Metal detection:
It was 1997 and I was with Sensei in Sendai on our way down to the house in Toyama, my first experience in rural Japanese. They called it the house or the cabin in Toyama and said it was Spartan or traditional or Classic, and I was building a cold. In the morning we were to go down to the fishing port to see the coming fish for fresh material for sensei students. His Students were mostly heads of Scientific groups, mostly PhDs already and many were Professors.
Sensei would collect good material and send it to them mostly giant squids, but often other organisms some are harder to find. I was building a cold and was to spend the next three days under the fog of a cold. But I was to experience a handful of Japan Sea's culinary experience and meet a handful of Fishermen and sea-man.
I also met the chair of the Fishery Union of Toyama. We ate fish and sashimi of all sort and flavor – I only refused to eat "Fugo", a thrill I was not up to – and we talked about the sea and about fish. Being cold and the amount of Japanese spoken and mixed in English made it even more interesting. Sensei had a prefect English, and a cigarette in hand at all times, a true chain smoker and a healthy one.
We have seen a giant squid of 2-3 meters coming from the deep sea, and all the goodies of the Toyama bay. And I already remember Sensei saying that we need to better understand marine biology and the sea if we want to keep on enjoying the things the sea offers.
I kept on following the fishing world ever since, through several devastating incidents of metal pollutions, through major recalls with environmental background and through the wake of the world to the situation.
I have seen numbers building and economic burden ever increasing.
In 2006 I was on the advisory committee of a small biotech in the field of biocapturing, when I was asked to advice on capturing target. By then it was clear to me metal detection is going to be the next biotech haven – and I said so, They decided to run after a medical target. Two years later a set of metal capturing molecules was already worth billions. It still is.
The market for detection of metals and the metal risk cost market are now several tens of billion dollars and the damages incurred since the conversation is measured in hundreds of billion dollars and the mountains of metal risks to the food drink and building industries are unmeasured in dollars.
Biocapturing of metals and biosensing metals and metal ions is simple, yet untapped opportunity still today. Their toxicity imply on organism selectivity and thus the opportunity. There must be a selective biomeasure for each of the current known metal pollutant.
It was 1997 and I was with Sensei in Sendai on our way down to the house in Toyama, my first experience in rural Japanese. They called it the house or the cabin in Toyama and said it was Spartan or traditional or Classic, and I was building a cold. In the morning we were to go down to the fishing port to see the coming fish for fresh material for sensei students. His Students were mostly heads of Scientific groups, mostly PhDs already and many were Professors.
Sensei would collect good material and send it to them mostly giant squids, but often other organisms some are harder to find. I was building a cold and was to spend the next three days under the fog of a cold. But I was to experience a handful of Japan Sea's culinary experience and meet a handful of Fishermen and sea-man.
I also met the chair of the Fishery Union of Toyama. We ate fish and sashimi of all sort and flavor – I only refused to eat "Fugo", a thrill I was not up to – and we talked about the sea and about fish. Being cold and the amount of Japanese spoken and mixed in English made it even more interesting. Sensei had a prefect English, and a cigarette in hand at all times, a true chain smoker and a healthy one.
We have seen a giant squid of 2-3 meters coming from the deep sea, and all the goodies of the Toyama bay. And I already remember Sensei saying that we need to better understand marine biology and the sea if we want to keep on enjoying the things the sea offers.
I kept on following the fishing world ever since, through several devastating incidents of metal pollutions, through major recalls with environmental background and through the wake of the world to the situation.
I have seen numbers building and economic burden ever increasing.
In 2006 I was on the advisory committee of a small biotech in the field of biocapturing, when I was asked to advice on capturing target. By then it was clear to me metal detection is going to be the next biotech haven – and I said so, They decided to run after a medical target. Two years later a set of metal capturing molecules was already worth billions. It still is.
The market for detection of metals and the metal risk cost market are now several tens of billion dollars and the damages incurred since the conversation is measured in hundreds of billion dollars and the mountains of metal risks to the food drink and building industries are unmeasured in dollars.
Biocapturing of metals and biosensing metals and metal ions is simple, yet untapped opportunity still today. Their toxicity imply on organism selectivity and thus the opportunity. There must be a selective biomeasure for each of the current known metal pollutant.
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