Biotechnology

This book discusses the history, physics, fundamental principles, sensing technologies, and characterization of plasmonic phenomenon-based fiber-optic biosensors, using optic-plasmonic sensors as a case study.

This book highlights treatment strategies for bacterial biofilms in connection with a variety of human diseases.

Describes the properties of cellular membranes and their relationship with fundamental biological processes.

Almost all synthetic materials over time induce some level of inflammation and fibrosis.

During teaching NMR to students and researchers, we felt the need for a text-book which can cover modern trends in the application of NMR to biological systems.

This book comprehensively reviews various nanodiagnostic approaches for the detection of bacterial pathogens.

This book provides an indispensable reference guide to the sustainable control and treatment of biomass residues from a wide variety of agroindustrial sources, e.

Biodiversity or Biological diversity is a term that describes the variety of living beings on earth.

Materials from renewable resources are receiving increased attention, as leading industries and manufacturers attempt to replace declining petrochemical-based feedstocks with products derived from natural biomass, such as cereal straws.

This textbook teaches the principles and applications of fermentation technology, bioreactors, bioprocess variables and their measurement, key product separation and purification techniques as well as bioprocess economics in an easy to understand way.

This book reports on the latest advances in complex and nonlinear cardiovascular physiology aimed at  obtaining reliable, effective markers for the assessment of heartbeat, respiratory, and blood pressure dynamics.

Aesthetic or cosmetic gynecology is a rapidly expanding and much in demand field worldwide.

This book compiles andexplores cutting-edge research in degenerative skeletal disorders, such asDuchenne muscular dystrophy and congenital myopathy, and new stem-cell basedtherapies and gene replacement therapy.

Conventional agriculture has attempted to exploit arable land by applying chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water.

Covers the basic computer analyses used for new DNA sequences and attempts to provide the researcher with the necessary background in order to understand and use efficiently these programs.

This second volume of a two-volume work reviews beneficial bioactive compounds from various microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, cyanobacteria in plant diseases management and the postharvest management of fruits using microbial antagonists.

Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development.

The Saccharinae clade of the Poaceae (grass) family of flowering plants includes several important crops with a rich history of contributions to humanity and the promise of still-greater contributions, as a result of some of the highest biomass productivity levels known, resilience to drought and other environmental challenges that are likely to increase, amenability to production systems that may mitigate or even reverse losses of ecological capital such as topsoil erosion, and the recent blossoming of sorghum as a botanical and genomic model for the clade.

This volume discusses how plant and algae organisms play a pivotal role in the transformation of solar energy to essential metabolites, and explores the numerous beneficial roles these metabolites have at an industrial level.

This reference book compiles the latest techniques and applications of microbiome engineering.

Pandemics are often associated with viruses and bacteria occurring in wildlife in natural environments.

Describes the state-of-the-art techniques and methods involved in the design, operation, preparation and containment of bioreactor systems, taking into account the interrelated effects of variables associated with both upstream and downstream stages of the design process.

Chemistry and Technology of Plant Substances: Chemical and Biochemical Aspects demonstrates the progress and promise of developing new chemical substances from renewable sources of chemical raw materials.

This contributed volume presents the current state of research on regenerative rehabilitation across a broad range of neuro- and musculoskeletal tissues.

Stemming from an 11-year DFID funded programme under its Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS), Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into Low Income Countries reviews part of this programme as a case study of a broader issue of technology development for Africa.

Palms are monocots, Angiosperms, belonging to the family Palmae (Arecaceae), perennials having woody stems.

This book focuses on various aspects of nanotechnology based gene silencing.

The title of this volume, Plant Biotechnology: Nell' Products and Applications, may look a little out of place among previous vol- umes of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology that have focused mostly on issues related to human health and ani- mal biology, However, plant biology has always been of immense and has enjoyed an intimate relationship practical importance, with medicine and other biological sciences for centuries, In- creasing scientific specialization and the dramatic advances in the medical and chemical sciences during this century have left many persons with the impression that plant biology and plant bio- technology is important only in relation to the agricultural sci- ences, This is no longer true.

This text provides the reader with tools necessary to study biological and bio-inspired flows, all the while developing an appreciation for their evolutionary and engineering constraints.

Algae play an important ecological role as oxygen producers and carbon sequesters and are the food base for all aquatic life.

Deals with the historical perspectives and the current status of doubled haploid production along with its practical implications in basic and applied research.

Immunosensors are widely used and are particularly important for fast diagnosis of diseases in remote environments as well as point-of-care devices.

Find out how biotechnology can produce more nutritious fruits and vegetables, more colorful flowers, and grass that needs less waterand mowing!

This book illustrates the influence of biomimetics in the field of tissue engineering and drug delivery.

Security in IoT Social Networks takes a deep dive into security threats and risks, focusing on real-world social and financial effects.

This comprehensive reference is a state-of-the-art survey of biomass as an energy carrier for the provision of heat, electricity, and transportation fuel, considering technical, economic, environmental, and social aspects.

The transportation industry is still largely reliant on fossil fuels, whose use and extraction have significant environmental costs.

Web Semantics strengthen the description of web resources to exploit them better and make them more meaningful for both humans and machines, thereby contributing to the development of a knowledgeintensive data web.

Detection and Analysis of SARS Coronavirus Detecting and analyzing the COVID-19 pandemic with biosensor technology The highly contagious SARS CoV-2 pathogen has challenged health systems around the world as they struggle to detect and monitor the spread of the pathogen.

This laboratory manual gives a thorough introduction to basic techniques in Molecular Biology, which can find application in many different fields.

This book describes how genomics has revolutionized our understanding of agriculturally important plant-associated fungi.

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to 3D printing and biofabrication and covers the recent advances in additive manufacturing for tissue engineering.

Practical Pharmaceutics contains essential knowledge on the preparation, quality control, logistics, dispensing and use of medicines.

This volume explores the latest metabolic flux analysis (MFA) techniques that cover the analysis of cellular, organ level, and whole-body metabolism.

This book presents a systematic overview of the technologies currently being explored and utilized in the fields of cardiovascular tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

This book provides a comprehensive description of theories and applications of high-solid and multi-phase bioprocess engineering, which is considered as an important way to address the challenges of "e;high energy consumption, high pollution and high emissions"e; in bio-industry.

This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings.