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What is microbial engineering and what are its characteristics?

Taking advantage of the large number of microorganisms and their fast metabolic rate to implant useful genetic codes in microorganisms, to use the bodies of microorganisms to make medicines for human beings, etc.

Highly efficient and easy to industrialize

Microbial engineering is also called fermentation engineering. Fermentation is a unique role of microorganisms, which was recognized by humans thousands of years ago and used to make wine and bread. Microbial engineering, a general term for large-scale fermentation production processes, is the use of microbial fermentation, the production of useful substances by means of modern engineering technology, or the direct application of microorganisms to bioreactors. It is based on the fermentation process to absorb the results of genetic engineering, cell engineering and enzyme engineering, as well as other technologies and formed.

Fermentation engineering is closely related to the chemical industry, medicine, food, energy, environmental protection and agriculture and animal husbandry and many other fields, and its development has great economic benefits.DNA recombination technology and bioreactors? containers with immobilized enzymes, capable of biochemical synthesis, are the two pillars of bioengineering. Bioreactors are particularly important from the point of view of industrial-scale production. Because it is only through microbial fermentation that new industries can be formed.