Biotechnology category: 1154 books
Cellular Mechanotransduction
Diverse Perspectives from Molecules to Tissues
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
'Mechanotransduction' is the term for the ability, first described by 19th-century anatomist Julius Wolff, of living tissues to sense mechanical stress and respond by tissue remodeling. More recently, the scope of mechanotransduction has been expanded to include the sensation of stress, its translation...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Biomimetics, in general terms, aims at understanding biological principles and applying them for the development of man-made tools and technologies. This approach is particularly important for the purposeful design of passive as well as functional biomaterials that mimic physicochemical, mechanical...
Medical Devices
Surgical and Image-Guided Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Addressing the exploding interest in bioengineering for healthcare applications, this book provides readers with detailed yet easy-to-understand guidance on biomedical device engineering. Written by prominent physicians and engineers, Medical Devices: Surgical and Image-Guided Technologies is organized...
Chemistry of Bioconjugates
Synthesis, Characterization, and Biomedical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Explores bioconjugate properties and applications of polymers, dendrimers, lipids, nanoparticles, and nanotubes
Bioconjugation has enabled breakthroughs across many areas of industry and biomedicine. With its emphasis on synthesis, properties and applications, this book enables readers to understand...
Handbook of Natural Fibres
Processing and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Growing awareness of environmental issues has led to increasing demand for goods produced from natural products, including natural fibres. The two-volume Handbook of natural fibres is an indispensable tool in understanding the diverse properties and applications of these important materials. Volume...
Mycorrhizal Technology in Agriculture
From Genes to Bioproducts
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Arbuscular Mycorrhiza (AM) is the most common mycorrhizal type involved in agricultural systems, and the most widespread plant root symbiosis. The fungi involved (Glomales) are known to promote plant growth and health by acting as biofertilizers, bioprotectors and bioregulators. The main aim of this...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Michael Lebuhn, Stefan Weiß, Bernhard Munk, Georg M. Guebitz
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Tools for Biogas Process Analysis, Diagnosis and Control
Veronika Dollhofer, Sabine Marie Podmirseg, Tony Martin Callaghan, Gareth Wyn Griffith & Katerina Fliegerová
Anaerobic...
DNA Nanoscience
From Prebiotic Origins to Emerging Nanotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
DNA Nanoscience: From Prebiotic Origins to Emerging Nanotechnology melds two tales of DNA. One is a look at the first 35 years of DNA nanotechnology to better appreciate what lies ahead in this emerging field. The other story looks back 4 billion years to the possible origins of DNA which are shrouded...
Smart Materials for Tissue Engineering
Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
In the last couple of decades, research in the area of tissue engineering has witnessed tremendous progress. The focus has been on replacing or facilitating the regeneration of damaged or diseased cell, tissue or organs by applying a biomaterial support system, and a combination of cells and bioactive...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Systems Biology is the systematic study of the interactions between the components of a biological system and studies how these interactions give rise to the function and behavior of the living system. Through this, a life process is to be understood as a whole system rather than the collection of...
Essays in Medical Ethics
Plea for a Medicine of Prudence
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Modern medicine suggests omnipotence and an image of life as something that can be perfected at any time. Yet our view of things changes when disease throws us into an existential crisis. Then we seek human answers and feel misunderstood and abandoned in the system of modern medicine. Professor...
Next-Generation Genome Sequencing
Towards Personalized Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Written by leading experts from industry and academia, this first single comprehensive resource addresses recent developments in next generation DNA sequencing technology and their impact on genome research, drug discovery and health care. As such, it presents a detailed comparative analysis of commercially...
by Gerd Binnig, Ralf Huss, Günter Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
In the age of digitization our society is transformed into a new state. In particular, machine intelligence dramatically elevates our capability to create and digest information. Naturally, healthcare is also impacted by this trend and will even be more transformed into a informatic driven discipline...
Biomechanics
Optimization, Uncertainties and Reliability
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In this book, the authors present in detail several recent methodologies and algorithms that they developed during the last fifteen years. The deterministic methods account for uncertainties through empirical safety factors, which implies that the actual uncertainties in materials, geometry and loading...