Microbiology and Marine Biotechnology: old organisms and new products

Exploring Potentials of Marine Microbiology and Biotechnology in Developing Countries

Ocean occupies 70 % of the earth’s land mass. Forty percent of the world inhabitants are living along the coastline of the oceans. Marine ecosystems provide more potential biodiversity for novel products and services than any other ecosystem in the world. Marine lives ranging from bacteria to higher forms of lives are sources of micro and macro molecules required for advancement of biotechnolog...

Journal: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Marine Organisms as Food, Forage, Industrial, and Medical Products

Mining GOLD and new model organisms in biotechnology

Are you aware that 41% of completely sequenced microbial genomes remain unpublished? Where can scientists find this information? The answer is provided by Siezen and Wilson’s (2008) genomic update section article on unpublished, yet publicly available microbial genomes. The authors highlight that the GOLD (Genome OnLine Database, http://www.genomesonline.org) provides a complete and updated sta...

Marine Biotechnology and its potentials in cancer treatment: Review article

Marine environment has unique diversity. More than half of biodiversity lives at sea and oceans. Promotion of science and technology led to the future accession to marine species and study them and finally using marine product in human life. Using marine product for treatment of human malady is one of the most attractive applications of this component. Since cancer is the second mortality agent...