Sephora has debuted an app inside ChatGPT, creating an AI-powered shopping experience for beauty consumers through a conversational interface. The move allows Sephora shoppers to discover products, receive recommendations, and eventually make purchases inside the virtual space. 

Oxford-based biotech startup Sun Bear Biofuture has completed its first production run using a custom-built pilot plant designed to manufacture a cocoa butter alternative via yeast fermentation, at a setup cost of £25,000 — a fraction of the £350,000 to £1 million typically required for conventional precision fermentation facilities.

Always and Tampax have launched Flow With a Glow, a menstrual health education initiative to bridge the gap in knowledge among young menstruating people by emulating skin care discourse.

Unilever has unveiled its plans to invest US$270 million in a global innovation center in New Haven, Connecticut, US, for its personal care, beauty, and well-being businesses, set to open by spring 2029.

Meadow, a Swedish packaging technology company, has partnered with Ball Corporation to release the Meadow Kapsul SleeveLock, a wall-mounted dispenser system for personal care products. 

Pfizer and Innovent Biologics will partner to research and develop 12 early-stage and de novo antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) designed to treat various cancers, the companies said today, through a collaboration that could generate up to $10.5 billion for the Chinese biotech.

The Dubai Future Solutions – Prototypes for Humanity initiative, one of the world’s largest programmes for university innovation and entrepreneurship, is advancing three university ventures from Switzerland, the United States, and Egypt into pilot deployment and commercial expansion in the UAE.

研究人员已确定卡达烯（一种从根茎中分离得到的化合物）具有杀虫和拒食活性。 紫香附子（Cyperus rotundus），用于防治秋粘虫幼虫 草地夜蛾该研究对植物提取物和纯化化合物进行了接触毒性、摄食抑制、幼虫发育和解毒酶活性测试。

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