Team:LMU-Munich/Application
The LMU-Munich team is exuberantly happy about the great success at the World Championship Jamboree in Boston. Our project Beadzillus finished 4th and won the prize for the "Best Wiki" (with Slovenia) and "Best New Application Project".
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What are the potential advantages of using B. subtilis spores as functional bioparticals?
They are:
Very stable even under severe environmental conditions | |
Easy and cheap to produce in large quantities (check out the link to this commercial [http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/118791994/Bacillus_subtilis_spores_HU58_100_pure.html offer]) | |
Part of human nutrition in terms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_subtilis_R0179 food supplements] and [http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodIngredientsPackaging/GenerallyRecognizedasSafeGRAS/default.htm generally regarded as safe] | |
Moreover, our Sporobeads are: | |
Unable to proliferate and therefore most likely not treated as genetically modified organisms by the law |
Our Sporobeads offer a wide variety of applications within the laboratory, and around the world. Sporobeads can be used for filtration and protein screening.