Abstract: The invention relates to methods, uses, systems, arrays, engineered nucleotide sequences and vectors for inhibiting bacterial population growth or for altering the relative ratio of sub-populations of first and second bacteria in a mixed population of bacteria. The invention is particularly useful, for example, for treatment of microbes such as for environmental, medical, food and beverage use. The invention relates inter alia to methods of controlling microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) or biofouling of a substrate or fluid in an industrial or domestic system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 20, 2016
Date of Patent:
July 11, 2017
Assignee:
SNIPR TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Inventors:
Jasper Clube, Morten Sommer, Christian Grøndahl, Eric Van Der Helm, Ruben Vazquez-Uribe
Abstract: The invention relates to methods, uses, systems, arrays, engineered nucleotide sequences and vectors for inhibiting bacterial population growth or for altering the relative ratio of sub-populations of first and second bacteria in a mixed population of bacteria. The invention is particularly useful, for example, for treatment of microbes such as for environmental, medical, food and beverage use. The invention relates inter alia to methods of controlling microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) or biofouling of a substrate or fluid in an industrial or domestic system.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 20, 2016
Publication date:
November 17, 2016
Applicant:
SNIPR TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Inventors:
Jasper CLUBE, Morten SOMMER, Christian GRONDAHL, Eric VAN DER HELM, Ruben VAZQUEZ-URIBE