Eco-Mimicry Opens New Doors for Bioprocess Engineers

Autor: Byoung Seung Jeon, Jose A. Magdalena, Largus T. Angenent, Joseph G. Usack
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Joule. 4:2074-2077
ISSN: 2542-4351
Popis: The natural world blends microenvironments to create a continuum of spatial niches wherein microbial consortia participate in metabolic exchanges. The capability with which nature selects a consortium to complement a given niche is often taken for granted. Not by Shahab et al. (2020), however, who created a synthetic microbial consortium to mediate a multi-step bioprocess in a single bioreactor system. The concept affords a fair degree of modularity in the choice of biocatalyst and a reasonable level of process control, thus making it an engineering tool.
Databáze: OpenAIRE