so you will get nice pictures where you can dig deeper then those pictures are so to say high perspective so you can dig down and get a lot of information about the chemical build of each point here. Now the problem such machines this is a multi-million dollar equipment usually there's not even at every university you have one of those is quite a specific equipment for me as a researcher I'm currently I'm postdoc researcher so I go to a university, I propose my experiments I do my experiments on the machine I get there I cannot really it's not me buying the machine so I'm kind of reliant that I can usefully make use of those machines that are there. Now as I said those machines are mostly used in a semiconductor industry all the software which is available is usually closed source and is also mostly made for the applications for the industry and not really for those few machines that are standing in universities and are used for life science this is still a very new field so it's not the same quantity as a semiconductor industry is buying so the problem is we don't have software and the data that we get is closed source so the first thing I had to do was kind of reverse engineering data formats and starting to make them toolboxes so that we can use this data and work with it as it would be any other mass spectrometry data mass spectrometry otherwise is very common in universities is a very usual technique but this specific type here so it's not very often used so therefore there were no tools available and this is where where the whole open source idea comes in so in in life science we often use the language R there's for bioinformatics a very nice repository by a conductor with a lot of open source software so I started to to make this tool to first read those files from from this top sims machine and then also process it and analyze it and even export it to other format so that you could use it with other tools that are already available the reason why I choose R1 of course is because there's the whole repository by a conductor which is a lot of bioinformatics after but then also is rather easy and quick to make your tools and then it has very good interfaces also to see plus plus as soon as you come to image processing and image analysis is of course useful to to have access to to a bit faster programming languages than than a scripting language the software is now openly available on this by a conductor repository so it's maybe not of too big interest for people like you working with IT but just to say this is kind of a project that went on in about three four years and finally we got the first version out and now we're of course looking to improve and looking to add new functionality and also to get people using it to to get publications out where people actually work on this just some small examples with what this is about so we record images often this is about very basic imaging processing things as I said we have extremely high spatial resolution down to nanometers the problem you end up with often is when you think of a tree when you think of wood it's quite big chunks of material if you analyze in the in the nanometer regime to get really reproducible results you need to take a lot of samples so that can be for one tree you need maybe thousand sampling points if you work with genetic trees you need maybe from one genetic line three to four different trees that you need to resample so we end up with gigabytes of data and you need to be able to automatize those things so image processing in the very simplest form is often that you need to do some thresholding some object detection that you can first take away this data which you not interested in to then have the the rest data that you actually going to do your analysis on often analysis and image analysis with mass spectrometry is a multivariate analysis like principal component analysis to to find those parts in the spectrum which are of interest to then again segment further as we were doing here where we basically do some background detection and then removing the background this was done with principal component analysis where you can see that compared to the first image where we have some artifacts here in the in the vessel holes which we with principal component analysis can easily remove and then can go to a black and white mask to to extract those data points which we are interested in that's basically what I have to show you acknowledgements to the institutes where I worked that was in at the Chalmers University in Gothenburg a little thing which I maybe can spend two minutes talking about this project a lot of the programming was done in a collaboration with Vietnamese outsource IT outsourcing company which was interested in doing R&D also in the open source field and this is this TMA company is in Vietnam a rather big company so they spend quite some money and resources helped me with people especially in the for the C++ programming where I could tell them what I need and they would deliver that that was a really helpful thing and was sort of also a international open source collaboration which which opened quite a lot of doors both for them and for me for for doing things which I otherwise wouldn't have been able to do and a lot of far funding I got from the Swedish Research Council and Bio for Energy is a program in Sweden where we're looking into how we could use the resources the bio resources we have in Sweden in other ways to create more and other high-value products besides just the Poulton paper biofuels where we try to to develop new raw material new products which which create higher value than just the making paper thank you very much maybe some questions so my interpretation of where open source has been an effective development approach has been situations where there are people who are both interested and programmers right what extent is that true yeah I think in biology in certain fields it's quite okay actually especially in the sequencing field I think a lot of biologists they are trained to use bioinformatics tools which are often I think there's a lot of Python toolboxes people use a lot of people use are so I think the affinity to it is quite high actually and people are open to use it but as soon as it comes down to to make solid tools which you when you have a lot of data processing involved and when things should be clean written and stable and fast and you actually need people to help a lot of things start as really prototypes and then get improved sure yeah sure I have different exposure this with environmental monitoring right and certainly a contact with the environment agency and it's clear that it's not actually any displeasure at all it's just that for them they are environmental scientists and it is somewhat yeah yeah yeah I think in generally in biology the advantages that you have the field of bioinformatics which is rather big bioinformatics is I think is a lot of open-source activity going on most of the projects I mean are by definition the funding is from the state so the results have to be published results have to be open and it's I would say nowadays it's kind of if you apply for money you need to disclose that you will give the source code to to the public and that it will be open so this is actually I think on the good way it's going slow but it's on the good way I think yeah definitely