Biotechnology category: 1154 books
by S. K. Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The concept of ‘biotech’ or ‘biotechnology’ encompasses a wide range of procedures (and history) for modifying living organisms according to human purposes — going back to domestication of animals, cultivation of plants, and “improvements” to these through breeding programs that employ...
by Pratima Bajpai
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
The book provides the most up-to-date information available on various biotechnological processes useful in the pulp and paper industry. The first edition was published in 2011, covering a specific biotechnological process or technique, discussing the advantages, limitations, and prospects of the...
Genentech
The Beginnings of Biotech
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate...
Frankenstein's Cat
Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Winner of 2014 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science Book
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
One of Nature's Summer Book Picks
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books
For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions,...
Me Medicine vs. We Medicine
Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Personalized healthcare—or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"—is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetically developed therapies in cancer care,...
Lively Capital
Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This edited volume is intended to help close this gap and provide the necessary backdrop for thinking strategically about biology in defense planning and policymaking.
This volume is about applications of the biological sciences, here called "biologically inspired innovations," to...
Yeast
Molecular and Cell Biology
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Finally, a stand-alone, all-inclusive textbook on yeast biology.
Based on the feedback resulting from his highly successful monograph, Horst Feldmann has totally rewritten he contents to produce a comprehensive, student-friendly textbook on the topic. The scope has been widened, with almost double...
Designs on Nature
Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Cellulolytic Enzyme Production and Enzymatic Hydrolysis for Second-Generation Bioethanol Production, by Mingyu Wang, Zhonghai Li, Xu Fang, Lushan Wang und Yinbo Qu Bioethanol from Lignocellulosic Biomass, by Xin-Qing Zhao, Li-Han Zi, Feng-Wu Bai, Hai-Long Lin, Xiao-Ming Hao, Guo-Jun Yue und Nancy...
Boar Reproduction
Fundamentals and New Biotechnological Trends
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Latent knowledge in the field of pig reproduction is vast but scattered, making it difficult to take in all information at a glance. Moreover, nascent branches in biotechnology cannot grow if deprived of roots. The book Boar Reproduction: Fundamentals and New Biotechnological Trends links the past,...
Vexing Nature?
On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Agricultural biotechnology refers to a diverse set of industrial techniques used to produce genetically modified foods. Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods manipulated at the molecular level to enhance their value to farmers and consumers. This book is a collection of essays on the ethical dimensions...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The latest edition in this continuing series includes the newest advances in the rapidly evolving field of animal cell culture, genetic manipulations for heterologous gene expression, cell line enhancements, improved bioreactor designs and separations, gene therapy manufacturing, tissue engineering,...
Yellow Biotechnology I
Insect Biotechnologie in Drug Discovery and Preclinical Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Utility of Insects for Studying Human Pathogens and Evaluating New Antimicrobial Agents, by Yan Wang, De-Dong Li, Yuan-Ying Jiang and Eleftherios Mylonakis. Galleria Mellonella as a Model Host to Study Gut Microbe Homeostasis and Brain Infection by the Human Pathogen Listeria Monocytogenes, by Krishnendu...