Biotechnology category: 1154 books
Adult and Pluripotent Stem Cells
Potential for Regenerative Medicine of the Cardiovascular System
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
There is hardly an area of research developing so quickly and raising so many promises as stem cell research. Adult, embryonic and recently available induced pluripotent stem cells not only foster our understanding of differentiation of endo-, ecto- and mesodermal lineages to all organs of the body,...
Plant-Plant Allelopathic Interactions II
Laboratory Bioassays for Water-Soluble Compounds with an Emphasis on Phenolic Acids
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
This volume presents detailed descriptions and analyses of the underlying features, issues and suppositions associated with seed and seedling laboratory bioassays presented in a previous volume. It is, however, broader in scope and substance in that the information provided is relevant to all water-soluble...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Agro-industrial wastes are end-products emerging after industrial processing operations and also from their treatment and disposal e.g. solid fruit wastes and sludge. The agro-industrial wastes are often present in multiphase and comprise multicomponent. Nevertheless, these wastes are a goldmine as...
Managing Biogas Plants
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This practical manual provides basic theoretical knowledge about fermentative processes, biochemical laboratory techniques, and an arsenal of practical tricks, recipes, do’s, and don’ts for the biogas plant manager. It explains why some popular tests and techniques are unreliable, how to optimize...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book presents the latest findings on amino acid fermentation and reviews the 50-year history of their development. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which presents a review of amino acid fermentation, past and present. The second part highlights selected examples of amino acid...
His Brother's Keeper
One Family's Journey to the Edge of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they...
by Volkmar Weissig, Gerard G. D'Souza
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This book introduces and discusses the latest in biomedical research--Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology applied at the sub-cellular level.
Bioanalytics
Analytical Methods and Concepts in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Analytical methods are the essential enabling tools of the modern biosciences. This book presents a comprehensive introduction into these analytical methods, including their physical and chemical backgrounds, as well as a discussion of the strengths and weakness of each method. It covers all major...
Biosystems Engineering II
Linking Cellular Networks and Bioprocesses
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
-Morphology of Filamentous Fungi: Linking Cellular Biology to Process Engineering Using Aspergillus niger, By Rainer Krull, Christiana Cordes, Harald Horn, Ingo Kampen, Arno Kwade, Thomas R. Neu, and Bernd Nörtemann; -Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Modeling: Lifelines of Microorganisms in Bioreactors...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 'developing new scientific approaches to detecting, understanding, predicting and preventing adverse events' was a critical path to the future of drug safety. This book brings together a collection of state-of-the-art...
by Clive R Wood
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Monoclonal antibodies have become important treatments for cancer, inflammation and a wide range of other diseases, representing an increasing share of the most successful pharmaceutical markets. The technologies to discover these drugs have been developed by select centers of excellence in industry...
Therapeutic Antibody Engineering
Current and Future Advances Driving the Strongest Growth Area in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
The field of antibody engineering has become a vital and integral part of making new, improved next generation therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, of which there are currently more than 300 in clinical trials across several therapeutic areas. Therapeutic antibody engineering examines all aspects of...
Emerging Cancer Therapy
Microbial Approaches and Biotechnological Tools
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Explores current and emerging applications of microbes as cancer-fighting agents
Today, treatment options for cancer patients typically include surgery, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy. While these therapies have saved lives and reduced pain and suffering, cancer still takes...
ADME and Translational Pharmacokinetics / Pharmacodynamics of Therapeutic Proteins
Applications in Drug Discovery and Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
With an emphasis on the fundamental and practical aspects of ADME for therapeutic proteins, this book helps readers strategize, plan and implement translational research for biologic drugs.
• Details cutting-edge ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) and PKPD (pharmacokinetic...