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Molecular Biology: Academic Cell Update Edition

by David P. Clark

Molecular Biology

Biotechnology Demystified

by Sharon Walker

This self-teaching guide explains the basic concepts and fundamentals in all the major subtopics of biotechnology. The content advances logically from the basics of molecular and cellular biology to more complex...

Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

by George M. Church & Ed Regis

Everyone has heard of genetic engineering: we eat engineered foods, we take drugs made in engineered bacteria and yeast, and someday soon may drive our cars on fuel produced by engineered microorganisms. Regenesis...

Bioinformatics for Dummies

by Jean-Michel , Ph. D. Claverie & Cedric , Ph.D. Notredame

Were you always curious about biology but were afraid to sit through long hours of dense reading? Did you like the subject when you were in high school but had other plans after you graduated? Now you can explore...

Advances in Optical Imaging for Clinical Medicine

by Nicusor Iftimia, William R. Brugge & Daniel X. Hammer

This book provides students, teachers, researchers and clinicians with a strong and established source of information on advanced optical technologies that show real promise of being translated to clinical use....

Advanced Biomedical Image Analysis

by Mark Haidekker

A comprehensive reference of cutting-edge advanced techniques for quantitative image processing and analysis

Medical diagnostics and intervention, and biomedical research rely progressively on imaging techniques,...

Biotransformation and Metabolite Elucidation of Xenobiotics: Characterization and Identification

by Ala F. Nassar

The goal of this book is to improve the readers' knowledge of metabolite elucidation in drug metabolism by exposing them to in depth coverage of the biotransformation of xenobiotics, strategies for identifying...

Organelle-Specific Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

by Volkmar Weissig & Gerard G. D'Souza

This book introduces and discusses the latest in biomedical research--Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology applied at the sub-cellular level.

Antigen Retrieval Immunohistochemistry Based Research and Diagnostics

by Shan-Rong Shi & Clive R. Taylor

The most complete, up-to-date reference on antigen retrieval and immunohistochemistry

An antigen is a substance that prompts the generation of antibodies and can cause an immune response. The antigen retrieval...

Gene Discovery for Disease Models

by W. Gu

This book provides readers with new paradigms on the mutation discovery in the post-genome era. The completion of human and other genome sequencing, along with other new technologies, such as mutation analysis...

How to Defeat Your Own Clone: And Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution

by Kyle Kurpinski

Send in the clones! On second thought, maybe not.

CAN IT READ MY MIND?

WILL IT BE EVIL?

HOW DO I STOP IT?

Find out the answers to these and other burning questions in this funny, informative, and ingenious book...

Beyond Biotechnology

by Craig Holdrege

The Human Genome Project announced in 2003 that it had successfully mapped the human DNA. Scientists, politicians, theologians, and pundits speculated what would follow. Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise...

Advances in Applied Microbiology

by Allen I. Laskin, Geoffrey M. Gadd & Sima Sariaslani

Published since 1959, Advances in Applied Microbiology continues to be one of the most widely read and authoritative review sources in microbiology.

The series contains comprehensive reviews of the most current...

Dog, Inc.: How a Collection of Visionaries, Rebels, Eccentrics, and Their Pets Launched the Commercial Dog Cloning Industry

by John Woestendiek

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...

Your Life, Uploaded: The Digital Way to Better Memory, Health, and Productivity

by Gordon Bell & Jim Gemmell

"A marvelous job of exploring first hand the implications of storing our entire lives digitally."

-Guy L. Tribble, Apple, Inc.

Tech luminary, Gordon Bell, and Jim Gemmell unveil a guide to the next digital...

The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution

by David Stipp

Living longer is closer than we think.

Even before the first person set off to find the Fountain of Youth, we were searching for a way to live longer. But promises of life extension have long reeked of...

Biosystems Engineering

by Ahindra Nag

Maximize productivity while minimizing environmental impactDevelop sustainable products, energy sources, and processes using the concepts and methods contained in this interdisciplinary resource. Biosystems...

Principles of Cellular Engineering: Understanding the Biomolecular Interface

by Michael R. King

This comprehensive work discusses novel biomolecular surfaces that have been engineered to either control or measure cell function at the atomic, molecular, and cellular levels. Each chapter presents real results,...

Bioinformatics: Managing Scientific Data

by Zoé|Critchlow, Terence Lacroix

Life science data integration and interoperability is one of the most challenging problems facing bioinformatics today. In the current age of the life sciences, investigators have to interpret many types of...

Principles of Tissue Engineering

by Robert Lanza, Robert Langer & Joseph P. Vacanti

The opportunity that tissue engineering provides for medicine is extraordinary. In the United States alone, over half-a-trillion dollars are spent each year to care for patients who suffer from tissue loss or...