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Laboratory Magazine ISSN: 2148-953X Special Edition 3 YOUR DAILY DOSE OF SCIENCE EPHESUS GREAT GREAT EPHESUS THEATRE BIOPLASTIC IS PRODUCED FROM OLIVE SEED FOOD ENGINEER DUYGU YILMAZ HAD RESEARCHED OLIVE SEED FOR 2 YEARS, AND AS A RESULT SHE PRODUCED BIOPLASTIC FROM OLIVE SEEDS. BIOLIVE COMPANY’S FOUNDER & CEO DUYGU YILMAZ, CHOSEN AS FUTURE PROMISING WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR IN 2017 BY GARANTI BANK, KAGIDER AND EKONOMIST MAGAZINE. FOREIGN TOURIST ARRIVALS IN TURKEY ROSE NEARLY 30 PCT IN 2017 The number of foreign tourists visiting Turkey rose 28 percent in the first 10 months of the year, hitting 29 million, mainly due to an 02 ongoing rebound in the Russian market, data from Turkey’s Tourism 18 Ministry showed on Nov. 29. TURKISH SIGNATURE CHINA’S “SOCIAL CREDIT TURKISH PROFESSOR ANESTHETICS HAVE FOR GENETIC DIAGNOSIS 17 SYSTEM” WILL RATE 10 EXCITES THE WORLD 08 SAME EFFECTS ON 12 OF HEMOPHILIA HOW VALUABLE YOU ARE WITH THE CHOLESTEROL PLANTS AS ANIMALS & AS A HUMAN DISCOVERY HUMANS Hemophilia genetic test kit is the first time In a contentious world first, China plans to The Sabri Ulker Center resarch team led by A new study published in Annals of Botany in the world was produced at the Faculty implement a social credit system (officially Professor Gökhan Hotamışlıgil at Harvard shows that plants react to anesthetics of Medicine of Ege University by Associate referred to as a Social Credit Score or SCS) University, has developed a mechanism similarly to the way animals and humans do, Professor Hüseyin Onay. by 2020. to protect cells from harmful effects of suggesting plants are ideal objects for testing cholesterol. anesthetics actions in the future. 2 www.labmedya.com/en FOOD ENGINEER DUYGU YILMAZ HAD RESEARCHED OLIVE SEED FOR 2 YEARS, AND AS A RESULT SHE PRODUCED BIOPLASTIC FROM OLIVE SEEDS. BIOPLASTIC IS PRODUCED FROM OLIVE SEED Biolive Company’s Founder & CEO laboratory, which she built at home out The increasing effect of biofilms on food container, food packaging, textiles, Duygu Yılmaz, chosen as Future of her shift. She quitted the job and antimicrobial and food shelf life has hygiene materials, organic toys and Promising Woman Entrepreneur in took her 2 friends with her and founded attracted interest from manufacturers of baby pacifier,” said Duygu Yılmaz, also 2017 by Garanti Bank, KAGİDER and Biolive Company. refrigerators. they are producing olive seed extract Ekonomist Magazine. Different products creams and tonics. can be produced from the antibacterial But she had no fund and no one When an American company offered to bioplastic packaging to extend the shelf believed that a 26 year old woman buy her inventions, Vestel Ventures has Duygu Yilmaz thinks that antimicrobial life of the products. can be successful and can produce decided to support Biolive for R&D work. bioplastics disappearing in a very short products, but she worked 16 hours a Currently, Duygu Yılmaz is working on time in nature will transform the world. Biolive also received R&D investment day and she didn’t give up. Sometimes Vestel’s bioplastic production which can from Vestel Venture. Now bioplastic she worked at the laboratory in her be used in refrigerator production in “Since my childhood I have never experiments are being carried out for house and later she continued her Manisa facilities. dreamed a normal working life. I believe Vestel refrigerators.Daughter of a family researches in R&D center, which she that people take on different roles in of 2 children, Duygu Yılmaz’s researcher and her friends established. MY DREAM IS TO DO WORKS THAT coming to the world, my role is to do spirit appeared in the secondary school. TOUCHES PEOPLE’S LIVES things that will touch the lives of people She was 12 years old when she was and nature. My biggest dream is to be SHE RESEARCHED OLIVE SEEDS making a washing machine for her “Apart from bioplastic refrigerator a pioneer in the bioplastics industry in doll’s clothes from the fan motor. Her FOR 2 YEARS technology, we work on granules that Turkey.” police father, who was a veteran at can be used in many fields such as She confirmed that substance in olive the age of 30, always said if she want to graduate she must be successful seeds can be taken in extract form in her education because of financial while she was working on this matter problems. she produced plastic from it. The prototype of the product is finished She inspired by her father who about 2 years. Thousands of trials swallows olive seeds every morning had been made over the past 2 years because he claims the olive seeds are but team worked day and night to good for his stomach then she started constantly find the formula. a research about olive seeds. But “We didn’t lose our hopes we have before that she stopped her father to always worked with determination,” swallowing olive seeds, if he want to