Bio-plastic is Eco-friendly option of the chemically synthesized plastic. Due to the environmental and health hazards the demand for bio degradable plastic is increasing day by day. This book deals with the search for the possible producers of bio-plastic from paint industry waste water. It was a great success that we have found good producers from our targeted site. The isolates were identified and the methods have been explained in detail. The quantitative extraction and analysis of PHB (a type of PHAs) from the bacterial isolates of paint industry effluent was performed using various...

Cancer is one of the fatal diseases occurring throughout the world in which the body cells become abnormal, divides continuously and form tumors. Various treatments are under use for cancer like chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery. All of the ways have some advantages, limitations and side effects. So there is a need to find some potent but safe therapeutic agent to treat cancers. L-Asparaginase is found to be a novel therapeutic agent against blood cancer i.e. leukemia. It catalyzes deamidation of L-asparagine to L-aspartate and ammonia (L-asparagine amidohydrolase; E.C. 3.5.1.1)....