One of the key challenges that we face in the 21st century is the need to feed an ever-
increasing human population with increasingly limited natural resources. Even today it is …

Owing to the current issues of rapid urbanization and motorization, worldwide petroleum oil
demand is increasing obstinately, which is another way of affecting the economy of a nation …

Label-free cell analysis is essential to personalized genomics, cancer diagnostics, and drug
development as it avoids adverse effects of staining reagents on cellular viability and cell …

Energy demands, pollution and global warming induced by globalization are rising, thus
calling for alternative sources of energies. In particular, biofuels are increasingly used for …

The consumption of fossil fuel sources and in particular, the emerging lethal issues
connected with global warming triggered by consumption of petroleum products have set off …

Microalgal lipids are highly promising feedstocks for biofuel production. Microalgal lipids,
especially triacylglycerol, and practical applications of these compounds have received …

In the last few years, there has been an intense interest in using microalgal lipids in food,
chemical and pharmaceutical industries and cosmetology, while a noteworthy research has …

Diatoms, a major group of photosynthetic microalgae, have a high biotechnological potential
that has not been fully exploited because of the paucity of available genetic tools. Here we …

Background When cultivated under stress conditions, many microalgae species accumulate
both starch and oil (triacylglycerols). The model green microalga Chlamydomonas …

Biologically derived fuels are viable alternatives to traditional fossil fuels, and microalgae
are a particularly promising source, but improvements are required throughout the …