Biotechnology
The papers chosen for this Special Issue reflect recent developments and embrace novel sensor approaches and embracenovel sensor approaches to understanding organism behaviour and metabolic mechanisms.
Abstract
*Brunel University, UK Biotechnology, or the useful deployment of biological techniques for the benefit of mankind, is a rapidly developing discipline with wide impact in the field of health, food production and environmental protection. As biotechnology has developed, it has thrown-up an increasing number of research problems that required inter-disciplinary team efforts for their solutions. Such problems required collaborative efforts to strengthen basic understanding of organism behaviour and metabolic mechanisms. Moving nearer to the market, considerable collaborative efforts between control engineers and microbiological process engineers have been devoted to the production of foodstuffs and drugs for the pharmaceuticals industry through the fermentation process. The papers chosen for this Special Issue reflect recent developments and embrace novel sensor approaches and