Algae – a micro plant, is regarded as an important primary producers and early producer of oxygen by the food producing process known as photosynthesis and it is much efficient and promising biotechnological tool and hence symbolizing the sense of pride and modernization for more than 75% countries of the world.

Algae can be defined as a group of very simple Chlorophyll (converts sun light into food) containing photosynthetic organisms composed of one cell (building blocks), or grouped together in colonies, or as organisms with many cells, sometimes collaborating together as simple tissues.

The utilization of algae dates back to 2,500 years in China whereas in Europe algal utilization is 500 years old. Previously algae were mainly considered for their high protein content as well as carbohydrate, amino acids, minerals and vitamin, but now algae is being utilized as a favorite feed for the rearing of commercially important animals (fish, prawn, poultry, cattle etc), as an important ingredient of medicine because of their stabilizing and emulsifying properties .

Due to high market demand, algal cultivation at commercial scale has emerged as a modern technology and this technology has become an important part of economical strategy for several developed nations like U.S.A., U.K., Germany, Japan, Mexico, Israel and several developing countries like China, Malaysia, Taiwan and India. Hash BioTech Labs is one of the leading algal biotech entity in the world, who have understood the importance of algae to mankind and explored their technology in order to meet the demand.

 Hash BioTech Lab’s Research & Development division has been able to figure out the biogenic compounds produced from alga for example Dunaliella, Chlorella, Spirulina, Haematococcus, Porphyridium, Porphyra dioloca, Porphyra purpurea, have proven their potentials as a therapeutic agent, as antibiotic, antiviral, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, hypocholesterolemic enzymes inhibitory activities. Algae because of their possible use in mariculture, food, feed, fuel, cosmetics, pharmaceutical probes, natural colorants, antioxidants, phycobilin pigments (phycoerythrin and phycocyanin) having colouring and antioxidants properties due to which phycobilins are successfully used as a fluorescent dyes in flow cytometery and in immunological assays. Algae are also known to possess high amount of lipids and a high proportion long chain unsaturated fatty acids like omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid and arachidonic acids which are of human interest makes them a very efficient tool of modern biotechnology. Research scientists at Hash BioTech Labs are extensively engaged with improvement of various algal strains, production of various fluorescent biomarkers from algae and development of various algal formulations.

The role of N2- fixing cyanobacteria in maintenance of the fertility of paddy fields has already been well substantiated and documented all over the world. Regular photosynthetic ability of algae minimizes the earth temperature by the evolution oxygen and reduces the concentration of carbon dioxide. Algae has also been reported to secrete compounds that combines with water vapors forms the clouds which acts as an excellent agent to reduce global warming.

Algal blooms regulate the global warming by the production of sulfite that is about 20-50 million tons from the oceans to the atmosphere each year. This sulphite not only has great potential to reduce global warming but also regulates the acid rain.

Some algal species Spirulina platensis, Nostoc linckia, Nostoc rivularis and Aulosira fertilisima shows metal binding tendency against heavy metals. In several experiments it has been proved that concentration of heavy metal from the polluted sites have been reduced by bio mineralization and by a process that is often termed as a response mechanism to toxicity, so alga are not only of industrially important because of their biotechnological benefits but also an eco friendly tool.

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