Biotechnology category: 1154 books
Summary & Study Guide - The Gene Machine
How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids - and the Kids We Have
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
The promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventions.
The must-read summary of “The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids — and the Kids We Have” by Bonnie Rochman.
This complete summary of Rochman’s book covers...
Summary & Study Guide - The Body Builders
Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Science Fiction Becomes Reality
The must-read summary of “The Body Builder: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human” by Adam Piore.
This complete summary of Adam Piore’s book explores the science which can be used to reverse engineer, rebuild, augment, and enhance the human...
Stem Cells
Scientific Facts and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Recent advances in the fields of medicine and technology have led to the development of stem cell therapy. A stem cell is a cell that has the potential to develop into many different types of cell in the body. It has the ability to divide and copy itself and at least one other specialized type of...
Cloning
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Should we clone extinct or endangered species? Are we justified in using stem cells to develop cures? When will we clone the first human? Ever since Dolly the sheep, questions like these have rarely been far from the public consciousness, and cloning is now poised to revolutionize medicine, healthcare,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Adult Stem Cells, second edition, takes a critical look at issues concerning the developmental or differentiation potential for a variety of tissue types and for specific adult stem cell types. Since the first edition appeared a decade ago, our understanding of adult stem cells, and more specifically...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 1995
PCR Strategies expands and updates the landmark volume PCR Protocols. It is a companion laboratory manual that provides a completely new set of up-to-date strategies and protocols for getting the most from PCR.
The editors have organized the book into four sections, focusing on principles,...
Dog, Inc.
How a Collection of Visionaries, Rebels, Eccentrics, and Their Pets Launched the Commercial Dog Cloning Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
What Stiff did for the dead and Fast Food Nation did for the burger, Dog, Inc. does for the stranger-than-fiction world of commercial dog cloning.
It all began with a pit bull named Booger. Former Miss Wyoming Bernann McKinney was so distraught over the death of her dog, whom she regarded as...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This book primarily focuses on microbial colonization, its role in plant growth and nutrient cycling, mycorrhizae, and providing an overview of phytospheric microorganisms in sustainable crop systems.
Despite the advances made in the study of plant-microbe synergism, the relation between microbes...
Academic Press Library in Biomedical Applications of Mobile and Wireless Communications: Wireless UWB Body Area Networks
Using the IEEE802.15.4-2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Wireless sensor and body area networks (WSN and WBAN respectively) have been seen as a future way to monitor humans’ psycho-physiological signs remotely. There are a number of standards that could be used for building WBAN sytems. However, wireless UWB networks based on IEEE 802.15.4a offer the...
Immune Responses to Biosurfaces
Mechanisms and Therapeutic Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The collection of chapters in this proceedings volume brings together research from academic and industry scientists and clinical development experts who are focused on contemporary and emerging aspects of improving treatments employing biosurfaces. Interactions between biomaterial implants, devices,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book argues that the sustainable management of resources requires a systematic approach that primarily involves the integration of green innovative biotechnological strategies and eco-engineering. It discusses how microbial community intelligence can be used for waste management and bio-remediation...
by Stefano Geuna, Isabelle Perroteau, Pierluigi Tos
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This issue of International Review of Neurobiology brings together cutting-edge research on tissue engineering of the peripheral nerve. It reviews current knowledge and understanding, provides a starting point for researchers and practitioners entering the field, and builds a platform for further...
Dinner at the New Gene Café
How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Biotech companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In the United States, the primary venue for this quiet revolution, the acreage of genetically modified crops has soared from zero to 70 million acres since 1996. More than half of America's processed grocery products-from...
Plenty of Room for Biology at the Bottom
An Introduction to Bionanotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
This expanded and updated edition of the 2007 version introduces readers from various backgrounds to the rapidly growing interface between biology and nanotechnology. It intellectually integrates concepts, applications, and outlooks from these major scientific fields and presents them to readers from...