Biotechnology

White biotechnology, or industrial biotechnology as it is also known, refers to the use of living cells and/or their enzymes to create industrial products that are more easily degradable, require less energy, create less waste during production and sometimes perform better than products created using traditional chemical processes.

Plants have to manage a series of environmental stresses throughout their entire lifespan.

This edited volume explores the use of technology to enable us to visualise the life sciences in a more meaningful and engaging way.

This book offers an impressive collection of contributions on the epistemology of international biolaw and its applications, both in the legal and ethical fields.

This book discusses the latest developments in plant-mediated fabrication of metal and metal-oxide nanoparticles, and their characterization by using a variety of modern techniques.

This book explores the fabrication of soft material and biomimetic MEMS sensors, presents a review of MEMS/NEMS energy harvesters and self-powered sensors, and focuses on the recent efforts in developing flexible and wearable piezoelectric nanogenerators.

This book discusses why specific diseases are being targeted for cell-based retinal therapy, what evidence exists that justifies optimism for this approach, and what challenges must be managed in order to bring this technology from the laboratory into routine clinical practice.

This book deals with the noteworthy advancement in the production of bioactive metabolites from microbes and their pharmacological significance.

Development of superior crops that have consistent performance in quality and in quantity has not received the same emphasis in the field of genetics and breeding as merited.

Population genomics has revolutionized various disciplines of biology including population, evolutionary, ecological and conservation genetics, plant and animal breeding, human health, medicine and pharmacology by allowing to address novel and long-standing questions with unprecedented power and accuracy.

Carolyn's parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab.

This monograph is devoted to full-scale geoecological risk assessment in gas industry impacted polar areas and the relevant risk management options using innovative nature-like biogeochemical technologies.

Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq.

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

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

This book provides an authoritative introduction to the rapidly growing field of chemical reaction network theory.

Plant endophytes are a potential source for the production of bioactive compounds that can fight against devastating diseases in both plants and humans.

This book introduces readers to the theory and practice of extrusion bio-printing of scaffolds for tissue engineering applications.

 This book provides an up-to-date review and analysis of the carrot's nuclear and organellar genome structure and evolution.

Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq.

Throughout history, humanity has been plagued by a myriad of humanitarian crises that seemingly take the form of perpetual human suffering.

This book provides information about the sources, structure, and properties of keratin as well as its applications.

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

Mushrooms are fleshy fungi with a high prospective for the production of secondary metabolites including extracellular enzymes with high agricultural and biotechnological significance.

This volume explores novel concepts of pericyte biology.

Bioremediation refers to the clean-up of pollution in soil, groundwater, surface water, and air using typically microbiological processes.

This book presents selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2017) which examine sustainable rural development in the context of environmental, economic, and the socio-cultural dimension.

This book examines how emergent trends in innovation and its governance are raising new and old questions about how to control technology.

This book focuses on current applications of glial cells in neural regeneration, especially in spinal cord repair.

A significant and convenient approach to detection and analysis of biological, environmental and agricultural items is the harnessing of features in widely available smartphones to create field-deployable scientific instruments, allowing measurements to be made onsite and in real-time.

This book has been assembled with the hope of being an authoritative, comprehensive, conceptually sound and highly informative compilation of recent advances describing the concepts of bioengineering in the field of microbiology.

Advances in molecular biology and genome research in the form of molecular breeding and genetic engineering put forward innovative prospects for improving productivity of many pulses crops.

Reviews in Fluorescence 2017, the tenth volume of the book serial from Springer, serves as a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of fluorescence and closely related disciplines, such as fluorescence based plasmonics.

Cold stress is one of the prevalent environmental stresses affecting crop productivity, particularly in temperate regions.

Therapeutic properties of bamboo have been known since ancient times as a part of several traditional systems of medicine and folk remedies in different parts of the world.

This book presents in-depth information on the state of the art of global biodiesel production and investigates its impact on climate change.

Human population is escalating at an enormous pace and is estimated to reach 9.

This book presents a mechanistic approach-mathematical modeling-for carrying out dental materials research.

This volume examines the latest scientific and technological developments likely to shape our post-human future.

Solid biofuels, in different trading forms, constitute an integral component of the energy mix of almost all developed and developing countries.

This introductory text explains both the basic science and the applications of biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals, with special emphasis on their clinical use.

These are the proceedings of the International Conference on ISMAC-CVB, held in Palladam, India, in May 2018.

This book is the first comprehensive volume on the genetics and genomics of pineapple and provides an overview of the current state of pineapple research.

The timely volume describes recent discoveries and method developments that have revolutionized Structural Biology with the advent of X-ray Free Electron Lasers.

This book covers the state-of-the-art research on advanced high-resolution tomography, exploring its role in regenerative medicine.

This book contains the selected papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB 2018), held in Cassino, Italy, in 2018.

This volume contains the proceedings of the RAAD 2018 conference, covering major areas of research and development in robotics.

This book deliberates on the concept, strategies, tools, and techniques of allele mining in grain legume crops and its application potential in genome elucidation and improvement, including studying allele evolution, discovery of superior alleles, discerning new haplotypes, assessment of intra- and interspecific similarity, and also studies of gene expression and gene prediction.

Population genomics has revolutionized various disciplines of biology including population, evolutionary, ecological and conservation genetics, plant and animal breeding, human health, medicine and pharmacology by allowing to address novel and long-standing questions with unprecedented power and accuracy.

Political parties run by entrepreneurs as a means to their own end are a recent phenomenon found in many countries, and their electoral influence has never been greater.