Bioindustry Blog
Lactoferricin: a powerful natural and antiviral peptide
Today, there are many products on the market based on natural ingredients used for their different properties, among them, for example, antimicrobials and antivirals. Lactoferricin is an antiviral peptide and officially falls into this category and we at Bict S.r.l....
Viruses, organisms on the edge of life: how to fight them?
ANTIVIRALS Antivirals are a class of medicines with both therapeutic and preventive action for the treatment of viral infections. They act by inhibiting one of the various phases of the virus replication cycle: a) the absorption and penetration of the virus into the...
Chemical analysis laboratory
Enzymes, discovered in 1833, are increasingly used in cosmetics. In fact, natural beauty treatments are enjoying increasing success and enzyme-based treatments are becoming increasingly popular. This, in part, is due to the many advances that have been made in the...
Hydrolysed proteins, how much quality affects the different fields of application
Quality is fundamental, whatever the product in question. In the case of hydrolysed proteins, it is even more important to take care of the production process and the raw materials used. The fields of application, such as the ever-expanding nutraceutical industry,...
Organic fermentation of wine, because the type of yeast and enzymes are important.
The biological fermentation of wine is a very delicate process that determines the quality of the wine in an important way. The sugars present in the must are transformed into alcohol and carbon dioxide, which is why this phase is so important for the quality of the...
Enzymes in food flours, how to use and quantify them
Enzymes, currently used in the food industry, are derived from animals or plants (for example, one of the enzymes for digesting starch, amylase, can be derived from the seeds of germinating barley). But most are obtained from different types of beneficial...
Heterologous expression, typologies and development
Heterologous expression is an increasingly applied process in industry. The bacterial expression system is one of the most used resources also and above all because it is a resource with a low economic impact. The vector of expression is fundamental in such processes,...
Probiotics, their use in the food industry
Are probiotics just a passing fad that has peeped into the food industry for some time now or is it really something useful for our health? Many people claim that probiotics are good for the health of both humans and animals: in fact, they seem to have a very positive...
CRMO BiCT, research and development services for industrial products and processes
CRMO BiCT is an increasingly solid reality in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and nutraceutical sectors, as well as in animal and plant nutrition. The offer focuses on the development of industrial processes and products for the production of pre and probiotics,...
Biotechnology, medical and industrial applications
Modern biotechnology has long been widely used in many industries. This is possible because the basic material on which they are based, i.e. cells or enzymes, is very versatile. They are therefore used in the pharmaceutical, textile, chemical, food and many other...