Biology, life sciences

Concise and up-to-date, this handy guide fills a gap in the literature by providing the essential knowledge for everyone with an interest in the topic.

Alle g ngigen mikrobiologischen Nachweismethoden sind hier f r den Praktiker zusammengestellt.

Here, an extremely experienced team of authors from five different continents provides a timely review of progress in the use and exploitation of soil bacteria to improve crop and plant growth.

Since carbohydrate oligomers are still a challenge in synthetic chemistry, this book on recent developments fulfils a great need.

Based on results previously restricted for military use and inaccessible to the public, this practice-oriented handbook introduces the use of enzymes for fast and efficient decontamination of B/C weapons in various scenarios, including terrorist attacks.

This practice-oriented handbook surveys current knowledge on the prediction and prevention of adverse drug reactions related to off-target activity of small molecule drugs.

This ready reference is the first to collate the interdisciplinary knowledge from materials science, bioengineering and nanotechnology to give an in-depth overview of the topic.

The authors describe basic theoretical concepts of vibrational spectroscopy, address instrumental aspects and experimental procedures, and discuss experimental and theoretical methods for interpreting vibrational spectra.

Meeting the need for a book on developing and using new methods to investigate membrane proteins, this is the first of its kind to present the full range of novel techniques in one resource.

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This mini-encyclopedia contains more than 1,500 alphabetical entries from the entire field of peptide science in one handy volume, as well as the technical terms, acronyms and concepts used in peptide chemistry.

This two-volume handbook is unique in spanning the entire field of evolution, from the origins of life up to the formation of social structures and science and technology.

This final volume in the series focuses on malfunctions of the ubiquitin-proteasome system and their role in human disease.

This up-to-date resource is based on lectures developed by experts in the relevant fields and carefully edited by the leading astrobiologists within the European community.

This concise yet comprehensive treatment of the effects of spaceflight on biological systems includes issues at the forefront of life sciences research, such as gravitational biology, immune system response, bone cell formation and the effects of radiation on biosystems.

Discussing international issues of health care financing, this is the first volume in a completely new public health book series, edited by the Institute of Health Economics (IHE) in Edmonton, Canada.

Barrier, reservoir, target site - those are but some of the possible functions of biological lipid membranes in the complex interplay of drugs with the organism.

This work represents the first comprehensive publication in the innovative field of pharmacogenomics, a field which is set to revolutionize pharmaceutical research.

An up-to date review of basic research on biomembranes.

Opinion leaders in science and politics examine findings and legislation in alternatives to animal testing!

Recent expansion in the range and sophistication of techniques in protein science has provided a wealth of new information.

Unique in approach, exhaustive in coverage: this book provides information usually not available to scientists.

This book helps evaluate the state of the art of rhizosphere microbial ecology and biotechnology.

Both a thorough introduction and laboratory guide!

With the dramatically rising sophistication of biological methods and products and the increasing use of recombinant DNA technology, now is an apt time to review the status of biotechnology in animal feeding.

This book supplies an application-oriented introduction to molecular simulation techniques used to study a wide range of problems in molecular biology.

Bioinformatics, in this context the application of computer science to biological problems, has become an indispensable part of any research in the biosciences.

In situ hybridization is a proven, powerful technique with applications in chromosome and genome analysis, as well as gene expression.

This volume is the continuation of a successful bookseries devoted to an increasingly vital subject: the utilization of carbohydrates as chemical raw materials.

This book is concerned with modelling the fate of organic substances in the soil.

This is a survey of well characterized and recently discovered bacterial protein toxins.

A comprehensive overview of recent advances, from current basic research and epidemiology, to novel therapeutic strategies and clinical management.

Refractory organic substances (ROS) are an essential part of the biogeochemical carbon cycle.

Industrial Biotransformations - a user-friendly and application-oriented up-to-date overview of one-step biotransformations of industrial importance.

Proteomics - the analysis of the whole set of proteins and their functions in a cell - is based on the revolutionary developments which have been achieved in protein analysis during the last years.

Iron plays a crucial role in many biochemical processes.

Since the development of the NMR spectrometer in the 1950s, NMR spectra have been widely used for the elucidation of the 2D structure of newly synthesized and natural compounds.

The story of success goes on and on - with a new book on combinatorial chemistry, edited by Gunther Jung!

As research on the human, animal, plant and microbial genomes matures towards descriptive fullness, the need for understanding the proteome has clearly emerged as the next major endeavor of life sciences.

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

The ozonation of compounds in water is a complex process.

When trying to find new methods and problem-solving strategies for their research, scientists often turn to nature for inspiration.

This book describes medical applications of recombinant proteins and monoclonal antibodies, some of which have already been on the market for several years while others have only recently been launched.

This is the first book specializing in plasmids and their biomedical use, including all relevant aspects of production, applications, quality, and regulations.

Transport of molecules across the cell membrane is a fundamental process of all living organisms.

Provides an overview of the rapidly evolving field of genomics with coverage of nucleic acid technologies, proteomics and bioinformatics.

Antisense and ribozymes have a relatively short yet successful history as research tools in gene expression studies, and thus are considered as having high potential reagents in treating viral infections and cancer.

This forth updated edition contains the latest developments in analytical techniques.

This book introduces the principles and concepts of chemical and biochemical sensors for analyzing medical as well as biological samples.

This book builds up on the success of the first edition of Paints, Coatings, and Solvents.