The contribution of microbial biotechnology to sustainable development goals.

Kenneth Timmis, Willem M de Vos, Juan Luis Ramos, Siegfried E Vlaeminck, Auxiliadora Prieto, Antoine Danchin, Willy Verstraete, Victor de Lorenzo, Sang Yup Lee, Harald Brüssow, James Kenneth Timmis, Brajesh K Singh

Journal: Microbial biotechnology 2018;10(5):984-987

PMID: 28840974

Abstract

The signature and almost unique characteristic of microbial technology is the exceptional diversity of applications it can address, and the exceptional range of human activities and needs to which it is and can be applied. Precisely because sustainability goals have very diverse and complex components and requirements, microbial technology has the ability to contribute substantively on many levels in many arenas to global efforts to achieve sustainability. Indeed, microbial technology could be viewed as a unifying element in our progress towards sustainability.

© 2017 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology.

Address: Institute of Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.; Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.; Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.; Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, Granada, Spain.; Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.; Polymer Biotechnology Lab, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Madrid, Spain.; ICAN, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.; Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.; Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Madrid, Spain.; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea.; Nestlé Research Centre, Nutrition and Health Research, Lausanne, Switzerland.; MSc Health Policy Student, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, UK.; Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith South, NSW, Australia.
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