Biochemistry

Turmeric belongs to the family Zingiberaceae and is a yellow spice of high economic importance due to its medicinal value.

As analysis, in terms of detection limits and technological innovation, in chemical and biological fields has developed so computational techniques have advanced enabling greater understanding of the data.

Carotenoids are found in some food plants, flowers and animals, in free form and also esterified with fatty acids.

A precise analysis of biogenic amines is important as an indicator of food freshness or spoilage that can cause serious toxicity.

Electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) is a powerful and versatile analytical technique, which is widely applied for biosensing and successfully commercialized in the healthcare diagnostic market.

The sequencing of the human genome and subsequent elucidation of the molecular pathways that are important in the pathology of disease have provided unprecedented opportunities for the development of new therapeutics.

Kinase inhibition remains an area of significant interest, and growing importance, across academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

As humans evolved from primordial organisms they lost the capacity to make certain essential molecules.

Aerobic organisms have evolved to utilise the intrinsic oxidising power of oxygen from the atmosphere.

Sight loss and blindness is a very prevalent cause of disability.

Oncogenic transcription factors are an increasingly important target for anticancer therapies.

Optogenetic tools have allowed significant advances in the understanding of biological problems, particularly in the neurosciences field.

Synthetic chemistry plays a central role in many areas of chemical biology; utilising recent case studies, the goal of Chemical and Biological Synthesis is to highlight the full impact that the preparation of novel reagents can have in chemical biology.

Paramagnetic NMR is a growing technique that represents an increasingly important tool for the investigation of biomolecules.

The formation of disulphide bonds is probably the most influential modification of proteins.

Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has become a very useful analytical technique for the profiling of highly polar and charged metabolites in biological samples.

Protein crystallography has become vital to further understanding the structure and function of many complex biological systems.

Significant progress has been made in recent years in quenched-phosphorescence oxygen sensing, particularly in the materials and applications of this detection technology that are open to commercialization, like uses in brain imaging and food packaging.

The synergy between synthetic biology and biocatalysis is emerging as an important trend for future sustainable processes.

Polyphenols and carotenoids are abundant in fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and beverages, such as tea, cocoa and wine providing health-related benefits and antioxidant properties.

There have been remarkable advances towards discovering agents that exhibit selectivity and sequence-specificity for DNA, as well as understanding the interactions that underlie its propensity to bind molecules.

Hydrogen could be the fuel of the future.

Synthetic biology combines science and engineering in order to design, build and test novel biological functions and systems.

The identification and quantification of material present and collected at a crime scene are critical requirements in investigative analyses.

Molecular imaging of drugs or drug carriers is a valuable tool that can provide important information on spatiotemporal distribution of drugs, allowing improved drug distribution at target sites.

The understanding of the structure and function of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates remains vital in many fields, notably in medicine and molecular biology.

Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins comprises a comprehensive and critical review of significant developments at the biology and chemistry interface.

Cyclic peptides are increasingly employed as chemical tools in biology and drug discovery.

Sight loss and blindness is a very prevalent cause of disability.

This book describes the events of primary energy transduction in life processes.

Concerns about the adverse health effects of chemicals and radiation present in the environment and at workplaces have created the need for better detection systems to assess their potential to cause DNA damage in humans and other organisms across ecosystems.

Mass spectrometry is one of the most widespread technologies in chemistry and has been increasingly used in biology with the rise of omics sciences.

Significant progress has been made in recent years in quenched-phosphorescence oxygen sensing, particularly in the materials and applications of this detection technology that are open to commercialization, like uses in brain imaging and food packaging.

A rise in the number of young and old patients suffering from a stroke or traumatic brain injury has led to the need for better drug development and treatment, as well as diagnosis and prevention of ischemic stroke and traumatic brain injury.

Optogenetic tools have allowed significant advances in the understanding of biological problems, particularly in the neurosciences field.

The formation of disulphide bonds is probably the most influential modification of proteins.

Polyphenols and carotenoids are abundant in fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and beverages, such as tea, cocoa and wine providing health-related benefits and antioxidant properties.

Kinase inhibition remains an area of significant interest, and growing importance, across academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

In-cell NMR spectroscopy is a relatively new field.

There have been remarkable advances towards discovering agents that exhibit selectivity and sequence-specificity for DNA, as well as understanding the interactions that underlie its propensity to bind molecules.

Aerobic organisms have evolved to utilise the intrinsic oxidising power of oxygen from the atmosphere.

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) represent one of the most promising and exciting areas of anticancer drug discovery.

Biophysical techniques are used in many key stages of the drug discovery process including in screening for new receptor ligands, in characterising drug mechanisms, and in validating data from biochemical and cellular assays.

Gas molecules such as O2, NO, CO and ethylene are present in the environment and are endogenously (enzymatically) produced to act as signalling molecules in biological systems, including the regulation of metabolic networks, chemotaxis, circadian rhythms, mammalian hypoxia responses, and plant ethylene responses by transcriptional, translational, or post translational control.

Synthetic chemistry plays a central role in many areas of chemical biology; utilising recent case studies, the goal of Chemical and Biological Synthesis is to highlight the full impact that the preparation of novel reagents can have in chemical biology.

Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has become a very useful analytical technique for the profiling of highly polar and charged metabolites in biological samples.

Interest in anthocyanins has increased in the past few years, due to their potential health-promoting properties as dietary antioxidants.

For human health, leishmaniasis is among the most important protozoan diseases, superseded only by malaria.

The rapid development of efficient computational tools has allowed researchers to tackle biological problems and to predict, analyse and monitor, at an atomic level, molecular recognition processes.

A rise in the number of young and old patients suffering from a stroke or traumatic brain injury has led to the need for better drug development and treatment, as well as diagnosis and prevention of ischemic stroke and traumatic brain injury.