Biology, life sciences

This proceedings contains articles submitted to the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN2017).

Unlike bacteria and viruses, which are based on DNA and RNA, prions are unique as disease-causing agents since they are misfolded proteins.

This volume in the series, Translational Bioinformatics, provides an up-to-date overview of genomic approaches to asthma.

In this book, the molecular recognition of DNA using small molecules is discussed, with a study of the photochemistry of BrU-labeled DNA.

This contributed volume contains 25 chapters from leading international scientists working on dengue and Zika viruses, who came together in Praia do Tofo in Mozambique to discuss the latest developments in the fields of epidemiology, pathogenesis, structural virology, immunology, antiviral drug discovery and development, vaccine efficacy, and mosquito control programs.

The volume contains 69 high quality papers presented at International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics (ICCII 2017).

This edited book contains a compilation of 14 advanced academic chapters dealing with the structure and function of membrane protein complexes.

This book systematically illustrates the underlying mechanisms of spatial variation in ecosystem carbon fluxes.

The aim of the Protein Reviews is to serve as a publication vehicle for review articles that focus on crucial current vigorous aspects of protein structure, function, evolution and genetics.

This book comprehensively describes the transgenesis techniques and applied experimental methods in ascidians including enthusiastically developed original devices in addition to concrete examples of developmental biology studies.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of ZIC-family research.

This book introduces and reviews several topics for each human herpesvirus.

This book focuses on Blakiston's fish owl and the red-crowned crane as umbrella species.

This book reviews the latest trends and future directions of DNA replication research.

The aim of the Protein Reviews is to serve as a publication vehicle for review articles that focus on crucial current vigorous aspects of protein structure, function, evolution and genetics.

This book explores the use of various plant polysaccharides for pharmaceutical purposes, including drug delivery.

This book offers comprehensive information on all aspects of ELISA, starting with the fundamentals of the immune system.

This book presents interdisciplinary research on cognition, mind and behavior from an information processing perspective.

The book describes molecular principles and mechanisms by which mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) can drive the occurrence of diseases and the latest understanding of mtDNA biology.

This book highlights the interdisciplinary study of cognition, mind and behavior from an information processing perspective, and describes related applications to health informatics.

This book is the first one to examine the cause and effect of elderly people's healthy life expectancy, providing models that are easy to understand.

This volume comprises the select proceedings of the annual convention of the Computer Society of India.

This book reviews the functions and roles of DJ-1 in various oxidative stress-related diseases and applications of DJ-1 and its binding compounds to the diseases.

This book focuses on an "e;outside the box"e; notion by utilizing the powerful applications of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies in the interface of chemistry and biology.

This book highlights a new biomedical signal processing method of extracting a specific underlying signal from possibly noisy multi-channel recordings, and shows that the method is suitable for extracting independent components from the measured electroencephalogram (EEG) signal.

This book offers an essential introduction for all graduate students and researchers who are working on or interested in mechanotransduction using fruit flies as their model organisms.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how fractal analytics can lead to the extraction of interesting features from the complex electroencephalograph (EEG) signals generated by Hindustani classical music.

This book comprehensively introduces recent important studies on coral reefs from various research fields including biology, ecology, chemistry, the earth sciences, and conservation studies.

The three-volume set CCIS 761, CCIS 762, and CCIS 763 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2017, and of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2017, held in Nanjing, China, in September 2017.

This volume focuses on the modulation of biological membranes by specific biophysical properties.

The book addresses the interplay of healthcare and big data management.

This book provides a clear, comprehensible and up-to-date description of how Small Angle Scattering (SAS) can help structural biology researchers.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to translational efforts in breast cancer, addressing the latest approaches to precision medicine based on the current state of understanding of breast cancer.

This book discusses recent research in innate immunity, which has revealed a large number of receptors that sense the presence of microorganisms or cellular damage in tissues.

This book offers a state-of-the-art report on recent discoveries concerning viral, bacterial, and parasite infectious cancers.

This book is about the transformation of the biomedical information to smart healthcare, the chapters are designed to discuss the health associated factors such as genetics, lifestyle, nutrition and environmental factors.

This book focuses on the similarities and differences between substance and non-substance addictions.

This book addresses the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), a new medical concept that demonstrates that various adult diseases start in the fetal period.

This book presents a detailed overview of the design, formatting, application, and development of microfluidic chips in the context of cell biology research, enumerating each element involved in microfluidics-based cell analysis, discussing its history, status quo, and future prospects, It also offers an extensive review of the research completed in the past decade, including numerous color figures.

This contributed volume offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the various aspects of long non-coding RNAs and discusses their emerging significance.

This book presents an overview of the current state of research on ultrashort electric field pulses of high intensity and their use in biology and medicine.

This book presents and discusses the latest advances in biotechnology, and selected challenges and opportunities in connection with its industrial applications.

This book provides a review of essential research on urinary tract infections (UTIs), as well as a broader perspective on methodologies adopted for the isolation and identification of the bacteria from urine samples of pregnant and non-pregnant women on the basis of their cultural, morphological and biochemical characteristics.

This book focuses on a topical and timely aspect of prokaryotic biology - the biology of prokaryotic multiple chaperonins.

This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia.

This book highlights the experimental investigations that have been carried out on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography (MRI & CT) images using state-of-the-art Computational Image processing techniques, and tabulates the statistical values wherever necessary.

This book provides the first comprehensive coverage of the quickly evolving research field of membrane contact sites (MCS).

This volume presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (ICBHI).

This book highlights the current state of the art in single cell analysis, an area that involves many fields of science - from clinical hematology, functional analysis and drug screening, to platelet and microparticle analysis, marine biology and fundamental cancer research.

This book offers an essential guide to RNA activation (RNAa), an emerging and fascinating new field.