Developmental biology

This book provides first-hand accounts of the many career opportunities open to graduates and postgraduates in the sciences and engineering beyond academic research.

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO ARW on 'Biological Pattern Formation' held at Merton College, University of Oxford, on 27-31 August, 1992.

Prominent intellectuals and public figures explore the dynamics of development, offering varying perspectives from a range of fields.

Animal Models of Disease, Part A, Volume 185 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including New mouse model to study aneurysm development, Mouse Model of Secondary Cystic Echinococcosis, Modelling childhood cancer in Drosophila, Analysis of immunohistomorphological changes in the colonic mucosa in a high-saturated fat and high-cholesterol fed streptozotocin/nicotinamide diabetic rat model, Establishment of an orthotopic Glioblastoma mouse model for preclinical studies, Lateral Fluid Percussion Injury as a Model for Traumatic Brain Injury, Ovarian and colorectal peritoneal carcinomatosis in mouse models, and more.

Plant growth is of great economical and intellectual interest.

In 2016 Current Topics in Developmental Biology (CTDB) will celebrate its 50th or "e;golden anniversary.

The evolution of segmentation is one of the central questions in evolutionary developmental biology.

In this volume, the ninth of the series, treatments are offered for 52 families containing 432 genera belonging to 13 eudicot orders, many of which have recently been newly designed; four families remain unassigned to order.

Cellular Senescence and Aging, Volume 181 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as assessing polyglutamine tract aggregation in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, Generation of glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor (gdnf) morphants in zebrafish larvae by cerebroventricular microinjection of vivo morpholino, Methods for detection of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in senescent cells, Assessment of cell cycle progression and mitotic slippage by videomicroscopy, The original colorimetric method to detect cellular senescence, and more.

This book provides everything from basic knowledge to the recent understandings of avian reproductive physiology, covering many unique aspects.

This first of 15 short atlases reimagines the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development.

The aim of this book is to cover the domain of craniofacial surgery focusing on neurological and neurosurgical issues.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the use of non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPS) in clinical practice.

This thoroughly revised second edition is an up-to-date overview of the current knowledge of Notch and Notch signaling in embryology and cancer.

Transcriptional Gene Regulation in Health and Disease, Volume 335, the latest release in the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology reviews and details current advances in cell and molecular biology.

Recent advances in stem cell biology, nanotechnology and gene therapy have opened new avenues for therapeutics.

Communication in Development presents the proceedings of the 28th Symposium of the Society for Developmental Biology, held in Boulder, Colorado, on June 16-18, 1969.

This fourth of 15 short atlases reimagines the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development.

DNA Damage and Chromosomal Instability, Volume 182 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, presents interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Induction of chromosome-specific micronuclei and chromothripsis by centromere inactivation, Generation of aneuploid cells and assessment of their ability to survive in presence of chemotherapeutic agents, Genetic reporters to detect and quantify homologous recombination in yeast, Mapping histone variant genomic distribution: exploiting SNAP- Tag labelling to follow the dynamics of incorporation of H3 variants, Enrichment of DNA replication intermediates by EdU pull down, Nascent DNA sequencing and its diverse applications in genome integrity research, and much more.

Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development.

This textbook introduces readers to the scientific basics of cardiovascular medicine and biology.

This volume looks at the liver's epithelial cells-hepatocytes and cholangiocytes-and their progenitors.

This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with many new and updated chapters discussing the latest techniques used to investigate cell wall biochemistry, biomechanical properties, chemistry, and biology.

Inter-Organellar Ca2+ Signaling in Health and Disease - Part A, Volume 362, the latest release in the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters.

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche focuses on an individual organ, looking at the stem cells in the organ itself (if they exist), their niches, and how to use them alongside relevant methods and protocols.

This book is aimed to summarise the key aspects of the role of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in breast cancer, with special attention to their contribution to tumour progression and establishment of metastatic disease.

Being sessiles like autotrophic plants and heterotrophics as animals, fungi are fascinating eukaryotes.

Plant tissue culture (PTC) is basic to all plant biotechnologies and is an exciting area of basic and applied sciences with considerable scope for further research.

Molecular and Cellular Changes in the Cancer Cell,the latest volume in the Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science series, includes a comprehensive summary of the evidence accumulated thus far on the molecular and cellular regulation of the various adaptations taking place in response to exercise.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the heterogeneity existing between different types of stem cells within the same tissue.

This book aims to deliver the most up-to-date protocols in using epiblast stem cells (EpiSC) to answer critical questions on mammalian development.

This book highlights recent developments of organic and inorganic nanomedicine that play a major role in anti-angiogenic cancer therapy.

Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy V, Volume 187 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on timely topics, including Orthotopic brain tumor models derived from glioblastoma stem-like cells, RNA sequencing in hematopoietic stem cells, Generation of inducible pluripotent stem cells from human dermal fibroblasts, In vitro preparation of dental pulp stem cell grafts combined with biocompatible scaffolds for tissue engineering, Gene expression knockdown in chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells, Identification and isolation of slow-cycling GSCs, Assessment of CD133, EpCAM, and much more.

A newly revised edition of the standard reference for the field today updated with new terms, major discoveries, significant scientists, and illustrations Developmental biology is the study of the mechanisms of development, differentiation, and growth in animals and plants at the molecular, cellular, and genetic levels.

Many exciting discoveries in recent decades have contributed new knowledge to our understanding of the mechanisms that regulate various stages of plant growth and development.

This book aims to comprehensively review the current cell-based strategies under investigation to achieve the regeneration of human hair follicles.

At the present time, the laboratory mouse has become a central tool for skeletal studies, mainly because of the extensive use of genetic manipulations in this species.

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.

Expansion Microscopy for Cell Biology, Volume 161 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, compiles recent developments in expansion microscopy techniques (Pro-ExM, U-ExM, Ex-STED, X10, Ex-dSTORM, etc.

First published in 1939 (second impression in 1950), this book provides an account of the changes in, and main principles of, genetics at that time.

Volume 109 of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers mouse models of the nuclear envelopathies and related diseases, with contributions from an international board of authors.

Gives an account of the morphologies of vertebrate respiratory organs and attempts to explicate the basis of the common and different structural and functional designs and stratagems that have evolved for acquisition of molecular oxygen.

This topical volume in the respected Encyclopedia series is the first in many years to bring together all important aspects of developmental biology in one source, from morphogenesis and organogenesis, via epigenetic regulation of gene expression to evolutionary developmental biology.

This comprehensive guide to potato production systems management contains 20 chapters and more than 350 color photographs.

This book reviews all important aspects of plant genome editing to shed new light on these genome editing technologies together in crop improvement and sustainable agriculture.

Molecular Biology of Aging, the latest volume in the Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science series, focuses on placental development and disease.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to various types of perinatal stem cells.

It is pointed out that cancer stem cell is a cell type within a tumor that possesses the capacity of cell-renewal and can give rise to the heterogeneous lineages of cancer cells that comprise the tumor.

There is hardly an area of research developing so quickly and raising so many promises as stem cell research.