Biotechnology

Plant and Algal Hydrogels for Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine offers a materials-focused and systematic overview of biopolymeric hydrogels utilized for biomedical applications.

This book highlights some of the latest advances in nanotechnology and nanomaterials from leading researchers in Ukraine, Europe and beyond.

This book presents various practical breakthroughs of 3D printing (3DP) technologies in developing different types of tool and gadgets to be used against COVID-19 pandemic.

This book provides the vision of a successful biorefinery the lignocelluloic biomass needs to be efficiently converted to its constituent monomers, comprising mainly of sugars such as glucose, xylose, mannose and arabinose.

This book discusses the stages involved in pharmaceutical product development including the importance, requirement, and effect of each stage and process.

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Biological Treatment of Industrial Effluents provides extensive coverage of new developments, state-of-the-art technologies, and potential future trends in data-based scientific knowledge and advanced information on the role and application of environmental biotechnology and engineering in the treatment of industrial effluents.

This book on 3D printing in oral health science aims to equip the reader with a sound understanding of contemporary clinical applications in all fields of dentistry and their future directions.

This textbook introduces to the basic concepts of bioinformatics and enhances students' skills in using software and tools relevant for investigations in microbiology.

This book focuses on biomedical applications of polarized light, covering instrumentation and modeling specific to the field.

Designer Animals is an in-depth study of the debates surrounding the development of animal biotechnology, which is quickly emerging out of the laboratory and into the commercial marketplace.

This updated text explains how advances in mammalian and plant genetics contribute to better therapeutics agents and more wholesome foods.

This book reviews the most recent developments in the field of osteochondral tissue engineering (OCTE) and presents challenges and strategies being developed that face not only bone and cartilage regeneration, but also establish osteochondral interface formation in order to translate it into a clinical setting.

This book presents an overview of fundamental aspects of surface-based biosensors and techniques for enhancing their detection sensitivity and speed.

Diagnostics are essential components of the healthcare and medical industry.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable and smart agriculture, as presented by leading  researchers at the XII Farm Machinery and Processes Management in Sustainable Agriculture (FMPMSA), held in Lublin, Poland, on June 12-14, 2024.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to discovering, assessing, and utilizing consortia of beneficial microbes for crop protection and enhanced crop production in the context of climate change.

This book comprehensively describes the biological underpinnings of red meat production, discussing the current state of the science in the context of the provision of red meat products perceived by consumers to offer a quality eating experience.

Biotechnology has been labelled as one of the key technologies of the last two decades of the 20th Century, offering boundless solutions to problems ranging from food and agricultural production to pharmaceutical and medical applications, as well as environmental and bioremediation problems.

Only in recent years new available technologies, the redefinition and refining of intervention techniques, and clinical research studies have widened the spectrum of fat applications in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery.

Next-Generation Antimicrobial Nanocoatings for Medical Devices and Implants provides a detailed, up-to-date overview of nano-based antimicrobial coatings used to combat medical device-related biofilms.

Membrane techniques are an excellent alternative to traditional methods of purification and separation.

This book features the reduction and removal of selenium in wastewater via bioremediation.

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.

Humans have numerous microorganisms residing in the body, especially in the gut, far exceeding the human body's normal mammalian cells.

This book provides comprehensive, authoritative descriptions of the microbes involved in cleaning up oil spills and degrading climate-altering hydrocarbons such as methane, and has detailed discussions about the taxonomy, ecology, genomics, physiology and global significance of these hydrocarbon-degrading microbes.

Published since 1959, Advances in Applied Microbiology continues to be one of the most widely read and authoritative review sources in microbiology.

This book brings together international experts from a wide variety of disciplines, in order to understand the impact that digital technologies have had on our well-being as well as our understanding of what it means to live a life that is good for us.

This book provides thorough coverage of high-throughput OMICs technologies for the monitoring of stem cells and regenerative medicine.

This book reviews the latest developments in our understanding of microbial endophytes and their potential applications in enhancing productivity and disease protection.

This book summarizes the recent advancements for biomechanics of injury and prevention in mechanism, application and developing frontiers.

Asiatic Momordica comprises 10 species of which 3 are monoecious and rest dioecious.

The vision of this book is to bring together examples of grounded geographic research carried out in Latin America regarding territorial processes.

The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a generic measure of health effect that can be used in cost-effectiveness analysis as an alternative to the quality-adjusted life year (QALY).

Biotechnology, an allied subject of biology, is also associated with its neighboring subject areas, such as: biochemistry, biophysics, biostatistics, pharmacology, cell biology, molecular biology, clinical biology, genomics and proteomics and nanotechnology, which makes this subject an advanced area in medical and health sciences.

Clinical Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, covers modern clinical engineering topics, giving experienced professionals the necessary skills and knowledge for this fast-evolving field.

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), directly related to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, presents a crisis in contact sports, the military, and public health.

Substantially revising and updating the classic reference in the field, this handbook offers a valuable overview and myriad details on current chemical processes, products, and practices.

Extensively revised and updated, Antisense Drug Technology: Principles, Strategies, and Applications, Second Edition reflects the logarithmic progress made in the past four years of oligonucleotide-based therapies, and, in particular, antisense therapeutics and research.

Chaetomium genus was established by Gustav Kunze in 1817.

This invaluable resource discusses clinical applications with effects and side-effects of applications of stem cells in diabetes, kidney and wound treatment.

From breakfast toast to evening wine, yeast is the microscopic thing that we cannot live without.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current challenges and strategies to regenerate load-bearing and calcified human tissues, including bone, cartilage,tendon, ligaments and dental structures (dentin, enamel, cementum and periodontal ligament).

Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of mortality in the western world and about half of these deaths are caused by coronary artery disease.

Since the publication of the first edition of Canada, and Australia have increased teach- Handbook of Powder Science and Technology, ing, research, and training activities in areas the field of powder science and technology has related to particle science and technology.

This book covers all the aspects of food-grade enzymes, including their classification, kinetics, microbial production, biosynthetic pathways, commodity-wise industrial applications, and downstream processing strategies.

Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality.

Modern biotechnology refers to various scientific techniques used to produce specific desired traits in plants, animals or microorganisms through the use of genetic knowledge.

Advances in Trichoderma Biology for Agricultural Applications covers the beneficial properties of Trichoderma in enhancing global agricultural productivity.

This compendium gives a comprehensive overview of the advances in fibrillation-defibrillation knowledge - recognition of fibrillation as a unique life threatening cardiac arrhythmia; discovery of the electric discharge in its double role of culprit and savior; and technological improved contributions.

In 1993, the genetic mutation responsible for Huntington's disease (HD) was identified.