Biotreatment

"Biotreatment" is the processing of waste or hazardous substance using living organisms such as bacteria, fungi or protozoa. It is an environmentally friendly, relatively simple and cost-effective alternative to physico-chemical clean-up options.

Oil Biodegradation

Petroleum oil is toxic for most life forms and can cause pollution of the environment. Microbial biodegradation can be employed to degrade the oil.cite book |author=Martins VAP et al|year=2008|chapter=Genomic Insights into Oil Biodegradation in Marine Systems|title=Microbial Biodegradation: Genomics and Molecular Biology|publisher=Caister Academic Press|id= ISBN 978-1-904455-17-2]

Waste Biotreatment

Confined environments, such as bioreactors, have been engineered to overcome the physical, chemical and biological limiting factors of biotreatment processes in highly controlled systems. The great versatility in the design of confined environments allows the treatment of a wide range of wastes under optimized conditions. Microorganisms with a variety of genomes and expressed transcripts and proteins can be used. Several high-throughput techniques originally developed for medical studies can be applied to assess biotreatment in confined environments.cite book |author=Stenuit B et al|year=2008|chapter=High-Throughput Approaches to Analyze Waste Biotreatmentin Confined Environments|title=Microbial Biodegradation: Genomics and Molecular Biology|publisher=Caister Academic Press|id=ISBN 978-1-904455-17-2]

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