{"id":2238,"date":"2023-12-11T12:49:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steamfest23\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2023-12-11T12:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:49:30","slug":"lotus-plant-structures-in-biotechnology-from-biomedicine-to-material-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/2023\/12\/11\/lotus-plant-structures-in-biotechnology-from-biomedicine-to-material-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Plant Structures in Biotechnology: From Biomedicine to Material Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our professor encouraged us to choose this topic, as his research is focused on biotechnology and the lotus plant. We found the plant very interesting the more we researched, and discovered the benefits it has medicinally and technologically. 80% of all medicines come from plants\/nature, and only 5% of the known plants are used for that 80% of medicines. The takeaway from our project is that if this extensive list of benefits comes from only one plant, natural remedies and biotechnology seem extremely promising for the future of medicine and biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors:<br \/>Kerolos Assad<br \/>Alondra Camacho<br \/>Alexandra Doyle<br \/>Lauren Ferguson<br \/>Judie Hamdan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-author:<br \/>Professor Krishnaswami Raja, Ph.D<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steamfest23\/index.php?gf-download=2023%2F12%2FLotus-Poster.pdf&amp;form-id=4&amp;field-id=9&amp;hash=33d6de6e5f5f407672bd0557fa7e4cb0da79768479689b02562e2373da18e55d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project Poster Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this project we explored the uses of the lotus plant, or Nelumbo nucifera. From pharmaceuticals that treat cancer and HIV to growing neurons and bone cells in the stems and roots, this one plant has benefits that could revolutionize modern medicine and biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,21,28,46,63,68],"tags":[328,606,624,668],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5","category-csi","category-data","category-ecosystem","category-learn","category-raja-krishnaswami","category-seminar-3-science-forward","tag-data","tag-lotus","tag-medicine","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}