Biotechnology category: 1154 books
Ending Aging
The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
MUST WE AGE?
A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity's greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own...
Biopunk
Solving Biotech's Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules."
The most disruptive force on the planet resides in DNA. Biotech...
The Edge of Medicine
The Technology That Will Change Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Experts agree that we are entering the Golden Age of Medicine, when our everyday experience of being ill and getting better will be more like science fiction than today's routine trip to the doctor.
Bill Hanson, director of the surgical intensive care unit at the University of Pennsylvania...
Chasing Captain America
How Advances in Science, Engineering, and Biotechnology Will Produce a Superhuman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Could we create a real-life superhero by changing human biology itself?
The form and function of the human body, once entirely delimited by nature, are now fluid concepts thanks to recent advances in biomedical science and engineering. Professor, author, and comic book enthusiast E. Paul Zehr...
Standardisation in Cell and Tissue Engineering
Methods and Protocols
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The increased use of biodegradable synthetic or natural scaffolds combined with cells and/or biological molecules, in order to create functional replacement tissue in a damaged tissue site, has led to the need for the development of ‘best practice’ methods in the area of tissue engineering to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This is the fourth updated and revised edition of a well-received book that emphasises on fungal diversity, plant productivity and sustainability. It contains new chapters written by leading experts in the field.
This book is an up-to-date overview of current progress in mycorrhiza and association...
Uncertain Peril
Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Life on earth is facing unprecedented challenges from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seeds is a less visible but no less fundamental threat to our survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their power to regenerate and adapt are essential to maintaining...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
I am very pleased to present this volume on engineering stem cells in Advances in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology. This volume stays abreast of recent developments in stem cell biology and the high expectations concerning the dev- opment of stem cell based regenerative therapies. Regenerative...
A Biotech Manager's Handbook
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
A biotech manager's handbook lays out - in a simple, straightforward manner - for the manager or would-be entrepreneur the basic principles of running a biotech company. Most managers in biotechnology companies are working in their first company or in their first managerial role. Their expertise and...
Responsible Innovation 1
Innovative Solutions for Global Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
This book addresses the methodological issues involved in responsible innovation and provides an overview of recent applications of multidisciplinary research. Responsible innovation involves research into the ethical and societal aspects of new technologies (e.g. ICT, nanotechnology, biotechnology...
Eating in the Dark
America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Most Americans eat genetically modified food on a daily basis, but few of us are aware we’re eating something that has been altered. Meanwhile, consumers abroad refuse to buy our engineered crops; their groceries are labeled so that everyone knows if the contents have been modified. What’s going...
Asian Biotech
Ethics and Communities of Fate
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell...
The GMO Deception
What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and Our Environment at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Seventy-five percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves-from soda to soup, crackers to condiments-contain genetically engineered ingredients. The long-term effects of these foods on human health and ecology are still unknown, and public concern has been steadily intensifying.
This new...
by Basanta Kumara Behera, Ajit Varma
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book describes how microbes can be used as effective and sustainable resources to meet the current challenge of finding suitable and economical solutions for biopharmaceuticals, enzymes, food additives, nutraceuticals, value added biochemicals and microbial fuels, and discusses various aspects...