Grand challenges in biology and biotechnology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 3 - 10
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025
Язык: Английский
Nature Communications, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 14(1)
Опубликована: Март 21, 2023
Finding sustainable approaches to achieve independence from terrestrial resources is of pivotal importance for the future space exploration. This relevant not only establish viable exploration beyond low Earth-orbit, but also ethical considerations associated with generation waste and preservation extra-terrestrial environments. Here we propose highlight a series microbial biotechnologies uniquely suited processes in situ resource utilization loop-closure. Microbial research development sustainability will be translatable Earth applications, tackling environmental issues, thereby supporting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Язык: Английский
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Future Foods, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 9, С. 100318 - 100318
Опубликована: Фев. 12, 2024
The world population is expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050 according a report the United Nations. global demand for alternative proteins from different sources, such as microalgae, mycoproteins, insects, cell-based, cultured meat, meat substitutes, dairy alternatives, and fungi-based proteins, projected USD 290 2035. Due their similar characteristics, offered at relatively more affordable cost than animal plant-based are experiencing significant demand. In recent years, industrial production of microalgal biomass has received attention due its rich content quality lipids, fatty acids, pigments, whose products commercial interest in field food technology engineering. Microalgae can be grown easily open closed systems high-value products. Spirulina Chlorella have outstanding ability accumulate protein already been used products, feed, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals. Here, we review current literature, including new insights into patent landscape about algal wholistically quality, culture conditions, recovery, potential applications uses, discuss find sources needs.
Язык: Английский
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Carbohydrate Polymers, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 300, С. 120267 - 120267
Опубликована: Окт. 30, 2022
Язык: Английский
Процитировано
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Nature Communications, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 14(1)
Опубликована: Апрель 21, 2023
Abstract As renewed interest in human space-exploration intensifies, a coherent and modernized strategy for mission design planning has become increasingly crucial. Biotechnology emerged as promising approach to increase resilience, flexibility, efficiency of missions, by virtue its ability effectively utilize situ resources reclaim from waste streams. Here we outline four primary mission-classes on Moon Mars that drive staged accretive biomanufacturing strategy. Each class requires unique integrate into the existing mission-architecture so faces challenges technology development. These stem directly available given mission-class—the degree which feedstocks are derived cargo resources—and loop-closure is necessary. duration distance Earth increase, benefits specialized, sustainable processes also increase. Consequentially, define specific design-scenarios quantify usefulness in-space biomanufacturing, guide techno-economics space-missions. Especially materials potentially pivotal target with large impact up-mass cost. Subsequently, needed development, testing, deployment requisite technologies. space-related development often does, these advancements likely have profound implications creation resilient circular bioeconomy Earth.
Язык: Английский
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Polysaccharides, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 5(3), С. 241 - 287
Опубликована: Июль 13, 2024
Exopolysaccharides (EPSs) are a diverse class of biopolymers synthesized by microorganisms under environmental stress conditions, such as pH, temperature, light intensity, and salinity. They offer biodegradable environmentally friendly alternatives to synthetic polymers. Their structural versatility functional properties make them unique in various industries, including food, pharmaceuticals, biomedicine, cosmetics, textiles, petroleum, remediation. In this way, among the well-known EPSs, homopolysaccharides like dextran, bacterial cellulose, curdlan, levan, well heteropolysaccharides xanthan gum, alginate, gellan, kefiran, have found widespread applications numerous fields. However, recent attention has focused on potential role extremophile bacteria producing EPSs with novel unusual protective biological features extreme conditions. Therefore, review provides an overview commonly employed EPSs. It emphasizes their importance industries scientific endeavors while highlighting raised interest exploring compositions, structures, properties, underexplored functionalities. Nevertheless, despite benefits challenges persist. Hence, discusses these challenges, explores opportunities, outlines future directions, focusing impact developing innovative, sustainable, materials.
