Background Analysis of pollen grains reveals valuable information on biology, ecology, forensics, climate change, insect migration, food sources and aeroallergens. Vibrational (infrared and Raman) spectroscopies offer ...

Microbiological source tracking (MST) for food industry is a rapid growing area of research and technology development. In this paper, a new library-independent approach for MST is presented. It is based on a high-throughput ...

FTIR and Raman spectroscopy, and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry are emerging technologies for multidimensional phenotyping of microorganisms. While FTIR and Raman both represent a full metabolic fingerprint, MALDI spectra ...

Background: Oleaginous yeasts are considered as a potential lipid source for food, feed and biofuel production. In order to make the yeast-based lipid production environmentally and economically sustainable, there is a ...

There is a profound duality between rays and waves. In fact, 70 years ago, in the context of quantum mechanics, Feynman showed that rays, properly equipped with phases and correctly summed, provide exact solutions of the ...

To assess whether Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy could be used to evaluate and monitor lipid extraction processes, the extraction methods of Folch, Bligh and Lewis were used. Biomass of the oleaginous fungi ...

Microorganisms have been considered for nearly a century for the production of economical and useful oils, but only in the past two or three decades they have been used commercially. These single cell oils contain high ...