Limited available water resources have rendered wastewater reuse an important issue to specialists in most developed countries, today. The current study works on membrane filtration for treatment of industrial wastewater. By comparing the two methods of membrane bioreactor (MBR) and hybrid membrane electro bioreactor (MEBR) processes, it finds that earlier fouling in the membrane occurs in the ...

This work presents a study about the elimination of anticancer drugs, a group of pollutants considered recalcitrant during conventional activated sludge wastewater treatment, using a biological treatment based on the fungus Trametes versicolor. A 10-L fluidized bed bioreactor inoculated with this fungus was set up in order to evaluate the removal of 10 selected anticancer drugs in real hospital...

Bioartificial liver devices aim to support patients with acute liver failure (ALF) until orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) or spontaneous recovery due to hepatic regeneration can occur. However, initial clinical experiences with two devices have indicated that functional efficacy in this setting may be less than in the experimental situation. Several fundamental issues remain unresolved, i...

Introduction Bone tissue engineering aims at the generation of functional bone tissue for replacement of defect bone tissue in order to reestablish normal function. For this purpose mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are widely used since they can be isolated from different sources and can easily be differentiated in vitro into the mesenchymal lineages [1,2]. The aim of this work was to study the ef...

We report here the enhanced hemicellulase production by a Talaromyces thermophilus strain in a fed-batch fermentation using 3.6-litre laboratory-controlled bioreactor. When grown on wheat bran, this fungus produces a wide spectrum of polysaccharide-hydrolysing enzymes, mainly endo-b-1,4-xylanase (27 U/mL), b-xylosidase (1.4 U/mL), a-L-arabinofuranosidase (1.05 U/mL) and b-D-mannosidase (0.78 U/...