Understanding the impact of microplastic contamination on soil quality and eco-toxicological risks in horticulture: A comprehensive review by N.P. Gayathri, Geena Prasad, Vaishna Prabhakaran, Vishnu Priya

“…The review covers potential sources of microplastics, their impact on horticultural crops including eco-toxicity, various identification techniques, and proposed mitigation measures, offering insights for environmentalists, biotechnologists, and policymakers to proactively mitigate risks.…”
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Bioethical Aspects of Human Geneticization by Marcin Leźnicki

“…Despite the wide range of benefits claimed by scientists (including biotechnologists and geneticists), these practices undoubtedly generate a number of ethical and legal problems. …”
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Antiviral Effects of Polyphenols from Marine Algae by Natalya N. Besednova, Boris G. Andryukov, Tatyana S. Zaporozhets, Sergey P. Kryzhanovsky, Ludmila N. Fedyanina, Tatyana A. Kuznetsova, Tatyana N. Zvyagintseva, Mikhail Yu. Shchelkanov

“…In recent decades, marine macroalgae have attracted the attention of biotechnologists and pharmacologists as a promising and almost inexhaustible source of polyphenols. …”
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Assessment of Microplastics Pollution on Soil Health and Eco-toxicological Risk in Horticulture by Umesh Sharma, Sunny Sharma, Vishal Singh Rana, Neerja Rana, Vijay Kumar, Shilpa Sharma, Humaira Qadri, Vineet Kumar, Sartaj Ahmad Bhat

“…This research aims to help environmentalists, biotechnologists, and policymakers understand the mechanism and dynamics of microplastics in soils and edible parts so that potential risks can be mitigated in advance.…”
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Czy inżynieria genetyczna? Za i przeciw modyfikowaniu naszej żywności by Jerzy Macewicz

“…Then there is a chance to hear arguments of biotechnologists and their fierce adversaries - ecologists.…”
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Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)-Based Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery by Mohammad Reza Saeb, Navid Rabiee, Masoud Mozafari, Ebrahim Mostafavi

“…Nanoscale MOFs (NMOFs), as cargo nanocarriers, have increasingly attracted the attention of scientists and biotechnologists during the past decade, in parallel with the evolution in the use of porous nanomaterials in biomedicine. …”
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Aplication of<em> in vitro</em> selection in potato genetic breeding for early blight resistance by Novisel Veitía, Yelenys Alvarado-Capó, Lourdes R. García, Idalmis Bermúdez-Caraballoso, Michel Leiva-Mora

“…Biotechnology tools, such as tissue culture, mutagenesis and in vitro selection, contribute to reduce these limitations.Besides, the fact that potato is a species which has been widely investigated by biotechnologists. The use of these techniques would enlarge the knowledge in plant-pathogen interaction in pathosystem potato-Alternaria solani. …”
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Inscrutable futures: biotechnology, architecture, and planetary ecology in late industrial China by Kirksey, E, Su, A

“…The future is becoming inscrutable in Shenzhen, a city in southern China, despite eforts by biotechnologists to make life predictable and subject to control. …”

Turning Inside Out: Filamentous Fungal Secretion and Its Applications in Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Clinic by Timothy C. Cairns, Xiaomei Zheng, Ping Zheng, Jibin Sun, Vera Meyer

“…Vital to this success is their ability to secrete a diverse range of molecules, including hydrolytic enzymes, organic acids, and small molecular weight natural products. Industrial biotechnologists have successfully harnessed and re-engineered the secretory capacity of dozens of filamentous fungal species to make a diverse portfolio of useful molecules. …”
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Biotechnology Data Analysis Training with Jupyter Notebooks by Ulf W. Liebal, Rafael Schimassek, Iris Broderius, Nicole Maaßen, Alina Vogelgesang, Philipp Weyers, Lars M. Blank

