Microbiology (non-medical)

It is generally assumed that microorganisms synthesize, release, detect and respond to small signaling hormone-like molecules.

Advances in technological and analytical methods have fostered rapid growth of systems biology and synthetic biology.

Predictive microbiology is a recent area within food microbiology, which studies the responses of microorganisms in foods to environmental factors (e.

Professor Fox's multi-volume Advanced Dairy Chemistry set was first published in four volumes in the early 1980s.

Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity IX

Astroviruses were first identified in the feces of children in 1975.

This book focuses on the adoption of medical technology in the developing world, and the role that can be played by new biomaterials.

This book advances biomedical innovations to address the plethora of health problems afflicting the developing world.

Given rapid research progress and advance of the techniques in studying HIV interactions with host cells and factors, there is a critical need for a book on HIV interactions with DCs.

The book starts with a general introduction into the relevance of systems biology for understanding tuberculosis.

This book highlights progress and trends in the rapidly evolving field of complement-related drug discovery and spotlights examples of clinical applications.

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Vibrational spectroscopy techniques, which have traditionally been used to provide non-destructive, rapid, and relevant information on microbial systematics, are useful for classification and identification.

Isoprenoids are important in primary and secondary metabolism.

This book will assemble the views of many of the world's experts in the field of viruses and diabetes.

The HIV pandemic continues to levy a heavy burden on the human race world-wide.

Laboratory Protocols in Fungal Biology presents the latest techniques in fungal biology.

In multicellular organisms the establishment, maintenance, and programmed alterations of cell-type specific gene expression patterns are regulated by epigenetic mechanisms.

This is a review of recent advances on the use of DNA microarray for diagnosing foodborne pathogens.

This book evolved from the editors strong belief that the information and new developments that were evolving from the rapidly growing field of genomics and that are happening primarily in the developed world have not happened at a parallel rate in the developing world.

Concerns over dwindling fossil fuel reserves and impending climate changes have focused attention worldwide on the need to discover alternative, sustainable energy sources and fuels.

In this book, some of the most qualified scientists review different food safety topics, ranging from emerging and reemerging foodborne pathogens, food regulations in the USA, food risk analysis and the most important foodborne pathogens based on food commodities.

Upon infection the host needs to mount vigorous immune response against pathogen in order to successfully control its replication.

The aim and scope of this book is to highlight the sources, isolation, characterization and applications of bioactive compounds from the marine environment and to discuss how marine bioactive compounds represent a major market application in food and other industries.

Biomaterials associated infection (BAI) is one of the most common complications associated with implantation of any biomaterial regardless of form or function.

This book will contain a series of solicited chapters that concern with the molecular machines required by viruses to perform various essential functions of virus life cycle.

In biochemistry, a metalloprotein is a generic term for a protein that contains a metal cofactor.

Molecular Life Sciences: An Encyclopedic Reference will focus on understanding biological phenomena at the level of molecules and their interactions that govern life processes.

The detection of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is becoming very complex, with new GMOs, approved and unapproved, constantly entering world markets.

The practice of supplementing direct fed microbial and prebiotic additives to domestic animals during growth is becoming more widespread in food animal production.

Book covers course with topics in infectious diseases in children and is intended for Pediatric Infectious disease clinical researchers, trainees, trainers, and all those who manage the research of children with infections and the children themselves.

Mounting evidence in the past decade indicates that innate immunity mediates functions above and beyond first-line defense against infection.

Sulfate-reducing bacteria comprise a diverse and ecologically interactive group of anaerobic prokaryotes which share an extraordinary trait: growth by sulfate respiration with hydrogen sulfide as a major end-product.

The all new Concepts in Viral Pathogenesis III contains the widely praised format of presenting up-to-date information in pithy, easily read "e;mini-review"e; style and complements previous editions with contributions by leading international authorities on structure-function relationships, gene regulation, cell biology of viral infections, transgenic mice, expression of viral genes, retroviruses, and evolving concepts in viral diseases.

Physicians in most developed countries are at a great disadvantage when confronted with geographic and tropical diseases.

Rhizobia are bacteria which inhabit the roots of plants in the pea family and "e;fix"e; atmospheric nitrogen for plant growth.

During the past few decades we have witnessed an era of remarkable growth in the field of molecular biology.

This book was written during a period when the technologies of genetic engineering were being applied to the study of animal viruses and when the organization and function of individual virus genes were being elucidated.

Biosynthesis of cellular and viral DNA and RNA has been a major topic in molecular biology and biochemistry.

Research on antiviral drugs and their mode of action in infected cells.

It has been slightly more than two decades since the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered by Prof.

Take a disease of complex pathology with inflammatory and neoplastic features, which affects lymphoid and neural tissues, belonging to a disease group which killed one chicken in five, and which defied efforts to understand and control it for !

The development of recombinant DNA technology has made a marked impact on molecular virology.

Since the discovery of Australia antigen and its association with type B hepatitis, molecular characterization of the components making up hepatitis B virus (RBV) have been pursued with worldwide interest.

The nucleotide sequence of the gene from which messenger RNA mole- cules are transcribed is in a form that can be translated by cellular ribosomes into the amino acid sequence of a particular polypeptide, the product of the gene.

This book is based on the lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Sensory Perception and Transduction in Aneural Organisms"e; held in Volterra (Pisa.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite.

The influence of basic science, particularly molecular biology, in human and veterinary medicine revolutionized thinking in many aspects and changed fundamentally and creatively the classical strategy for research and prevention of infectious diseases.

It is almost twenty years since the first DNA tumor virus meeting was held at Cold Spring Harbor.