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  title info:
    title: Grand Challenges in Marine Biotechnology
  name:
    name part: Rampelotto, Pabulo H.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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  name:
    name part: Trincone, Antonio.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 616 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book serves as essential reading for research scientists and biotechnologists from both academia and industry working in marine biotechnology and related disciplines. The book discusses recent advances and challenges in terms of science, technology, innovation, and policy for the development of the field; and how marine biotechnology may provide new solutions to some of the grand challenges faced by our society. Written in an accessible language, the book is also recommended as a reference text for decision-makers in government and non-governmental organizations in their efforts to foster the development of a global blue economy. With less than 5 % of the vast and rich marine environment explored, our seas and oceans represent a virtually unexplored resource for the discovery of novel product, processes, and development of bio-inspired synthetic drugs with biotechnological potential. As such, the marine environment has been considered Earth's last frontier of exploration. Recent advances in molecular techniques are providing the necessary tools to access on a larger scale the still-untapped ocean resources and, consequently, unveil the promise of the blue biotechnology. Governments are recognizing the potential of marine biotechnology to provide solutions to some of the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century such as sustainable energy and food sources, identification of novel drugs for improved health treatments, and providing new industrial materials and processes. For this reason, advances in marine biotechnology may foster the much-needed source of innovation and economic growth in many countries, and pave the way towards the development of a global blue economy, i.e. a new economic model based on the sustainable exploration of our ocean ecosystems.
  table of contents: Part-1: The Promise of the Blue Biotechnology. The Marine Ecosystem as a Source of Antibiotics.- Seaweeds: Valuable Ingredients for the Pharmaceuticals Industries.- Anti-Infective Compounds from Marine Organisms.- The Marine-Derived Filamentous Fungi in Biotechnology.- Aplysinopsins as Promising Marine Natural Product Drug Leads.- Potential of Hydrogen Fermentative Pathways in Marine Thermophilic Bacteria.- Anaerobic Digestion and Gasification of Seaweed -- Part-2: The Economic Potential of Marine Biotechnology. The Global Market for Marine Biotechnology: The Underwater World of Marine Biotech Firms.- How to Succeed in Marketing Marine Natural Products for Pharmaceutical, Cosmetics and Nutraceutical Markets.- EMBRC and EMBRIC: Two European Instruments to Promote the Blue Bioeconomy -- Part-3: Supporting the Development of Marine Biotechnology. Grand Challenges in Marine Biotechnology: Overview of Recent EU-Funded Projects.- SeaBioTech: From Sea-bed to Test-bed: Harvesting the Potential of Marine Biodiversity for Industrial Biotechnology.- BluePharmTrain: Biology and Biotechnology of Marine Sponges.- ChiBio: An Integrated Bio-Refinery for Processing Chitin Rich Bio-Waste to Specialty Chemicals.- Utilization of Marine Genetic Resources: The Access and Benefit-Sharing Legal Framework.
  note: edited by Pabulo H. Rampelotto, Antonio Trincone.
  subject:
    topic: Microbial genetics
  subject:
    topic: Microbial genomics
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental engineering
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Microbial Genetics and Genomics
  subject:
    topic: Applied Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
  classification: QH434
  classification: 579.135
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Grand Challenges in Biology and Biotechnology
  identifier: 9783319690759
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69075-9
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    record creation date: 180515
    record change date: 20191024031603.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-69075-9