Summer Training in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics | Experiome
Spirulina is a blue-green algae or cyanobacteria which is found in high-salt alkaline water, subtropical and tropical places such as America, Mexico, Asia, and Central Africa. It’s asexual reproduction reduces the danger of gene escape into the food chain, as well as the accompanying food security and regulatory concerns. It contains a lot of macro and micronutrients, important amino acids, proteins, lipids, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. With these characteristics, photosynthetic cyanobacteria have been used in a variety of industries, including food, health, and pharmaceuticals. It is consumed mainly in central Africa and later NASA started using spirulina as a nutritional supplement for astronauts on space missions. It gained attention for therapeutic benefits like hypercholesterolemia, hyperglycerolemia, cardiovascular diseases, inflammatory diseases, allergies, cancer and viral infections.
Spirulina, as a plant-based biopharmaceutical, has the potential to overcome the constraints and limits of existing crop-and algal-based platforms.
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