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Banana peels are actually delicious (if you know how to cook them) 🍌
🍌 Pancake Bites
Ingredients:
3 bananas
1 cup soy milk
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tbsp olive oil
1½ cups flour
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Rachana Mandal • 1 card
“Perhaps the most exciting finding of this study is that Dicer can be reengineered,” their 2006 paper noted.4 It was a very useful discovery. It permitted researchers to use RNA interference to turn off a wide variety of genes, both to discover what each gene does and to regulate its activity for medical purposes.
Walter Isaacson • The Code Breaker
An under-appreciated fact about civilization is that everything we eat has been genetically engineered to an extreme extent (via selection) to be what it is today. Wheat, corn, potatoes, bananas, etc. didn't exist in any recognizable state in the wild in pre-human times.
François Cholletx.comAt Harvard University, for example, George Church and his colleagues have drawn up a list of 151 genes, which they think would be enough to keep an organism alive.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
The most far-reaching development in 20th-century agriculture was the introduction in the 1980s of genetic engineering, the technology that makes it possible to alter our food plants and animals by surgically precise manipulation of the DNA that makes up their genes. This manipulation bypasses the natural barriers between species, so theoretically... See more
Harold McGee • On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
