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Amine-Functionalized Sugarcane Bagasse: A Renewable Catalyst for Efficient Continuous Flow Knoevenagel Condensation Reaction at Room Temperature.

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
A biomass-based catalyst with amine groups (-NH₂), viz., amine-functionalized sugarcane bagasse (SCB-NH₂), was prepared through the amination of sugarcane bagasse (SCB) in a two-step process. The physicochemical properties of the catalyst were charac...

Ultrasound-assisted d-tartaric acid whole-cell bioconversion by recombinant Escherichia coli.

Ultrasonics sonochemistry
d-Tartaric acid has wide range of application in the pharmaceutical industry and scarcely exists in nature. In this study, cis-epoxysuccinate hydrolase (CESH)-containing Escherichia coli was used to perform whole-cell bioconversion of cis-epoxysuccin...

Biological standards for the Knowledge-Based BioEconomy: What is at stake.

New biotechnology
The contribution of life sciences to the Knowledge-Based Bioeconomy (KBBE) asks for the transition of contemporary, gene-based biotechnology from being a trial-and-error endeavour to becoming an authentic branch of engineering. One requisite to this ...

Liquid-handling Lego robots and experiments for STEM education and research.

PLoS biology
Liquid-handling robots have many applications for biotechnology and the life sciences, with increasing impact on everyday life. While playful robotics such as Lego Mindstorms significantly support education initiatives in mechatronics and programming...

Patent Network Analysis and Quadratic Assignment Procedures to Identify the Convergence of Robot Technologies.

PloS one
Because of the remarkable developments in robotics in recent years, technological convergence has been active in this area. We focused on finding patterns of convergence within robot technology using network analysis of patents in both the USPTO and ...

Modeling and optimization of anaerobic codigestion of potato waste and aquatic weed by response surface methodology and artificial neural network coupled genetic algorithm.

Bioresource technology
A novel approach to overcome the acidification problem has been attempted in the present study by codigesting industrial potato waste (PW) with Pistia stratiotes (PS, an aquatic weed). The effectiveness of codigestion of the weed and PW was tested in...

The Best Model of a Cat Is Several Cats.

Trends in biotechnology
Modern biotechnology is emerging at the intersection of engineering, biology, physics, and computer science. As such it carries with it history from several disparate fields of research including a strong tradition in deductive reasoning primarily de...

A β-mannanase from Paenibacillus sp.: Optimization of production and its possible prebiotic potential.

Biotechnology and applied biochemistry
A thermotolerant bacterium Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus with an ability to produce extracellular β-mannanase was isolated from a soil sample. Bacterium produced 45 U/mL β-mannanase at 50 °C. The culture conditions for high-level production of β-mann...

Use of uniform designs in combination with neural networks for viral infection process development.

Biotechnology progress
This work aimed to compare the predictive capacity of empirical models, based on the uniform design utilization combined to artificial neural networks with respect to classical factorial designs in bioprocess, using as example the rabies virus replic...