An important strategy in harnessing the power of the microbiome is the use of live biotherapeutic products (LBPs): living microbes intended to prevent or cure a disease. While there is great potential for these products to alleviate conditions via the …
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Many everyday products are made with the use of microorganisms in an industrial fermentation process. Foods such as bread and yoghurt make use of industrially produced yeast and lactic acid bacteria. The processing of many foods uses food enzymes made …
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Microbiology took its first great step with the development of a liquid culture medium in 1860 by none other than the “father of microbiology,” Louis Pasteur. Bacterial culture techniques revolutionised the biological sciences. They allow us to isolate and investigate …
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The Fermentation Process Improvement & Development of Novel Microbial Ingredients experts meeting was held on Thursday May 6, 2021. The meeting hosts were Dr Derek Butler and Dr Radhika Bongoni from BaseClear. The meeting focused on how genomic technologies are …
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On Tuesday November 24, 2020, BaseClear organised an experts meeting on “Discovery of Novel Microbial Strains and the Impact of the Nagoya protocol“. In this meeting experts from the Centre for Genetic Resources, DSM Nutritional Products, WUR, SINTEF and BaseClear …
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Obtaining approval to use microbes as feed or food additive or as a production strain can be challenging. The European (EU / EFSA) and US (US-FDA) regulatory agencies now have strict guidelines for submitting dossiers. Applying the regulatory guidelines and …
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Recently, a seismic shift occurred in the probiotics world when the entire Lactobacillus genus underwent reclassification and renaming. There were several very sensible reasons why this was done. The Lactobacilli had become a behemoth: the genus was one of the …
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Just like water and minerals, the world’s biodiversity is a natural resource and unique to many countries. Biological diversity is important for society in many ways: economic, ecological, recreational, cultural and scientific activities rely on biodiversity. While plants and animals …
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Getting a new animal feed product approved for sale in the European Union can be a minefield. In particular, organic feed products require proof they have not been produced by a genetically modified organism (GMO) for approval. It is not …
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The 2nd Experts meeting on Strain Safety Assessment for Regulatory Approval on April 21st 2020 was hosted as a complete online edition due to the measures related to the Covid-19 outbreak. Also in this online format the meeting was a …
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While the European (EU / EFSA) and American (US-FDA) regulatory bodies have established guidelines for the approval of novel microbial strains in food and feed applications, these guidelines are regularly updated and in some cases are difficult to interpret, making …
Read more The Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda collaborated with BaseClear in an Enabling Technology Hotel (ETH) project for the whole genome sequencing of colistin-resistant bacteria. By combining short-read (Illumina) and long-read (Nanopore) sequencing technologies, the partners succeeded in revealing …
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