«Researchers have to find the ways to cut the high production cost
of microalgae in order for such nutritionally enhanced tilapia to succeed in the market.
In one potential solution, Baker aims to boost the production of a
type of microalgae adapted to thrive in warmer temperatures.
There are hundreds of types and they come in many forms, but certain specifics
strains of microalgae may be extremely beneficial for human health.
Towards this end, we are exploring ways to reduce production costs and the environmental footprint
of microalgae production by using organic waste streams as a partial replacement for expensive inputs of inorganic fertilizer normally used to grow microalgae.
«Our research involved taking
samples of microalgae from adult snails and supply it to larvae at different ages.
Dartmouth Research Assistant Professor Pallab Sarker (left) and Professor Anne Kapucinski conduct an experiment on the use
of microalgae as a sustainable feed ingredient for aquaculture of tilapia.
Thus, when the characteristics of a water mass were favourable for
reproduction of microalgae, researchers noticed that after a certain amount of time, the aerosols detected above this same water mass contained more biological particles.
The chemical
composition of the microalgae is not an intrinsically constant factor, but varies over a wide range in accordance with the different cultivation factors such as temperature, light (intensity, wavelength and photoperiod), pH of the medium, supply of CO2, concentration and type of nutrients, source and concentration of nitrogen, salinity and growth phase.
Biotechnological production of chemicals using enzymes coupled with the
photosynthesis of microalgae is the topic of the new EU project PhotoBioCat.
Bendy Estime, a biomedical and chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate, has devoted his research to this area, and developed a new technology for energy efficient cultivation and
harvesting of microalgae.
«My goal was to improve the
growth of microalgae,» says Estime, who first studied biofuels as an engineering student in his native Haiti.
Scientists have long known of the
potential of microalgae to aid in the production of biofuels and other valuable chemicals.
Scientists from the BOREA research unit first suspected the
presence of microalgae in Paris streets after noting the characteristic green or brown color of gutter water and observing the presence of bubbles, which are the result of photosynthetic activity.
For his novel discoveries linking the genetic and biochemical control of triacylglycerol biosynthesis and turnover with cellular metabolism and nutrient
responses of microalgae, Xiaobo Li (Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California) is the winner of the Robert Rabson Award in 2016.
The nutrient
density of this microalgae provides you with a wide array of vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and amino acids; the building blocks of good health.
In the early 1980s, Dr. Cysewski was a group
leader of Microalgae Research and Development at Battelle Northwest, a major contract research and development firm and, before that, was an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara — where he received a two - year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a culture system for blue - green algae.
Inclusion of microalgae oils, fish eggs, or other long omega - 3 sources is more effective than flaxseed oil at raising tissue long omega - 3 levels.
Cyanotech, a
supplier of microalgae - derived (natural) astaxanthin, has an important warning for every health - conscious consumer.
It's a vegan, plant - based collagen product that contains 13,000
beads of microalgae oil per bottle.
This specialized
blend of microalgae is able to travel directly into the cells lining the digestive tract providing nutrients on a cellular level.
Conceptual Study of the Coupling of a Biorefinery Processfor Hydrothermal
Liquefaction of Microalgae with a Concentrating Solar Power Plant
As an IIE - SRF fellow at the University of Gothenburg, Al - Handal is again able to use his expertise in taxonomy of marine diatoms, a
type of microalgae, with the added advantage of direct access to a scanning electron microscope, which he didn't have in Iraq.
Researchers from Copenhagen Plant Science Centre at University of Copenhagen have succeeded in manipulating a
strain of microalgae to form complex molecules to an unprecedented extent.