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Dowling College Professors Develop Groundbreaking Experiment
That Shows Promise For Bioengineering Field
Research Article to be Published in Biotechnology Progress (Available Online)
OAKDALE, NY - Dowling College professors Dr. Vishal Shah and Dr. Fred Rispoli have invented a new groundbreaking experimental design that could have a huge impact in the field of bioengineering and biotechnology. Their article, A New Efficient Mixture Screening Design for Optimization of Media, is being published in the journal, Biotechnology Progress, and is available online and will be published in the July/August 2009 issue of the journal.
The new design aims at reducing the number of experiments that would be needed to screen a large number of ingredients that a scientist may think would help increase the yield of the product. Dr. Shah and Dr. Rispoli working at Dowling College are among the few scientists worldwide who are developing new methods in this area.
Dr. Rispoli states that as the study points out, "Most of the process development includes guess work on the behalf of scientists and engineers involved. This could result in developing a process that is not working at the maximum potential. An example could be a fungi making an antibiotic. Because of the need to reduce the number of experiments during the process development, a scientist would only look for few nutrients that he/she would think would lead to higher production of an antibiotic. Our design allows scientists to screen a larger pool of nutrients without compromising the information value and decreasing the number of experiments compared to many other designs."
This new innovative design of experiment would help not only the biotechnology industry but will also help industries and scientists in other scientific fields including toxicology, pharmacology, petroleum and food sciences and environmental sciences. "The design could be used by teachers in high schools and colleges to teach their students the concepts of statistics and process engineering. It is a very simple design requiring no advanced software and one can design this experiment within minutes," said Dr. Shah.
To view this new article, please visit: www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121373624/home
Photo: http://www.dowling.edu/mydowling/pics/drs.jpg
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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