Chitosan - effective alternative to growth-promoting antibiotics
Scientists at the Basque technological centre Neiker-Tecnalia tested chitosan as a healthy alternative to prohibited, growth-promoting antibiotics for ruminants.

In this rubric we present you scientific news from the world of chitin and chitosan. Monthly you can find recent publications. We hope to arouse your interest in this biopolymer or to help you out. If you have any comments or if you do chitin or chitosan research and you want to publish your article on this page,
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Scientists at the Basque technological centre Neiker-Tecnalia tested chitosan as a healthy alternative to prohibited, growth-promoting antibiotics for ruminants.
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Scientists of the University of Hamburg investigated the activity of chitosan against four microorganisms that can be found especially in seafood.
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Even in the beginning of summer chitin and chitosan research is going on. 130 articles were published in journals. 50 submitted papers edited in China, 10 in the US and 9 in South Corea. You want to learn more about the foci of interest? Just keep on reading.
chitosan, Hydrogel, scaffolds, carboxychitosan, hydroxyapatite
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Besides the event in the first half of the year 2009 - the European Conference on Chitin and Chitosan in Venice - many different articles in chitin and chitosan research were published in scientific journals. Here you can find an overview of some of them...
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Whats new in April? Many different articles about chitin and chitosan were published in scientific journals.
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The younth in Germany is also researching about chitosan. Two scoolgirls land not only a first prize, but also a special prize on regional as well as on state level of the competition "Jugend forscht". Title of their work: Biopolymer, Lipidabsorber, Ion exchanger, anti microbial agent: The allrounder Chitosan.
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