Yeast immobilization systems for second?generation ethanol production: actual trends and future perspectives

Yeast Immobilization Systems for Alcoholic Wine Fermentations: Actual Trends and Future Perspectives

Yeast immobilization is defined as the physical confinement of intact cells to a region of space with conservation of biological activity. The use of these methodologies for alcoholic fermentation (AF) offers many advantages over the use of the conventional free yeast cell method and different immobilization systems have been proposed so far for different applications, like winemaking. The most...

Ukraine crisis: Trends and Perspectives

Thecrisis in Ukraine has become a tragedy, as is evidenced by the thousands ofpeople who have been killed, and hundreds of thousands of refugees. It willalter the future of Ukraine, Europe, Eurasia and possibly the world. The crisisbegan in the fall of 2013 as a public response to the authorities’ ill-advisedpolicy and the greed of the elite. However, clumsy assistance provided byconcerned «par...

Yeast metabolic engineering for hemicellulosic ethanol production.

Efficient fermentation of hemicellulosic sugars is critical for the bioconversion of lignocellulosics to ethanol. Efficient sugar uptake through the heterologous expression of yeast and fungal xylose/glucose transporters can improve fermentation if other metabolic steps are not rate limiting. Rectification of cofactor imbalances through heterologous expression of fungal xylose isomerase or modi...

Sorghum as a Multifunctional Crop for the Production of Fuel Ethanol: Current Status and Future Trends

Liposomal Paclitaxel : Recent Trends and Future Perspectives

One of the most promising anti-cancer agents paclitaxel, especially effective for treatment of ovarian and breast cancer, suffers from the problems like poor water solubility and low bioavailability. The current formulation available in a non-aqueous vehicle containing Cremophor EL® (polyethoxylated castor oil), on aqueous dilution, when given intravenously, may cause allergic reactions and pre...