Molecular Biology category: 1516 books
Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins
Volume 42
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins comprises a comprehensive and critical review of significant developments at the biology and chemistry interface. Compiled by leading researchers in their subject, this volume incorporates current trends and emerging areas in topics such as magnetic resonance studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
This book highlights a new paradigm of translation control by regulatory nascent polypeptides, which is integrated into cellular regulatory systems. Translation lies in the hub of the central dogma of biology, in which the genetic information in the forms of 4-letter sentences is translated into 20-letter...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the novel concepts in stem cell heterogeneity, from pluripotent stem cells to human mesenchymal stem cells, adult and cancer stem cells of the thyroid, sarcoma, and more.
Thus, Stem Cell Heterogeneity - Novel Concepts starts from a timely update...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2019
This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the heterogeneity existing between different types of stem cells within the same tissue, for several types of cancers, e.g. glioblastoma stem cells. Recent developments have revealed completely different roles of distinct stem cells within the same...
by Nejat Duzgunes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Liposomes are cellular structures made up of lipid molecules, which are water insoluble organic molecules and the basis of biological membranes. Important as a cellular model in the study of basic biology, liposomes are also used in clinical applications such as drug delivery and virus studies. Liposomes...
Avoid Boring People
Lessons from a Life in Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out their academic careers.
In Avoid Boring People, Watson lays down a life’s wisdom for...
Once We All Had Gills
Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans are both suspicious of science and hostile to scientific ways of thinking. Noting that science has too...
Summary & Study Guide - A Crack in Creation
Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Power and Peril of Gene Editing
CRISPR/Cas9 Technology
The must-read summary of “A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution” by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg.
This complete summary of Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg’s book...
by Andreas Hübel, Thilo Schmelcher, Ulrich Storz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Patents protecting biotechnological invention are becoming ever more important. Because biotechnology has many differences with respect to other technologies, lessons learned in other fields of technology cannot simply be transferred to adopt a suitable strategy for dealing with biotechnology inventions.
In...
The Germ Files
The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life (and How to Protect Yourself from the Bad Ones)
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
SOME GERMS ARE OUT TO GET US. . . . But we shouldn’t let a delinquent, pathogenic minority taint our view of the other 99.9 per cent.
The microbes living on and inside us outnumber the cells in our bodies three to one. Many provide services on which our well-being, our moods, our very lives...
by Shuddha Anami
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Every one has a great fear of death. Death makes people melancholy and they sink into misery. Everyone has to witness death some point in time during his or her life. At such a time hundreds of questions regarding the true nature of death may arise in a person’s mind. When he does not find any answers,...
Sync
How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the earth; our hearts depend on the synchronous firing of ten...
Strange Glow
The Story of Radiation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety of nuclear...
by Ram J. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Cytogenetics plays an important role in understanding the chromosomal and genetic architecture of plant species. Plant Cytogenetics, Third Edition follows the tradition of its predecessors presenting theoretical and practical aspects of plant cytogenetics. Chapters describe correct handling of plant...