Our R&D Team
Research and Development forms an integral part of the Microcore vision and strategy. Our scientists and technicians in the R&D group develop new process, molecule, improved enzymes and proprietary technologies in order to maintain our competitive edge. Our R&D comprises specialists in molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, food chemistry and biotechnology and we works in close contact with the client.
Current Research Activities
One of our main objectives is to convert any process waste in to wealth. Microcore envisions in converting agricultural waste into high value products.Microcore has spent nearly two years time to screen large variety of agro wastes such as husk, hulls, bran, straw, pod, and leaf as inexpensive source of renewable cellulose and lignocelluloses biomass for the production of dietary fibers.The research has led to development of cost effective and economic process for the production of soluble and insoluble dietary fibers.
The developed process is a novel organic route to produce food grade dietary fibers.We have been actively involved in building an in house of dietary fiber database that would include information on soluble dietary fiber (SDF) and insoluble dietary fiber (IDF).Microcore has registered process patent with government of India patent office Application No.3280/CHE/2008 DIETARY FIBERS DERIVED FROM BENGAL GRAM HUSK AND PROCESS THEREFOR. We exploring suitable funding proposal to study the advantageous of Dietary fibers to reduces the risk of colon and rectal cancer, high cholesterol levels, diabetics and obesity.
Production of biofuels from agro-wastes to contribute towards the current global energy concerns. The process involves enzyme-chemical pretreatment using a combination of specialty enzymes followed by fermentation of cellulosic fibers. We have developed new process for the conversion of bagasse and egg effluent in to ethanol and we have registered process patent with government of India patent office Application No. 799/CHE/2010 METHODS OF USING ENZYMES AND CHEMICALS TO HYDROLYZE BAGGASE AND EGG ALBUMIN WASTE FOR THE COST EFFECTIVE PRODUCTION OF ETHANOL A pilot plant setup to build an assessment of the technology is foreseen in the future.
India ranks third in the production of global chicken egg and fifth in broiler production. Tamil Nadu ranks second in the India's egg and broiler production - 4400 million eggs and 250 million broilers per annum; of which nearly 80% of eggs and a considerable proportion of broilers are produced within the region surrounding Namakkal, Tamil Nadu. Poultry farming in the Namakkal area has grown significantly to reach 50 million layer stocks, with a production of 40 million eggs per day in about 550 poultry farms. This area solely constitutes to a daily turnover of INR 50 - 60 million from poultry industry (Tamil Nadu Veterinary And Animal Sciences University: (ICAR) veterinary college and research institute, Namakkal). Egg is fragile and needs to be handled with care; although modern facilities have minimized losses due to broken eggs during processing, it continues to exist during transport from poultry to processing industry. These broken eggs are discarded and add to clogging and bad odor generation and harbors Salmonella, we addressed this vulnerable environment issues and we have worked towards the conversion of broken egg waste in to wealth and we have standardized nearly 6 different processes to convert egg waste broth in to wealth. The process does not have any microbial hindrance. Our hard work gave us a break through and we have registered process patent with government of India patent office Application No 797/CHE/2010 RECOVERY OF ALBUMIN AND YOLK CONTENTS FROM WASTE OF RAW EGG PROCESSING at present we are open to help egg processors or poultry farms to adapt our ecofriendly, waste to wealth technology to convert egg waste in to protein and phospholipids rich products for animal feed.
Our understanding with ovalbumin chemistry helped us to invent novel process for the conversion of egg albumin in to crystalline gel, more specifically a polymerized hydrophilic water-swell able solid hydro gel, from egg albumin. We are keen to study the application of crystalline ovalbumin gel in to oral drug delivery and mammalian cell culture propagation. Our hard work gave us a break through and we have registered process patent with government of India patent office Application No. 798/CHE/2010 PROCESS FOR PREPARING WATER INSOLUBLE HYDRO-ALBUMIN GEL CRYSTALS FROM RAW EGG ALBUMIN AND APPLICATION AS INSULIN BINDING PROTEIN AND SHRIMP FEEDS
Development of a novel bioprocess for production of 4 ethoxy ethyl ether with strong pineapple aroma from non- lactose fermenting Lactobacilli sp is under progress. This is a unique approach to address the enormous demand for natural fruity aroma. Strain profiling and patent registration is under progress.
Our R&D team is Keen and carrying continues efforts to isolate novel oleaginous fungi for omega three and six poly unsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) production. With the world-wide problems of obesity, high cholesterol and cardio-vascular diseases, the use of PUFA as a supplement to saturated fatty acids has increased. We have discovered novel microbial source for omega six PUFA indication, strain profiling and Patent registration is under progress
Currently we have developed miniaturized screening methods to deduct phospholipase A2 producing microorganism and we are exploring the isolation of potent PLA2 producer from Indian soil.
Developed miniaturized screening methods to identify list of Lipase inhibitors produced from GRAS microorganism.