Life sciences: general issues

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Erstmals in der Geschichte besitzt der Mensch die Fähigkeit, die eigenen Gene zu verändern.

Erstmals in der Geschichte besitzt der Mensch die Fähigkeit, die eigenen Gene zu verändern.

This book covers a wide range of diverse immunoinformatics research topics, involving tools and databases of potential epitope prediction, HLA gene analysis, MHC characterizing, in silico vaccine design, mathematical modeling of host-pathogen interactions, and network analysis of immune system data.

Beginning in 1925, when at twenty-three she embarked on her first field work in Samoa, Mead sent family and friends these letters from the field to make a little more real for them the exotic worlds that absorbed her.

Sex and Cohabitation Among Early Humans: Anthropological and Genetic Evidence for Interbreeding Among Early Humans explores the available information regarding interbreeding among different ancestral human species.

'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move.

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Health and Disease provides the latest information Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), which are involved in numerous diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and schizophrenia, and are important potential translational targets for treatment of these diseases, as well as therapy for addiction.

The average reader is deluged continually with a quantity off acts in the field that we call genetics.

This book shows that evolutionary game theory can unravel how mutual cooperation, trust, and credit in a group emerge in organizations and institutions.

This new volume in the Reproductive Medicine for Clinicians series of the International Academy of Human Reproduction (IAHR) focuses on current hot topics in the field, their ethical and legal aspects and their impact on society.

The human brain is made up of billions of neurons that communicate with each other through chemical messengers, which are referred to as neuroactive substances.

This edited volume provides a review of remediation approaches utilizing aquatic and wetland macrophytes in the Tropics.

The seventh of 15 short atlases reimagining the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development.

This volume provides a collection of protocols from researchers in the statistical genomics field.

The seventh of 15 short atlases reimagining the classic 5-volume Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development.

This book draws a connection between ethics and research across social sciences, philosophy, medical sciences and legal sciences, and demonstrates that any research activity needs to be conducted by means of rules deriving from the field of ethics.

The book reviews clinical trial methodology as it pertains to drug development in psychiatry.

Most imperative environmental concerns are Cultural eutrophication pertaining to industrialization and urbanization which lead to proliferation of weeds in aquatic environs disturbing these ecosystems.

In this book the editors and authors provide a comprehensive overview on basic research and clinical aspects of hereditary breast and gastric tumors.

This book shows what role nature can play in a city and how this can make it a better place for people to live.

This book invites snorkelers and divers on an educational visit to the most important ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea.

This new volume in the Reproductive Medicine for Clinicians series of the International Academy of Human Reproduction (IAHR) focuses on current hot topics in the field, their ethical and legal aspects and their impact on society.

Das essential beschreibt verständlich die lebenswichtigen Aufgaben von Endothelzellen und Mikrozirkulation.

Biotechnology involves an interdisciplinary science that provides an interface between biological, molecular and cellular aspects of living organisms with broad technologies applicable in the fields of health, environment and materials.

The fourth edition of "e;Textbook of Microbiology and Immunology"e; is an extensively revised edition , a healthy mixture of the old and the new contents.

This book provides the first extensive examination and analysis of the use of the urbanscape during the disaster process, by connecting its elements throughout disaster phases: the pre-disaster phase, consisting of reduction in form of prevention and mitigation; the disaster event phase, consisting of the disaster impact followed by the disaster effects; and the post-disaster phase, consisting of the post-disaster recovery.

This updated volume reflects new and evolved techniques to study detection, profiling, and manipulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) in plants and animals.

This detailed collection explores a diverse range of topics related to neural repair and functional recovery following ischemic stroke.

An authoritative exploration of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life todayIt is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "e;nature,"e; or that is so slow that its ongoing impact is virtually nonexistent when viewed from the perspective of a single human lifetime.

This book provides an integrated view of Atlantic coastal Patagonian ecosystems, including the physical environment, biodiversity and the main ecological processes, together with their derived ecosystem services and anthropogenic impacts.

The book reports on the current state on HCI in biomedicine and health care, focusing on the role of human factors, patient safety well as methodological underpinnings of HCI theories and its application for biomedical informatics.

New ways of understanding the brain - its nature, its capacities, its function, and its dysfunction - hold great promise for human wellbeing.

This contributed volume presents an analysis of the current conservation status of major faunal groups in Mexico.

This book gives an overall analysis of the current knowledge status about structures, functions, utilization for German Baltic coast ecosystems.

This extensively revised and expanded new edition offers concepts, principles and applied information that relates to the wellbeing of reptiles.

This book aims to review the key areas of modern research in power engineering regarding environmental conservation, as well as the research and development of digital technologies in the energy sector.

This book presents a systemic view of the global environmental economy under the conditions of climate change from the positions of Sustainable Development Goals.

This book provides a critical analysis of the experiences of people with disabilities in Latin America.

Life must be understood as the result of evolution, and human life as the emergence of the species Sapiens from the genus Homo of the family of apes.

This biography of Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) places her life and work in its social, scientific and personal context.

This book is the fourth volume of the "e;Marine Algal Flora of China-Rhodophyta.

This book highlights the relevant and timely global change movement: green entrepreneurship.

This textbook provides an overview of applications of advanced nanomaterials, basic lab set up and requirements in for their synthesis, techniques and career scope of nanotechnology in industries and research.

This book helps the reader make use of the mathematical models of biological phenomena starting from the basics of programming and computer simulation.

This Element highlights the pervasive nature of ensemble encoding as a basic, inherent component of human perception.

This book provides scientific evidence to underline the notion that forests offer the most reliable water catchments in the natural environment.

Now in its second edition, this book brings multivariate statistics to graduate-level practitioners, making these analytical methods accessible without lengthy mathematical derivations.