Biotechnology: a textbook of industrial microbiology

A Short Textbook of Microbiology

From applied microbiology to biotechnology: science, medicine and industrial renewal.

In the late 1970s politicians and civil servants were acutely aware of the chronic decline of the manufacturing sector as a source of employment in Britain. At a time of fear of mass unemployment, sources of new work were urgently sought. Biotechnology had been promoted by visionaries since the early twentieth century. With oil prices soaring, its potential to produce substitutes for petroleum ...

A Short Textbook of Medical Microbiology

THIS is an English edition of an atlas first published in Germany and the very readable style of the text is a tribute to both the translator and the authors. The book deals with the diagnosis of the important lesions in gynaecological cytology and with the cellular changes which give rise to diagnostic confusion. Following a chapter on basic cytology there are others dealing with inflammatory ...

Bioremediation Approaches in a Laboratory Activity for the Industrial Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology (IBAM) Course†

Microbial biotechnology meets environmental microbiology

Amir Aharoni, Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. The size of the microbial world is beyond our imagination. In last year’s crystal ball article, Tom Curtis compared the size of the microbial world to the size of the universe pointing out that the number of microorganisms in the world is billion...