To do this, they modified a technique developed for enzyme screening, based on micro-alginate beads. Inside these beads - each around 70 micrometers in diameter - bacteria can grow.

Beads which can store heat, which would otherwise be wasted, from various sources, including industrial operations and the summer sun. The new material has been made using alginate, an inexpensive ...

Growing stem cells faster on seaweed Date: December 1, 2015 Source: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Summary: Alginate forms a kind of supporting skeleton in the cell walls of certain kinds of algae.

The process starts with the dissolving of sodium alginate in water, followed by the addition of expanded graphite. Gelation can be achieved by transferring the solution into a mould for freezing.

M.C. Jaizme-Vega, A.S. Rodríguez-Romero, C. Marín Hermoso, S. Declerck, Growth of micropropagated bananas colonized by root-organ culture produced arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi entrapped in Ca- ...