Medical research

Across science and engineering, new opportunities are unfolding at the convergence of traditional fields.

Metalloproteins comprise approximately 30% of all known proteins, and are involved in a variety of biologically important processes, including oxygen transport, biosynthesis, electron transfer, biodegradation, drug metabolism, proteolysis, and hydrolysis of amides and esters, environmental sulfur and nitrogen cycles, and disease mechanisms.

Although best known for its role in heart disease, the sarcomere--the fundamental unit of muscle contraction--is also involved in skeletal muscle diseases.

West Nile virus is a neurotropic flavivirus that has emerged globally as a primary cause of viral encephalitis.

Biomarkers hold immense promise for the early detection of disease.

Focus, Organization, and Content This book, like the first edition, deals with the mass transport processes that take place in living systems, with a focus on the normal behavior of eukaryotic cells and the - ganisms they constitute, in their normal physiological environment.

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily is a rapidly growing family of cytokines that interacts with a corresponding superfamily of receptors.

A recent review of one of my grant applications commented on the 'rediscovery of tropomyosin'.

Nearly a century of scientific research has revealed that mitochondrial dysfunction is one of the most common and consistent phenotypes of cancer cells.

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Human immunosenescence contributes to morbidity and mortality in later life.

Under the name of programmed cell death (PCD) are included diverse molecular mechanism of cell suicide which play an essential role in the development of multicellular organisms.

The complexarchitectureofneuronal networks togetherwith the extraordinary associated functions make the nervous system a fascinating biological structure.

In this edited book, we highlight the central players in the Bionanotechnology field, which are the nanostructures and biomolecules.

The objective of this book is to provide up-to-date coverage of some of the emerging developments in the field of integrated DNA biochips.

During the last decade, a number of novel biophysical methods have been developed that allow the manipulation and study of individual biomolecules.

Bioengineering and biotechnology are exploding-the number of career opportunities is expected to increase twice as fast as for other science and engineering fields over the next decade.

Nonhuman primates have played critical roles in biomedical research, and they are among the few animals whose use in research continues to increase.

All of the parasitic organisms highlighted in this new book represent medically important human pathogens that contribute significantly to the global burden of disease.

Parasitic, bacterial and viral agents continue to challenge the welfare of humans, livestock, wild life and plants worldwide.

th The Who's Who in Fluorescence 2008 is the 6 Volume of the Who's Who Series.

The hypoxia volumes will focus on cutting edge research at the interface of hypoxia and biomedicine.

Principles of Bacterial Detection: Biosensors, Recognition Receptors and Microsystems will cover the up-to-date biosensor technologies used for the detection of bacteria.

In Breast Cancer Chemosensitivity, a group of world leading experts review critical aspects of resistance to systemic therapy in breast cancer patients.

Like the geological treasures that surely must lie below the Athabasca glacier, some of the answers to key questions about the control of respiration remain buried.

Sir Francis Crick would undoubtedly be at the front of the line ordering this fascinating book.

The term mitochondrion is derived from Latin, with mitos meaning thread and chondrion meaning granules.

Genetically-engineered mouse models for cancer research have become invaluable tools for studying cancer biology and evaluating novel therapeutic approaches.

The Journal of Fluorescence's fifth Who's Who directory is to publish the names, contact details, specialty keywords, and a brief description of scientists employing fluorescence methodology and instrumentation in their working lives.

Multivariate analysis is a mainstay of statistical tools in the analysis of biomedical data.

Molecular biology has rapidly advanced since the discovery of the basic flow of information in life, from DNA to RNA to proteins.

Nearly everything making up what we call the "e;environment"e; of a plant has an infuence on the way it grows.

As someone who has spent nearly half his life wondering about the relationship between Helicobacter and gastric cancer, I find this textbook on the subject exciting and timely.

In this book, Dr.

Kinetochores orchestrate the faithful transmission of chromosomes from one generation to the next.

Each chapter will focus on the known molecular characteristics of specific childhood cancers, focusing on how the molecular 'drivers' can be exploited from a therapeutic standpoint with currently available targeted agents.

A nanoparticle is a microscopic particle with at least one dimension less than 100 nm.

Proceedings of the Light-Activated Tissue Regeneration and Therapy Conference covers issues such as the latest advances in the field and measurements including the determination of the mechanisms of light-activated tissue regeneration and therapy.

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Polymeric materials of the 21st century often contain atoms that are not present in traditional polymers.

All enzymes are remarkable since they have the ability to increase the rate of a chemical reaction, often by more than a billion-fold.

In the biomedical field, biomedical imaging has come to be a discipline of its own, given the nature of its applications in the understanding of the human body and medical diagnostics.

I was delighted when I learned in the fall of 2005 that Steve Cowin was working on a textbook in biomechanics.

Biological homeostasis is maintained via intact function of an array of molecules detecting changes of microenvironments inside and outside of the biological system.

Endosomes are a heterogeneous population of endocytic vesicles and tubules that have captivated the interest of biologists for many years, partly due to their important cellular functions and partly due to their intriguing nature and dynamics.

utoimmunity is the downstream outcome of a rather extensive and coordinated series of events that include loss of self-tolerance, peripheral lymphocyte Aactivation, disruption of the blood-systems barriers, cellular infiltration into the target organs and local inflammation.