Biotechnology: Challenge for the food industry

Microbial Biofilms: The Challenge of Food Industry

Failure in the cleaning process may form a conditioned film on the food processing surfaces which allows bacterial adherence. After the initial adhesion the microorganism start to multiplicate and results in a cell mass embedded in a complex exopolysaccharide matrix known as biofilm. Microorganisms in biofilm are more resistant to antimicrobial compounds than planktonic cells. That behavior all...

The challenge of biotechnology.

Microarrays for biotechnology: The imaging challenge

Our goal is to develop intelligent molecular diagnostic systems (IMDS) that can analyze liquid samples that contain a variety of biochemical compounds. In order to analyze the liquid samples we use dedicated microarrays. At this stage, these are basically miniaturized micro titer plates. Typical dimensions of a well are 200 x 200 x 20 μm. These dimensions may be varied and the shape of the well...

Industry dynamics in biotechnology

The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun in 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically-modified microorganism could be patented. The growth of the Biotechnology industry has stimulated extensive research on its determinants. One of the areas which has attracted a fair amount of attention is the distribution of firm size within an industry. What...

Biotechnology Industry Trends

The biotechnology industry is not defined by its products, but by the technologies employed in making them. Those technologies involve the use of biological processes to solve problems or to make useful products. Biotechnologies are primarily employed in the medical and pharmaceutical industries, but they are also used to increase crop yields, clean up hazardous waste, and increase the efficien...