Medical genetics

This edited book focuses on the recent advances in our understanding of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), combining epidemiology and clinical diagnosis, with genetics and immunological aspects as well as the role of proteostasis and mitochondria before diving into new therapies including stem cell based approaches.

This book provides an overview of the latest experimental work on sex-based differences in lung function and inflammation.

This book focuses on the emerging role of ferroptosis in human diseases.

This second edition focuses on the study of human interphase chromosomes and its relation to health and disease.

Heterogeneity, or mixtures, are ubiquitous in genetics.

This book reviews the current state of ocular drug therapy and future therapeutic opportunities for a wide variety of conditions, including Age-related Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Edema, Glaucoma, and Inherited Retinal Diseases.

This book reviews recent advances in the emerging field of computational network biology with special emphasis on comparative network analysis and network module detection.

This book reviews the recent research into biological aspects of suicide behavior and outlines each of the varied, recent approaches to prevent suicide.

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells.

Practitioners are increasingly adopting a personalised medicine approach to individually tailored patient care, especially disease diagnosis and treatment with the use of biomarkers.

Under the name of Frontotemporal Dementias (FTD) numerous hereditary and sporadic disorders are listed.

Lipids are responsible not just for constituting cellular membrane but also for storing energy, transducing signaling, and modifying proteins.

This thoroughly revised third edition provides a comprehensive grounding on hereditary heart diseases with special emphasis on the genetic aspects of these conditions.

Lipids are responsible not just for constituting cellular membrane but also for storing energy, transducing signaling, and modifying proteins.

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells.

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of various aspects of long non-coding RNAs.

Signal transduction comprises the intracellular biochemical signals which induce the appropriate cell response to an external stimulus.

This textbook will support graduate students with learning materials rich in the basic concepts of stem cell biology, in its most widespread and updated perspective.

Fully revised and updated with the most current information, the third edition of this practical clinical text covers all aspects of the rapidly advancing field of preimplantation genetic testing (PGT).

This is a reference handbook for young researchers exploring gene and cell therapy.

DNA is under constant challenge from environmental and endogenous metabolic assaults.

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

This book presents a collection of chapters, which address various contexts and challenges of the idea of human enhancement for the purposes of human space missions.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of breast MRI for screening high-risk women, including those with familial-genetic hereditary predisposition and previous chest radiation therapy, typically lymphoma survivors.

The world population is rapidly aging-it is estimated that by 1950, around 17% of the population will be elderly.

This book provides a comprehensive description of sterols and their novel biological roles in mammalian signaling, the book covers their biosynthesis and structure, describes sterol receptor -mediated actions, their tissue distribution and their role in disease.

This book offers an authoritative review of biopharmaceuticals and their clinical relevance.

Protein homeostasis, or "e;Proteostasis"e;, lies at the heart of human health and disease.

This unique, case-based guide provides a thoughtful and comprehensive overview of the genetic basis of male infertility for the practicing clinician.

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells.

The genotype/phenotype dichotomy is being slowly replaced by a more complex relationship whereby the majority of phenotypes arise from interactions between one's genotype and the environment in which one lives.

The way a cell undergoes malignant transformation should meet their capacity of surviving in the microenvironment of the organ where the cancer will develop.

This novel is set in the near future, where human genome editing has become routine.

This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded-including large gains in wealth, longevity, and (possibly) happiness-it has occurred together with the appearance of a variety of serious problems.

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells.

The 3rd World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics, and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2018), focuses on recent advances in genetics, geriatrics, and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments.

The 3rd World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics, and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2018), focuses on recent advances in genetics, geriatrics, and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments.

The 3rd World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics, and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2018), focuses on recent advances in genetics, geriatrics, and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments.

This book provides a unique overview on the most recent developments in initially diverse areas of behavioral genomic research that now start to intertwine to provide more detailed insights into the complex nature of behavior in health and disease.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide.

This collection of nine essays provides an entertaining and thoughtful glimpse into trending topics in our lives.

This book reaches out to a wide variety of professionals in the biomedical field with an interest in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

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

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the genetic basis underlying endocrine diseases.

The ability to measure and monitor cancer biomarkers in "e;body fluid biopsy"e; should greatly impact oncologic practice.

This contributed book covers all aspects concerning the clinical scenario of breast cancer in young women, providing physicians with the latest information on the topic.

Using both epidemiological and model organism approaches, we have gained new insights into the physiological and molecular aspects of aging, which has led to significant advancements in potential anti-aging strategies.

Mast cells (MC) are phylogenetically old cells which are distributed throughout the human organism.

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The book focuses on the evolutionary impact of horizontal gene transfer processes on pathogenicity, environmental adaptation and biological speciation.