Ambrosia

• BOSTON, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vela Seaport , named for the constellation in the shape of a ship's sail, has fittingly docked in Boston's Seaport.
• The newly renovated ground-floor restaurant tucked in YOTEL Boston features expansive windows pointing towards the sea with soothing wind-like floor-to-ceiling curtains.
• "We couldn't be more thrilled to be bringing a new, elevated dining experience to the Seaport area and Boston as a whole," said Trish Berry, General Manager of YOTEL Boston.
• Vela Seaport is located at 65 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA 02210.

• Ambrosia Innovations shared insights into new consumer research the company commissioned through an independent research firm.
• A representative sample of 1,000 US adults finds strong interest in functional foods and beverages across consumer segments.
• Among the highlights:
  54% find the concept of functional foods and beverages from major brands appealing.
• CEO Chuck Siegel noted, “We believe wholeheartedly in the future of functional foods and beverages, but even we were surprised by the existing level of interest in these products.

• Yet we often ignore the achievements of species that preceded us by billions of years.
• Bacteria, plants, fungi, insects, birds, whales and other species demonstrate language, engineering, science, medicine, agriculture and more.

Speaking nature’s language

• Now, scientists from around the world are collaborating as part of the Cetacean Translation Initiative to use powerful AI algorithms and decode the language of sperm whales.
• Plants communicate with each other using hormones such as jasmonate, which redirects resources from growth to repairing damage.
• Meanwhile, bacteria have been “talking” to each other for billions of years by exchanging chemical messages via hormone-like molecules called autoinducers.
• Studies into premature babies have shown the relationship between gut bacteria and human cells are crucial for cognitive development.

Skilled engineers

• It is a permanent building site where bacteria, insects and humans alike create cities.
• The engineering skills of honeybees are so sophisticated that a honeybee expert and a group of engineers used an algorithm inspired by honeybees to resolve internet traffic problems.
• Bacteria are skilled engineers too.
• Indeed, the entire planet was turned into a kind of bacterial internet three billion years ago.

Doctors and surgeons

• Viruses invade bacteria and hijack their cellular machinery to make copies of themselves – a process which kills the bacteria.
• Bacterial bodies produce enzymes that attack and kill virus DNA, a technique known as Crspr.
• But ants from the species Megaponera analis, found in sub-Saharan Africa, are talented surgeons.
• These ant surgeons were so effective that patients were spotted on the battlefield the next day.

Successful farmers

• In turn, ambrosia beetles transport fungus spores in a pouch-like structure in their gut to tunnels bored into trees.
• So, these tiny beings were all farmers millions of years before humans had even thought of it.
• In so doing, this newly discovered wisdom could help us resolve the environmental crisis caused by our civilisation.

• The Ambrosia team has already contributed to lowering the cost of real-time CGM by 65% in North America and European countries and by more than 85% in several Asian countries through the use of their innovative technologies.
• Numerous individuals with diabetes observed a significant improvement in their A1c and Time-in-Range(TIR) post during the past few years, thanks to Ambrosia technology.
• Those using Ambrosia technology reported a 23% improvement in their A1c and a 47% improvement in TIR when compared to patients using alternative rt-CGMs.
• As per reports, NightRider BluCon has already helped many people get access to real-time continuous glucose readings in more than 100 countries.