Annamalai Jeyakumari has won the
2012 Peter Howgate Award for young fish technologists. The EUR
500 prize has help her to attend specific training on 'encapsulation of fish
oils' under Dr.
Utai Klinkesorn, Assistant Professor in Department of Food Science and
Technology, Faculty of Agro-industry, Kasetsart University, Thailand. Jeyakumari works as a Scientist in Central Institute of
Fisheries Technology (Indian
Council of Agricultural Research) in Cochin, Kerala, India.
Bizarre headline of the day: Ripen bananas with shrimp shells.
Researchers in China have come up with a secondary banana coat made from discarded shrimp shells.
A hydrogel coating made of chitosan, derived from crustacean shells,
can prevent a banana from becoming overripe for about two weeks,
according to Xihong Li, lead author of a new banana study reported this
week at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting.
Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc. has successfully achieved a
commercial-scale aquaculture system that sustains the complete life
cycle of multiple generations of the Giant Keyhole Limpet (Megathura
crenulata), the scarce marine source for Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin
(KLH).
Stellar has developed a controlled, land-based aquaculture system that
supports the life cycle of the mollusk through all its stages and now,
for the first time, boasts multiple generations producing commercial
quantities of pharmaceutical grade KLH.
"This isn't just about increasing Stellar's KLH manufacturing
leadership -- which we've clearly done," said Frank Oakes, Stellar
President and CEO. "This is about controlling the lifecycle of the
source animal, allowing Stellar to grow new generations of limpets
spawned by parents that have never seen the ocean, thus ensuring that
the pharmaceutical industry has ample supply of GMP grade KLH, made
under controlled conditions, while protecting survival of a wild
species."
Brandon Lincucum, Stellar Aquaculture Manager, said, "This is the
culmination of more than ten years of highly-specialized development
work involving a range of disciplines. We've set the benchmark for KLH
manufacturing and we're proud to represent these new aquaculture and
environmental milestones as well."
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| English: The fleshy foot of a Giant Keyhole Limpet (Megathura crenulata) found in a tidepool at San Pedro. Also on Flickr. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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