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Mix gases to create and control hypoxic environments

Mix gases to create and control hypoxic environments
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University of Maryland Baltimore 0 ANAEROBIC MICROBES 0 MICRO-FLOW 0 HYPOXIC ATMOSPHERE A SOLID BUSINESS CASE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE “UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE “ TARGET OF THE PROJECT: Growing Strictly Anaerobic Microbes Under Microaerobic Conditions DEPARTMENT: University of Maryland Baltimore HEAD OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT: C. S. Raman ROLE OF MCQ INSTRUMENTS: To create and control, specific hypoxic environments. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE HEAD OF THE PROJECT Opened in 1807, the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is Maryland's public health, law, and human services university, dedicated to excellence in education, research, clinical care, and public service. The University of Maryland BioPark, Baltimore's biggest biotechnology cluster, fuels the commercialization of new drugs, treatments, and devices, giving 1,000 scientists and entrepreneurs the space to create and collaborate.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE APPLICATION AND THE TARGET Very little is known about how microbes harvest energy for long term survival in their native niches. Laboratory-based assessments of extreme energy stress in organisms, such as methane producing Archaea, are unimpressive when compared to deep-sea sediment microbes, which support cellular respiration rates of 1 e¯ cell-1 sec-1. Surprisingly, recent studies have shown that oxygen (O2) penetrates up to 75 m below the sea oor, suggesting that achieving anaerobiosis in the biosphere is rather diﬃcult. That is, even the “strict” anaerobes cannot...

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