Язык: Английский
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Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 25
Опубликована: Фев. 3, 2025
Food 3D printing brings food processing technology into the digital age. This is a vast field that can provide entertainment experience, personalized and specific nutritional needs. However, limited availability of suitable raw materials has restricted extensive use technique. The search for novel nutritious healthy meet demand core sustainable development this emerging technology. mechanism, precise nutrition, future outlooks challenges application in hybrid plant animal are also analyzed.The results demonstrate selecting mixing them ingredients without adding additives result printable inks, which improve nutritive value eating quality printed products. Sustainability such as cell culture meat microbial protein mixed with conventional to realize be potential research direction. Some other issues should considered research, evaluation efficacy product, product stability, shelf life, production efficiency convenience process operation.
Язык: Английский
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npj Microgravity, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 9(1)
Опубликована: Авг. 24, 2023
Abstract Long-term human space exploration missions require environmental control and closed Life Support Systems (LSS) capable of producing recycling resources, thus fulfilling all the essential metabolic needs for survival in harsh environments, both during travel on orbital/planetary stations. This will become increasingly necessary as reach farther away from Earth, thereby limiting technical economic feasibility resupplying resources Earth. Further incorporation biological elements into state-of-the-art (mostly abiotic) LSS, leading to bioregenerative LSS (BLSS), is needed additional resource recovery, food production, waste treatment solutions, enable more self-sustainable Moon Mars. There a whole suite functions crucial sustain presence Low Earth Orbit (LEO) successful settlement or Mars such control, air regeneration, management, water supply, cabin/habitat pressurization, radiation protection, energy means transportation, communication, recreation. In this paper, we focus air, address some aspects protection We briefly discuss existing knowledge, highlight open gaps, propose possible future experiments short-, medium-, long-term achieve targets crewed also benefits
Язык: Английский
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Life Sciences in Space Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 41, С. 181 - 190
Опубликована: Март 13, 2024
Язык: Английский
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Microbial Biotechnology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 17(5)
Опубликована: Апрель 29, 2024
Microbial technologies constitute a huge and unique potential for confronting major humanitarian biosphere challenges, especially in the realms of sustainability providing basic goods services where they are needed particularly low-resource settings. These evolving rapidly. Powerful approaches being developed to create novel products, processes, circular economies, including new prophylactics therapies healthcare, bioelectric systems, whole-cell understanding metabolism that provides insights into mechanisms how can be utilised applications. The modulation microbiomes promises important applications mitigate problems number spheres. Collectively, microbial save millions lives each year have potential, through increased deployment, many more. They help restore environmental health, improve soil fertility, enable regenerative agriculture, reduce biodiversity losses, pollution, polluted environments. Many may considered 'healing' - healing humans, other members biosphere, environment. This is Age Technology. However, current exploitation service humanity planetary health woefully inadequate this failing unnecessarily costs deterioration. Microbiologists practitioners these special, preordained responsibility promote increase their deployment good planet. To do effectively actually make difference microbiologists will need partner with key enablers gatekeepers, players such as scientists essential complementary skills like bioengineering bioinformatics, politicians, financiers, captains industry, international organisations, general public. Orchestration coordination establishment functioning effective partnerships best accomplished by learned societies, academies, umbrella organisations societies. Effective dedication tasks at hand require unstinting support from employers, heads institutes higher education research establishments. Humanity currently facing challenges survival not experienced millennia. Effectively existential, societies pivotal roles play: must step up act now.
Язык: Английский
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Frontiers in Microbiology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 15
Опубликована: Июнь 5, 2024
Nature exhibits an enormous diversity of organisms that thrive in extreme environments. From snow algae reproduce at sub-zero temperatures to radiotrophic fungi nuclear radiation Chernobyl, raise many questions about the limits life. Is there any environment where life could not “find a way”? Although individual extremophilic have been identified and studied, remain outstanding extent which properties can be enhanced, combined or transferred new organisms. In this review, we compile current knowledge on bioengineering extremophile microbes. We summarize what is known basic mechanisms adaptations, synthetic biology’s efforts engineer beyond found nature, highlight adaptations combined. The science extremophiles applied engineered tailored specific biomanufacturing needs, such as growth high presence unusual solvents.
Язык: Английский
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