Biotechnology

Revealing essential roles of the tumor microenvironment in cancer progression, this volume focuses on the extracellular matrix components of the tumor during cancer development.

The book on Trends in Quorum Sensing and Quorum Quenching: New Perspectives and Applications focuses on the recent advances in the field of quorum sensing in bacteria and the novel strategies developed for quorum sensing inhibition.

Genetic Engineering, Volume 25 contains discussions of contemporary and relevant topics in genetics, including: - Genotyping by Mass Spectrometry;- Development of Targeted Viral Vectors for Cardiovascular Gene Therapy; - Practical Applications of Rolling Circle Amplification of DNA Templates; - Bacterial ION Channels; - Applications of Plant Antiviral Proteins;- The Bacterial Scaffoldin: Structure, Function and Potential Applications in the Nanosciences.

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

RNA molecules play key roles in all aspects of cellular life, but to do so efficiently, they must work in synergism with proteins.

Wearable Telemedicine Technology for the Healthcare Industry: Product Design and Development focuses on recent advances and benefits of wearable telemedicine techniques for remote health monitoring and prevention of chronic conditions, providing real time feedback and help with rehabilitation and biomedical applications.

This Volume of the series Cardiac and Vascular Biology offers a comprehensive and exciting, state-of-the-art work on the current options and potentials of cardiac regeneration and repair.

This book explores the most recent advances in medicinal plant conservation and improvement through genetic transformation.

This book showcases the state of the art in the field of sensors and microsystems, revealing the impressive potential of novel methodologies and technologies.

Data Science for COVID-19, Volume 2: Societal and Medical Perspectives presents the most current and leading-edge research into the applications of a variety of data science techniques for the detection, mitigation, treatment and elimination of the COVID-19 virus.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of different ways to grow algae and the techniques used to start algal cultivation, monitor algal growth, environmental impact of growing algae, and various methods for characterizing the biomass.

This volume will be the only existing single-authored book offering a science-based breeder's manual directed at breeding for water-limited environments.

This book contributes to the theoretical and practitioner literature in environmental governance and sustainability of natural resources by linking case studies of the roles of narratives to the three key practices in local environmental governance: socio-political legitimacy in participation; collaboratively creating stakeholder-ness, and cultivating social and ecological capabilities.

This brief presents the state of the art on enzymatic synthesis of structured triglycerides and diglycerides, focusing on glycerol as the substrate and covering interesterification of vegetable oils in one and two steps.

Stephen Hawking says that the 21st century will be the century of complexity and indeed now systems biology or medicine means dealing with complexity.

This book focuses on the various applications of microorganisms for sustainable environment and the reduction of hazardous pollutants released in various forms, including xenobiotics, e-waste, pesticides, insecticides, plastic, heavy metals, paper waste, medical waste, textile dyes, and their impact on environmental and human health.

Bioinformatics for Everyone provides a brief overview on currently used technologies in the field of bioinformatics-interpreted as the application of information science to biology- including various online and offline bioinformatics tools and softwares.

This book embarks on an enlightening journey through the molecular landscape of collagen mimic peptides, shedding light on their significance and potential.

This third edition volume expands on the previous editions with new discussions on the latest techniques and developments in the field.

There has been a surge in critical situations such as malnutrition, agricultural productivity, viral diseases, noncommunicable diseases, antibiotic resistance, and depletion of natural resourcest hreatening human welfare during the last decade.

Presenting a stimulating synthesis of rapidly growing research interests and publications by scholars in the field of applied mycology and biotechnology.

Prefaces tend to be platitudinous and unconducive to perusal.

This book covers sustainable approaches for industrial transformation pertaining to valorization of agro-industrial byproducts.

Optogenetics represents a breakthrough technology capable of dynamically modulating molecular and cellular activity in live cells with high precision.

Wearable Robotics: Systems and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the entire field of wearable robotics, including active orthotics (exoskeleton) and active prosthetics for the upper and lower limb and full body.

This updatable book provides an accessible informative overview of the current state of the art in nerve repair research.

Thisbook describes a robust, low-cost electrochemical sensing system that is able todetect hormones and phthalates the most ubiquitous endocrine disruptorcompounds in beverages and is sufficiently flexible to be readily coupledwith any existing chemical or biochemical sensing system.

Microbial oxidative enzymes are in need of today and in the future also.

This book covers the latest research in biofilm, infection, and antimicrobial strategies in reducing and treating musculoskeletal, skin, transfusion, implant-related infections, etc.

This book presents recent scientific investigations in microbial ecology and systematics.

The 2014 International Conference on Biotechnology, Agriculture, Environment and Energy (ICBAEE 2014) was held May 22-23, 2014 in Beijing, China.

In recent years, nanoparticles-bionanomaterials with specific physicochemical properties-have gained a great deal of scientific interest owing to their unique structure.

Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) is both a system and a state of mind.

This book addresses an important and relatively neglected topic in the scientific literature: individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have dealings with the legal system.

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

This book describes various methods of decontamination and how the methods work.

Stem Cells: Therapeutic Innovations under Control traces the discovery of stem cells and induced pluripotent cells.

The discovery of ribozymes nearly 30 years ago triggered a huge interest in the chemistry and biology of RNAs.

Given the speed at which antibody therapy is becoming readily accepted, a comprehensive industry guide is sorely needed.

This book introduces human factors engineering (HFE) principles, guidelines, and design methods for medical device design.

This book comprehensively reviews the incorporation of different types of carbon-based nanomaterials for application in targeted and controlled drug delivery systems.

Many breakthroughs in experimental devices, advanced software, as well as analytical methods for systems biology development have helped shape the way we study DNA, RNA and proteins, on the genomic, transcriptional, translational and posttranslational level.

The book provides an overview of prospective material simulants for hard tissues, such as knee joints, hip joint, and bones, and soft tissues, such as skin, muscles, and functional organs.

Sustainability Engineering: Challenges, Technologies, and Applications focuses on emerging topics within sustainability science and engineering, including the circular economy, advanced recycling technologies, decarbonization, renewable energy, and waste valorization.

Marine environment is a habitant for several species and significantly plays an essential role in the food cycle and climate regulation.

This book presents the advancement of coating materials technology especially in agriculture, particularly for fertilizers.