that's Sweden Europe how wide is that sort of pressure you mean research wise or yeah at least for me the those grants or I apply now not directly related to software but in general let's say open open journal by those grants that I apply I'm forced to or forced I mean I have no problem is that to to publish in open journals that the results that I find that they are available to everybody so a part of my research budget goes to paying the money to to publish in open journals which I think is great I mean it's a whether it's a good idea that you need to pay to publish in open journals is another question but basically that you have to do that I mean that the results get open I think is very important and especially in those cases also with those machines I mean there's a lot of data out there available you can just download it but what is the what is the help if it's in a closed format so all those tools they also need to be available of course if you can download experimental data but you cannot use it because it's in in some weird format that doesn't really help and there may be it's not yeah yeah right right yeah I guess those companies selling those machines they're used to a completely different business so there yeah it's actually also know it's maybe three companies in the whole world producing this machine I was when I did postdoc in Japan where one of the companies is and I was at the lab there and more or less tried to convince them to kind of open up the data format but well Japan is probably another story then that it's difficult to get to talk to the right people to do such stuff but there was yeah there was no real interest in doing that yeah it's general plants is not just wood yeah now this very specific technique as I said this is rather it's rather unique there's not too many universities who actually have it is getting momentum now is often having very high spatial resolution is of is of big interest of course you can in bioscience as soon as you can start to look in single cells you can you can look what's happening in one single specific cell it gets really interesting and this is where this technique probably in the future will grow much more and then I hope that was some sort of starting point software wise where people can start to build upon also to yeah to work on the data and as long as it's so expensive to have such machines you maybe don't want to have the machine at your university but you just go somewhere do the experiments and at the moment you could not even look at your date at home because even the software you need to pay for licenses so now when you have those toolboxes you can at least kind of take your so your data home and work at home with with with your results so this is kind of the that was my idea which I even needed that for me because I as a postdoc you're just traveling around and working here and there and cannot really bring with you the software thank you yeah yeah it's actually let's say in the there's as I said there's three commonly used machines one from Germany one from Japan and one from France and the one from Japan I think as long as we keep it rather low they don't know probably about the software package but yes propriety format and this is reverse engineered but it seems to work I have to admit I didn't spend too much time scratching my head about legal consequences but it works yeah you have not been given any information on the NDA no no no you look at any documentation from the supply the difficulty is going to be that the institutions are NDA and your agreements where they are one of those NDAs no I this I don't have I was really I mean I got the files and I yeah we worked it out ourselves good okay so I'm safe good to know thank you


Should YouTubers have a dedicated channel for every subject they want to talk about, or can they do an all-in-one? Hey there, NJRoot22.com here with a more of an insightful tech-slash-video-blogger episode today. This has to do with this channel here. I think we surpassed 100 subscribers, which was a big milestone for us. It took two years, which is ridiculous, and I think I know some of the reasons why our channel isn't getting more. Subscribers, we have fairly decent content. It's not random stuff. It's pretty well thought out. The production quality is okay. There's not a million cutscenes for the people with short attention spans. We went into this whole situation blind, so to say. I have a blog called NJRoot22.com and it's a general interest blog, even though it's based in New Jersey, Central Jersey, and talks about a lot of the local things here, but it talks about other things too that help everybody, regardless of where you live, whether it's our low-carb channel, which we do on Sundays, and we talk about supermarkets and the buying trends of the world, and we also do how-to's and other general economic news and stuff like that. So we tried to have a local zine, like a magazine. This video channel technically supports the blog. It gives our website a little multimedia. It's not just a written word and photos. There's a video as well. But to get monetized and to grow on YouTube, which can also be a good source of revenue if you get up there with many thousands of subscribers, I think I'm kind of shooting myself in the foot because everything we're reading these days says that your YouTube channel has to have a niche. What I've concluded or deduced from all this information I'm reading is that I should probably break this channel down into at least three separate channels. You got an NJRoot22 low-carb section, an NJRoot22 dot com how-to section, and NJRoot22 dot com supermarket or retail section. Because I guess if someone likes my low-carb stuff, they may not want to hear anything about my how to put together a kid's toy or something like that. So it's a little bit problematic because we have, I don't know, close to 400 videos on this channel now. I don't know if anybody here who subscribes. I don't even know what part of the channel you like. Is it just me? Am I such a great guy? Or is it the low-carb? Is it the thing that I fixed the laundry dryer? What is it? So I have no idea of why people subscribe. It's like when you have a niche channel, you know why people subscribe because they like that exact content. So this is going to be a pain.  If I had four, three to five channels, I'd have to buy extra subscriptions and monthly service charges for these software services. And that becomes a problem because we're not making any money on this channel. So maybe I should put a Patreon link. I don't even have one. PayPal or something. I wonder if anybody has any advice here for someone who wants to be a multi-purpose vlogger because I know there are many very popular people with five million subscribers who talk about everything under the sun. Sometimes they don't talk about anything. They just film their day. Where did I go today? I guess because they're very good video editors and they have personality and they built their channel. I guess once you have a million subscribers, you could talk about anything and these subscribers will watch you. So does anybody have any advice? What should I do? Should I break it down into multiple channels or should I keep my all-in-one variety show type channel? That's it. If you have any response, please let me know in the comments and I'll see you next video.