Genetics (non-medical)

Novel molecular techniques, such as next-generation sequencing, are used to measure gene expression after exposure to a certain stimulus.

Translational Systems Medicine and Oral Disease bridges the gap between discovery science and clinical oral medicine, providing opportunities for both the scientific and clinical communities to understand how to apply recent findings in cell biology, genomic profiling, and systems medicine to favorably impact the diagnosis, treatment and management of oral diseases.

Death, for bacteria, is not inevitable.

Epigenetics is a term in biology referring to heritable traits that do not involve changes in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism.

This book presents recent advancements, challenges, and clinical implications of molecular biomarkers in various cancers.

This volume provides methods used to investigate histone methyltransferase function.

This book is the first comprehensive compilation of deliberations on whole genome sequencing of sesame including genome assembly, annotation, structure and synteny analysis, and sequencing of its chloroplast genome and also its wild species.

In this unique amalgam of neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary psychology, Ryan argues that leftists and rightists are biologically distinct versions of the human species that came into being at different moments in human evolution.

For decades, Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics has served as the ultimate resource for clinicians integrating genetics into medical practice.

Written by prominent and international researchers directly involved in the area of polymeric vectors for gene delivery, this is the first book to specifically address polymeric gene delivery systems.

This book pulls together the full range of cell culture, biochemical, microscopic, and genetic techniques to study the early mammalian embryo.

This detailed volume explores rice molecular biology, genetic engineering, and genome editing technologies.

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition, assists judges in managing cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence by describing the basic tenets of key scientific fields from which legal evidence is typically derived and by providing examples of cases in which that evidence has been used.

This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with new and updated chapters that highlight the latest methods and approaches for the manipulation of RNA viruses.

Currently, machine learning is playing a pivotal role in the progress of genomics.

Life is definitively purposive and creative.

Since their discovery in 1869, the dictyostelids have attracted the attention of scientists in a wide variety of fields.

Genetically Engineered Plants as a Source of Vaccines Against Wide Spread Diseases: An Integrated View provides an integrated outlook of the disciplines involved in the development of plant-based vaccines as well as an updated compilation of the successful developments in the field.

Insects are seldom mentioned in discussions surrounding human history, yet they have dramatically impacted today's societies.

Farmers have developed a range of agricultural practices to sustainably use and maintain a wide diversity of crop species in many parts of the world.

It is unlikely that the established genomes of present day organisms remain stable forever.

This book provides in-depth insights into the biology, taxonomy, genetics, physiology and biotechnological applications of Actinobacteria.

Progress and Challenges in Precision Medicine presents an insightful overview to the myriad factors of personalized and precision medicine.

This book reviews various aspects of papaya genomics, including existing genetic and genomic resources, recent progress on structural and functional genomics, and their applications in papaya improvement.

This volume provides state-of-the-art methods and protocols from researchers in the field of metabolism.

This book covers the many ways humans benefit from interactions with other living species.

Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences.

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.

The ability to successfully clone genes underlies the majority of our knowledge in molecular and cellular biology.

This textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students discusses advancements in forensic DNA analysis since early texts were published.

Now in its second edition, Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation is the most comprehensive resource for DNA casework available today.

The molecular mechanisms and protein species associated with the mineralization of mature dental enamel are active areas of research.

Dragonflies are among the most familiar and popular of all insects, deeply embedded in human cultural history.

First published in 1957, this essential classic work bridged the gap between analytical and theoretical biology, thus setting the insights of the former in a context which more sensitively reflects the ambiguities surrounding many of its core concepts and objectives.

Since the advent of cDNA microarrays, oligonucleotide array technology, and gene chip analysis, genomics has revolutionized the entire field of biomedical research.

Recent progress in high-throughput technologies and genome wide transcriptome studies have lead to a significant scientific milestone of discovering non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) which spans through a major portion of the genome.

How the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution, focusing on the Human Genome Project.

Specific complexes of protein and RNA carry out many essential biological functions, including RNA processing, RNA turnover, and RNA folding, as well as the translation of genetic information from mRNA into protein sequences.

Since it first became known to European scientists and naturalists in 1798, the platypus has been the subject of controversy, interest and absolute wonder.

This monograph introduces current genome editing technologies-clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs)-and provides an assessment of the risk of misuse of these technologies based on the following parameters: accessibility, ease of misuse, magnitude of potential harm, and imminence of potential misuse.

Ultimate success in exploiting the genetic capabilities of plants to grow in nutrient-stressed environments of the semi-arid tropics (SAT) requires a holistic view of food systems to ensure that genetic selections for improved yields on nutrient-poor soils will actually be adopted by farmers.

The endometrium goes through cyclical changes under the influence of hormones, and immune effectors in the endometrium change their populations cyclically as well.

Soil salinity is a key abiotic-stress and poses serious threats to crop yields and quality of produce.

When Crime and Personality was first published in 1964, J.

A short, readable 2003 textbook that is about the philosophical, social and political aspects of biology.

Student-focused, robust teaching package, with a strong illustration programme, now including references to software and databases and two new chapters.

Containing a comprehensive collection of convenient and quantitative methods for studying centrosomes, spindle pole bodies and related organelles, this text is a valuable resource for researchers and others interested in studying the role of these organelles in cell replication.

Advances in Genetics

Many common diseases are partly attributable to the genes which an individual inherits.

The chemical study of insects has been growing for four decades, and with it an interest in how insects make their pheromones, hormones, defensive secretions, venoms, pigments and surface coverings.