A bioreactor can be defined as a device that uses mechanical means to influence biological processes. In tissue engineering bioreactors can be used to aid in the in vitro development of new tissue by providing biochemical and physical regulatory signals to cells and encouraging them to undergo differentiation and/or to produce extracellular matrix prior to in vivo implantation. This chapter dis...

*Correspondence: Kibret Mequanint , Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON N6A 5B9, Canada e-mail: [email protected] With the growing need for coronary revascularizations globally, several strategies to restore blood flow to the heart have been explored. Bypassing the atherosclerotic coronary arteries with autologous...

Metabolic engineering is rapidly developing, with a continuous stream of technological developments being employed to expand the portfolio of molecules produced in cell factories. For chemical production (e.g., amino acids, biofuels, among others), metabolic engineering has progressed through three phases [1]. Initially, biological products were obtained through random mutagenesis of production...

Metabolic diversity in microorganisms can provide the basis for creating novel biochemical products. However, most metabolic engineering projects utilize a handful of established model organisms and thus, a challenge for harnessing the potential of novel microbial functions is the ability to either heterologously express novel genes or directly utilize non-model organisms. Genetic manipulation ...

Background: A genome-scale metabolic network model (GEM) is a mathematical representation of an organism’s metabolism. Today, GEMs are popular tools for computationally simulating the biotechnological processes and for predicting biochemical properties of (engineered) strains.Objectives: In the present study, we have evaluated the predictive power of two ...

Cartilage is a tissue with only limited reparative capacities. A small part of its volume is composed of cells, the remaining part being the hydrated extracellular matrix (ECM) with collagens and proteoglycans as its main constituents. The functioning of cartilage depends heavily on its ECM. Although it is known that the various (fibro)cartilaginous tissues (articular cartilage, annulus fibrosu...

Microbial cell factories based on renewable carbon sources are fundamental to a sustainable bio-economy. The economic feasibility of producer cells requires robust performance balancing growth and production. However, the inherent competition between these two objectives often leads to instability and reduces productivity. While algorithms exist to design metabolic network reduction strategies ...

Enzymes found in nature have been exploited in industry due to their inherent catalytic properties in complex chemical processes under mild experimental and environmental conditions. The desired industrial goal is often difficult to achieve using the native form of the enzyme. Recent developments in protein engineering have revolutionized the development of commercially available enzymes into ...

Systems biology aims at understanding complex biological processes in terms of their basic mechanisms at the molecular level in cells. The bet of applying theoretical computer science concepts and software engineering methods to the analysis of distributed biochemical reaction systems in the cell, designed by natural evolution, has led to interesting challenges in computer science, and new mode...

mycoplasma ovipneumoniae is an important respiratory pathogen of sheep across the world. in the present study nasal swab samples (n=778) were processed and 51isolates of m. ovipneumoniae were identified through biochemical tests and pcr. difference in the isolation rate among districts (n=12), age groups (n=3), breads (n=6) was assessed. similarly the isolate rate among healthy (n=513) and resp...