Grand Challenges in Marine Biotechnology

Section 1: The Promise of Marine Biotechnology Contains general chapters collected from authorities in the different fields, aimed at seeing marine biotechnology projected in the 21th century, compiled with a foresight perspective in mind. Capital topics are mentioned such as Health, Food, Energy and Environment as launching ramps of the science for the next section.
Section 2: Latest Developments in Marine Biotechnology Research Contains chapters from author's current research topics, organized in sub-sections each corresponding to the Capital topics of the previous part containing one or more chapters on current science in marine biotechnology field. These texts are intended to report about advances and challenges directly from the labs around the world framing the results in the wide context of marine biotechnology.
Section 3: Economic Potential of Marine Biotechnology Includes material dedicated to social/political issues by scientific society representatives, single stakeholders from firms in the field, and other specific leading experts.
Section 4: Key Tools and Technologies Dedicated to technologies such as marine -omics, metabolic engineering and other powerful hyphenated spectroscopy technologies (micro-NMR, mass spectrometry, etc.) for natural products identification in resource management and ecological monitoring.
Section 5: Grand Projects in Marine Biotechnology Discusses the projects along with other issues including intellectual property rights and other aspects connected to the third section.