Marine Resources Application Potential for Biotechnological Purposes, Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

Blue biotechnology plays a major role in converting marine biomass into societal value and is therefore a key pillar for many marine economy developmental frameworks and sustainability strategies: the Blue Growth Strategy, diverse Sea Basin Strategies (e.g., Atlantic Action Plan Priority 1 and 2 and COM(2017)183), the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the Limassol Declaration, or even the UN Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda. However, despite the recognized biotechnological potential of marine biomass, the work is dispersed between multiple areas of applied biotechnology, resulting in few concrete examples of product development.

Food and feeds, and high-revenue cosmeceutical, pharma, biomedical markets, and others, are increasingly more important for marine biocompounds, which hold a myriad of unexploited uses, as they have often been demonstrated to contain molecules with a plethora of bioactivities, ranging from antioxidant to anti-inflammatory, tissue-specific protection, antimicrobial, anti-tumoral, antifouling, and texturizer, among many others.

This Special Issue will cover review articles, short communications and research papers addressing marine resources’ in vitro and/or in vivo biological activities, which may present high applicability and potential for industrial purposes.

Dr. Marco F. L. Lemos
Dr. Sara C. Novais
Dr. Susana F. J. Silva
Dr. Carina Félix
Guest Editors

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