“…However, the rate of change outpaces the adaptation of biotechnology curricula, necessitating new teaching methodologies to equip biotechnologists with data analysis abilities. To simulate experimental data, we created a virtual organism simulator (silvio) by combining diverse cellular and subcellular microbial models. …”
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Tracing a new path in the field of AI and robotics: mimicking human intelligence through chemistry. Part I: molecular and supramolecular chemistry by Pier Luigi Gentili, Pasquale Stano

“…It is undoubtedly worth spreading the news that AI researchers can rely on the help of chemists and biotechnologists to reach the ambitious goals of building intelligent systems from scratch. …”
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Nanotechnology Meets Oncology: A Perspective on the Role of the Personalized Nanoparticle-Protein Corona in the Development of Technologies for Pancreatic Cancer Detection by Damiano Caputo, Erica Quagliarini, Daniela Pozzi, Giulio Caracciolo

“…A few years later our joint research team made of physicists, chemists, biotechnologists, surgeons, oncologists, and bioinformaticians introduced the concept of “personalized protein corona” and demonstrated that it is unique for each human condition. …”
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Gravitation field algorithm and its application in gene cluster by Zheng Ming, Liu Gui-xia, Zhou Chun-guang, Liang Yan-chun, Wang Yan

“…SA, GA, PSO and other similar efficient global optimization methods are used by biotechnologists. All these algorithms are based on the imitation of natural phenomena.…”
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New challenges for the design of high value plant products: stabilization of anthocyanins in plant vacuoles by Valentina ePasseri, Ronald eKoes, Francesca Margherita Quattrocchio

“…In the last decade plant biotechnologists and breeders have made several attempt to improve the antioxidant content of plant-derived food. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of azo-guanidine based alcoholic media naked eye DNA sensor by Ataf Ali Altaf, Uzma Hashmat, Muhammad Yousaf, Bhajan Lal, Shafiq Ullah, Alvin A. Holder, Amin Badshah

“…DNA sensing always has an open meadow of curiosity for biotechnologists and other researchers. Recently, in this field, we have introduced an emerging class of molecules containing azo and guanidine functionalities. …”
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Industrial Use of Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes: The Fine Line Between Production Strategy and Economic Feasibility by Moira Giovannoni, Giovanna Gramegna, Manuel Benedetti, Benedetta Mattei

“…The optimization of a CWDE-producing biofactory is a hard challenge that biotechnologists tackle by testing different expression strategies and expression-hosts. …”
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Metabolic Plasticity and Inter-Compartmental Interactions in Rice Metabolism: An Analysis from Reaction Deletion Study. by Rahul Shaw, Sudip Kundu

“…Thus, understanding the rice cellular metabolism, its plasticity and potential readjustments under different perturbations can help rice biotechnologists to design efficient rice cultivars. Here, using the flux balance analysis (FBA) method, with the help of in-silico reaction deletion strategy, we study the metabolic plasticity of genome-scale metabolic model of rice leaf. …”
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Features of acid–base balance of bone marrow by Lyudmila P Nikolaeva

“…This paper can be of interest to biotechnologists and researchers who investigate possibilities to influence the differentiation and properties of the stem cells.…”
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Multiple Adaptive Strategies of Himalayan Iodobacter sp. PCH194 to High-Altitude Stresses by Vijay Kumar, Prakriti Kashyap, Subhash Kumar, Subhash Kumar, Vikas Thakur, Vikas Thakur, Sanjay Kumar, Dharam Singh, Dharam Singh

“…Bacterial adaption to the multiple stressed environments of high-altitude niches in the Himalayas is intriguing and is of considerable interest to biotechnologists. Previously, we studied the culturable and unculturable metagenome microbial diversity from glacial and kettle lakes in the Western Himalayas. …”
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Beads for Cell Immobilization: Comparison of Alternative Additive Manufacturing Techniques by Maria Laura Gatto, Paolo Mengucci, Daniel Munteanu, Roberto Nasini, Emanuele Tognoli, Lucia Denti, Andrea Gatto

“…The paper provides biotechnologists with a manufacturing perspective, and the results can be directly applied to transit from the laboratory to the industrial scale.…”
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