Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques

Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) is a highly versatile model with a genetic legacy of more than a century.

This book offers a comprehensive collection of papers on CRISPR/Cas genome editing in connection with agriculture, climate-smart crops, food security, translational research applications, bioinformatics analysis, practical applications in cereals, floriculture crops, engineering plants for abiotic stress resistance, the intellectual landscape, regulatory framework, and policy decisions.

Great Salt Lake is an enormous terminal lake in the western United States.

Aleocharine beetles are among the most poorly known and difficult-to-identify groups of Coleoptera worldwide.

This is the Second Edition of a well-received book that reflects a fresh, integrated coverage of the concepts and scientific measurement of stress and welfare of animals including humans.

This book is dedicated to label-free, non-invasive monitoring of cell-based assays and it comprises the most widely applied techniques.

This edited volume is an extensive collection of methods for investigating plant litter dynamics in ecosystems.

Since different types of stem cells for therapeutic applications have recently been proposed, this timely volume explores various sources of stem cells for tissue and organ regeneration and discusses their advantages and limitations.

This book describes the state of the art across the broad range of spectroscopic techniques used in the study of biological systems.

This is the first comprehensive book focusing on the form and function of insect mouthparts.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the latest developments in the field of the genomics of cardiac disease.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the heterogeneity existing between different types of stem cells within the same tissue.

Evolutionary developmental biology or evo-devo is a field of biological research that compares the underlying mechanisms of developmental processes in different organisms to infer the ancestral condition of these processes and elucidate how they have evolved.

This is the second volume on dormancy in aquatic organisms.

Evolutionary developmental biology or evo-devo is a field of biological research that compares the underlying mechanisms of developmental processes in different organisms to infer the ancestral condition of these processes and elucidate how they have evolved.

Cell migration plays an important role during development and in many physiological and pathological processes, from wound healing to cancer.

This book offers the first comprehensive review of parasitic Crustacea, which are among the most successful and diverse parasites.

Birds catch the public imagination like no other group of animals; in addition, birders are perhaps the largest non-professional naturalist community.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the heterogeneity existing between different types of stem cells within the same tissue, for several types of cancers, e.

This book is devoted to the welfare of invertebrates, which make up 99% of animal species on earth.

This book presents the facet theoretical framework as a tool for facilitating the conception of complex animal behaviour research and the design of research procedures through employing mapping sentences.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the novel concepts in stem cell heterogeneity, from pluripotent stem cells to human mesenchymal stem cells, adult and cancer stem cells of the thyroid, sarcoma, and more.

The second edition of this textbook offers extended information on imaging as well as relaxation.

Stereotaxic neurosurgery in rodents is used by a variety of people working at research laboratories (research staff, technicians, students at animal facilities.

Les théories mathématiques dites morphologiques, malgré leur complexité et leur abstraction, montrent que la science moderne ne s'éloigne pas autant de la vie quotidienne qu'on veut bien le dire.

Extrait : "La décoration d'un arbre de Noël n'offre pas de bien grandes difficultés ; un peu de goût suffit en général.

Basics of Polymer, Volume II, demonstrates the scope of polymer testing.

"e;When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher's photographs, you might think you're looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines.

Near-field optics studies the behaviour of light fields in the vicinity of matter, where light is structured in propagating and evanescent fields.

This book deals with the statistical treatment of experimental data.

A nonneutral plasma is a many-body collection of charged particles in which there is not overall charge neutrality.

This book provides a concise introduction to practical aspects of atomic-resolution imaging in aberration-corrected electron microscopy.

This book highlights emerging diffraction studies of strain and dislocation gradients with mesoscale resolution, which is currently a focus of research at laboratories around the world.

The modern electron microscope, as a result of recent revolutionary developments and many evolutionary ones, now yields a wealth of quantitative knowledge pertaining to structure, dynamics, and function barely matched by any other single scientific instrument.

Protein expression is an increasingly important tool for research on gene function.

This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of, and practical guide to, the various computer-aided microscopical techniques used in materials science today.

Over the past decade, advances in this field have been rapid and we are now well into the era of digital photogrammetry.

This book looks at the common techniques used to prepare, purify and identify chemicals.

An accessible and applicable guide to quantitative problem solving in vacuum technology, this book is aimed at newcomers, students and the experienced practitioner.

The use of thermal and calorimetric methods has shown rapid growth over the last two decades, in an increasingly wide range of applications.

Principles and Practices of Method Validation is an overview of the most recent approaches used for method validation in cases when a large number of analytes are determined from a single aliquot and where a large number of samples are to be analysed.

There is currently a high level of interest in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), which, when successfully implemented, can revitalize the operations of a laboratory and contribute significantly to the effectiveness and efficiency of the overall enterprise.

Since its discovery in 1854, chlorosulfonic acid has demonstrated that it is a truly versatile reagent.

This text has been specifically designed to prepare people with previously limited chemical knowledge for entrance into science related courses (such as Foundation and Access courses) which involve chemistry, in higher education.

Blockchain is a new type of technology that combines and secures information exchange between different stakeholders such as medical practitioners, patients, healthcare providers, and other applicable parties.

The European Federation of Corrosion's Working Party on Surface Science and the Mechanisms of Corrosion and Protection (EFC WP6) has defined, as one of its objectives, the development of a reference material and reference guidelines for the application of electrochemical scanning tunnelling microscopy (EC-STM) in corrosion science.

Related Title: Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing: Advanced Techniques and Glassblowing's Place in History'If you are interested in learning about glassblowing techniques for scientific glassware, then this book is an incredible opportunity to learn from a master glassblower.

At a stage of major change in the world of television (the coming of digital TV, multiple channels, mobile TV on cellphones) this book seeks to take stock of the impact of the advent and presence of television on daily life over the past fifty years, or slightly longer.

This expansive and practical textbook contains organic chemistry experiments for teaching in the laboratory at the undergraduate level covering a range of functional group transformations and key organic reactions.

Over the last two decades, advances in the design, miniaturization, and analytical capabilities of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) instrumentation have led to its rapid and widespread adoption in a remarkably diverse range of applications in research and industrial fields.