said Duygu Yılmaz. First they made swallow the seed it had to be in powder bioplastic films from olive seeds then form.In that time she was working in those films turned into granules that a honey company. After she began could be used in every area of plastic to experiment with olive seeds in her and sectoral works started. www.labmedya.com/en 3 MEET “THE SNOWBABY” EMMA SHE WAS FROZEN AS AN EMBRYO FOR 24 YEARS survive alone outside of the womb. But development shows that women with seem like futuristic medical advances, after four weeks in the biobags, the severe medical complications, who they are irreplaceable opportunities for lambs developed lungs and hair and, are born without a uterus, or who are many who have dreamed of starting most importantly, were able to survive transgender could still potentially give families. Not every woman is born on their own in the outside world. This birth. with a uterus, and a remarkably large technique could one day save the lives In another fertility marvel, a woman percentage of people struggle with of human children born dangerously successfully gave birth thanks to an fertility, sometimes for many years. premature, and prevent the long-lasting ovary that was removed pre-puberty. These advances in the journey from medical problems that can come from There is even the promise of 3D-printed conception to birth are building the In November 2017, a baby was premature birth. ovaries, which successfully allowed foundations of a future in which starting successfully born from an embryo Also this year, a woman in the U.S infertile mice to give birth. a family is something that everyone can frozen for 24 years, the longest period successfully gave birth after receiving choose, giving a new option to people a viable embryo has ever been stored. a uterus transplant. This promising While these developments might just who never before had it. Baby Emma is just one example of the amazing fertility solutions science has developed in just a few short years. A “snowbaby” is a term used to describe an embryo that is frozen in storage and preserved for potential WE’D LIKE TO BE future birth. In November 2017, the PART OF YOUR longest frozen embryo ever held in storage was successfully born in LABORATORY Tennessee. The embryo, created from anonymous donors, was frozen on We are with you to deliver solutions to October 14, 1992, just one year after your heating processes and analyses mother Tina Gibson’s own birth. Furnaces up to 1800 °C, Ovens up to 650 °C The 24-year-old frozen embryo was Chamber Furnaces, Tube Furnaces, Split initially a bit of a surprise, even to Furnaces, Rotary Furnaces, Ovens and parents Tina and Benjamin Gibson. Tina more... first remarked: “Do you realize I’m only 25? This embryo and I could have been best friends.” But, now 26, Tina told CNN, “I just wanted a baby. I don’t care if it’s a world record or not.” She got her wish: Emma Wren Gibson was born on November 25, 2017 Before the birth of baby Emma, the longest-known successful snowbaby birth was from a 20-year-old frozen embryo. While the Gibsons are mostly excited about parenthood, from a medical and scientific perspective, this is a remarkable success. This shows that embryos, like the one that became Emma, can safely be donated and left frozen in storage for potential parents struggling with fertility, like Benjamin Gibson, who has cystic fibrosis. It could also mean that those with cancer who anticipate losing fertility after chemotherapy treatments could store a healthy embryo until they are ready to be a parent. FUTURE OF FERTILITY As shown in the case of the Gibsons, fertility and birth look a lot different now than they did even a few years ago. An embryo created 24 years before the baby is born is only the tip of the 1600 °C Tube Furnace 1600 °C Chamber Furnace 650 °C Oven futuristic fertility iceberg. This past year, premature lambs were developed inside of artificial wombs. Just 105 days into development, lambs were placed into the uterus-like, fluid- Ergazi Mahallesi 1695. Cadde, 1819. Sokak No:5 Batıkent 06370 Ankara t:+90 312 257 13 31 f: +90 312 257 13 35 filled “biobag” to continue growing. www.prothermfurnaces.com [email protected] While at that stage in development, equivalent to 22 weeks in humans, neither human nor lamb is able to 4 www.labmedya.com/en MAY BE THE EARTH’S OLDEST FOSSILS ARE 3.5 BILLION YEARS OLD THE CONCLUSION, substantially earlier and it confirms that MADE BY it was not difficult for primitive life to RESEARCHERS AT form and to evolve into more advanced microorganisms.” THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN- Schopf added that the research shows, MADISON AND UCLA, if the conditions are right, “It looks SUGGESTS THAT like life in the universe should be EXTRATERRESTRIAL widespread.” The new study looked at fossilized LIFE MIGHT DEVELOP microorganisms that were found in MORE EASILY THAN Western Australia in 1992.