Medical research

Approximately three percent of newborn humans have congenital anomalies with significant cosmetic and/or functional consequences.

This volume comprehensively covers new technologies and methodologies that have appeared for the study of mouse development- Update of volume 225, Guide to Techniques in Mouse Development, edited by P.

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.

This volume continues the trend for Advances in Drug Research of shorter, but more frequent volumes.

Novel Anticancer Agents offers pertinent basic science information on strategies used for the rational design and discovery of novel anticancer agents, and, in addition, translational studies involving clinical trial design and execution with these novel, mostly cytostatic agents.

 This volume details the history of Retinitis Pigmentosa and current treatment options.

This volume explores the latest techniques used to study neurodevelopmental diseases (NDD) that range from molecular aspects to integrated research approaches and brain imaging in living rodents.

The first of two companion books addressed the biology and clinical aspects of ovarian cancer.

Propolis is a natural aromatic and sticky substance collected by bees from plant resins.

Astrocytes are some of the key cells in the central nervous system with complex, specific and important roles.

It is difficult to find solutions for diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disease if we do not understand the most basic structures within the human body.

This Reader is about the changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana.

This book describes the basics and various applications of DNA fingerprinting, including in actual case studies.

This book focuses on the emerging health issues due to climate change, particularly emphasizing the situation in developing countries.

"Los autores de este libro ya nos habían deleitado en un espléndido texto hace tres años.

In this new book, Trainini and his team attempt a step forward and make a series of proposals that come to complete cardiac anatomy, physiology and mechanics.

Myocardial Torsion is a book different from others, simply because this book is unique, unusual, and I dare say with admiration, it is a curious book, partly magical, full of personality, for initiatory readers, revealing, provocative, challenging.

 Torsión miocárdica  es un libro diferente, distinto, es más, me atrevo a decir con admiración que es un libro extraño, en parte mágico, lleno de personalidad, para iniciáticos, revelador, provocador, desafiante.

Este libro esta destinado tanto a médicos generales y especialistas como a pacientes interesados en profundizar sus conocimientos sobre dos grandes y desconocidas epidemias, que afectan enormemente la calidad y la perspectiva de vida de adultos y niños: la privación de sueño y la apnea de sueño (ronquido).

This book is a practical guide for residents and young researchers who are planning to embark on research.

This is a one-of-a-kind book: combining easy-to-understand science, in-the-trenches political warfare, and inspirational stories.

The main aim of the symposium on the hearing system is to provide a forum in which data, ideas and models from both the physiological and psychoacoustical standpoints can be presented and discussed.

Recent advances in psychoacoustics and speech research have an important impact on our understanding of hearing impairment and the concepts of compensating hearing problems with modern hearing instruments.

Cancer research is at a crossroads.

This monograph is a study of optimal control applied to cancer chemotherapy, the treatment of cancer using drugs that kill cancer cells.

With advances in our understanding of the molecular biology of human diseases and the development of efficient gene transfer techniques, the treatment of such diseases as cancer and infectious disease using gene therapy has progressed from a distant prospect to a distinct possibility in a very short time.

This research monograph discusses newly developed mathematical models and methods that provide biologically meaningful inferences from data on cancer latency produced by follow-up and discrete surveillance studies.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating pathology of the central nervous system (CNS) of unknown etiology which represents the most common neurodegenerative disorder.

This important book comprises a narrative account of research on the hepatitis B virus (and related subjects) and selected reprints from the laboratory of Nobel laureate Baruch S Blumberg and his colleagues.

The Finnish doctor Kari Cantell is one of the scientists to whom the development of the drugs called interferons can be attributed.

This book presents new and powerful advanced statistical methods that have been used in modern medicine, drug development, and epidemiology.

This book is all about the definition and finding ways to prioritize and accelerate translation research in biomedical sciences and rapidly turning new knowledge into first-in-human studies.

Nanomedicine consists of the use of nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology in medicine.

This book aims to provide useful tips for the understanding of scientific research processes and practical advice for people engaged in this field.

This book focuses on the principles, methods, and interpretation involved in establishing the safety, risk, and hazard assessment of small molecules.

This book presents a road map for applying the stages in conceptualization, evaluation, and testing of biomedical devices in a systematic order of approach, leading to solutions for medical problems within a well-deserved safety limit.

This book focuses on applications of compound library design and virtual screening to expand the bioactive chemical space, to target hopping of chemotypes to identify synergies within related drug discovery projects or to repurpose known drugs, to propose mechanism of action of compounds, or to identify off-target effects by cross-reactivity analys

This book outlines comprehensively the main medical uses of aptamers, from diagnosis to therapeutics in fourteen chapters.

This edited book serves as a vital resource on the contributions of microorganisms to advances in nanotechnology, establishing their applications in diverse areas of biomedicine, environment, biocatalysis, food and nutrition, and renewable energy.

A suitable drug delivery system is an essential element in achieving efficient therapeutic responses of drug molecules.

This book presents an overview of up-converting phosphor (UCP), including UCP preparation, development of the rapid detection strips and UCP industrialization.

This book discusses the application of molecular biology in resource science and authentication of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

The book deals with basic cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with aging.

This narrative of a cancer researcher spans a period in which biomedicine research has been so revolutionary.

Advances in cancer research have grown exponentially in recent decades.

China has remarkable achievements in treating burnt patients and in clinical and laboratory research on burns.

This book discusses systematically treatment on the development of stochastic, statistical and state space models of the HIV epidemic and of HIV pathogenesis in HIV-infected individuals, and presents the applications of these models.

Laboratory animal research remains a very important part of basic research and drug development.