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Eat your blue-greens?

Food supplements and drugs from algae

Algae are a successful group of photosynthetic organisms in aquatic environments. Humans have long used them in foodstuffs. Biotechnologist Tom Driver explains how they can now be exploited and manipulated to become key organisms for the twenty-first century

Green algae growing in a photobioreactor. The high surface area to volume ratio allows good light absorption for photosynthesis and leads to high productivity

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