Science advances
Oct 20, 2023
Mechanosensing, the transduction of extracellular mechanical stimuli into intracellular biochemical signals, is a fundamental property of living cells. However, endowing synthetic materials with mechanosensing capabilities comparable to biological le...
Critical reviews in biotechnology
Aug 16, 2023
Natural astaxanthin is synthesized by diverse organisms including: bacteria, fungi, microalgae, and plants involving complex cellular processes, which depend on numerous interrelated parameters. Nonetheless, existing knowledge regarding astaxanthin b...
New biotechnology
Jul 17, 2023
In this work, a model for the characterization of microalgae cultures based on artificial neural networks has been developed. The characterization of microalgae cultures is essential to guarantee the quality of the biomass, and the objective of this ...
Micron (Oxford, England : 1993)
Jun 28, 2023
Microalgae possess diverse applications, such as food production, animal feed, cosmetics, plastics manufacturing, and renewable energy sources. However, uncontrolled proliferation, known as algal bloom, can detrimentally impact ecosystems. Therefore,...
Environmental science & technology
May 26, 2023
Microalgal biotechnology holds the potential for renewable biofuels, bioproducts, and carbon capture applications due to unparalleled photosynthetic efficiency and diversity. Outdoor open raceway pond (ORP) cultivation enables utilization of sunlight...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Mar 29, 2022
In this study, we are reporting a novel prediction model for forecasting the carbon dioxide (CO) fixation of microalgae which is based on the hybrid approach of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and genetic algorithm (GA). The CO fixation...
Nature communications
Jan 27, 2022
Algal biofuel is regarded as one of the ultimate solutions for renewable energy, but its commercialization is hindered by growth limitations caused by mutual shading and high harvest costs. We overcome these challenges by advancing machine learning t...
Biotechnology and bioengineering
Nov 8, 2021
Predictive modeling of new biochemical systems with small data is a great challenge. To fill this gap, transfer learning, a subdomain of machine learning that serves to transfer knowledge from a generalized model to a more domain-specific model, prov...
Journal of biotechnology
Feb 22, 2020
Artificial neural network (ANN) models can be trained to simulate the dynamic behavior of biological systems. In the present study, an ANN model was developed upon multilayer perceptron neural network architecture with 23-20-1 configuration to predic...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Nov 28, 2019
In this study, we aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of the application of biocompatible liquid type fluorescent carbon nanodots (C-paints) to microalgae by improving microalgae productivity. C-paints were prepared by a simple process of ultrasound...