Biotechnology

Cheese is a significant part of European culture and its production, both industrial and artisanal, is a significant economic activity.

In this book, the authors present in detail several recent methodologies and algorithms that we have developed during the last fifteen years.

Circuits, Signals, and Systems for Bioengineers: A MATLAB-Based Introduction, Fourth Edition, guides the reader through the electrical engineering principles that can be applied to biological systems.

This book provides detailed reviews of a range of nanostructures used in the construction of biosensors as well as the applications of these biosensor nanotechnologies in the biological, chemical, and environmental monitoring fields Biological sensing is a fundamental tool for understanding living systems, but also finds practical application in medicine, drug discovery, process control, food safety, environmental monitoring, defense, and personal security.

This book will be a comprehensive account of the various facets of nutraceuticals domain.

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passe theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between biology and liberal thought.

The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very meaning of health itself.

This book gives readers a practical introduction into machine learning and sensing techniques, their design and ultimately specific applications that could improve food production.

This textbook introduces readers in an accessible and engaging way to the nuts and bolts of protein expression and engineering.

Most books dedicated to the issues of bio-sensing are organized by the well-known scheme of a biosensor.

The interaction of microorganisms with geological activities results in processes influencing development of the Earth's geo- and biospheres.

Volume 7 of the Jenny Stanford Series on Biocatalysis deals with several different aspects of pharmaceuticals, which include not only various applications of drugs and their metabolism but also natural resources for active pharmaceutical ingredients as well as the removal of pharmaceutical pollution.

Biotechnology is rapidly being popular due to its multifarious applications.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion on the novel concepts in stem cell heterogeneity, from pluripotent stem cells to human mesenchymal stem cells, adult and cancer stem cells of the thyroid, sarcoma, and more.

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 cropping system is one of the important components of sustainable agriculture, since it provides more efficient nutrient cycling.

Energy and feedstock materials for the chemical industry show an increasing demand.

In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry predetermined molecular programs or blueprints is pervasive.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the advancements in wearable and implantable electrochemical sensors for monitoring neurological disorders.

The book provides valuable information on wild plants and their ethnopharmacological properties, discussion on ethnobotany, phytotherapy, diversity, chemical and pharmacological properties including antifungal, anti-inflammatory and antiprotozal properties.

This book defines tojisha manga as Japan's autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of a mental or neurological condition in a unique medium of text and image.

Electrofluidodynamic Technologies (EFDTs) for Biomaterials and Medical Devices: Principles and Advances focuses on the fundamentals of EFDTs - namely electrospinning, electrospraying and electrodynamic atomization - to develop active platforms made of synthetic or natural polymers for use in tissue engineering, restoration and therapeutic treatments.

This two-volume textbook provides a comprehensive overview on the broad field of Animal Biotechnology with a special focus on livestock reproduction and breeding.

This book serves as an introduction to graduate students and early career researchers on chemistry and botany of the cannabis plant.

Explores Biomedical Science from a Unique PerspectiveBiomaterials: A Basic Introduction is a definitive resource for students entering biomedical or bioengineering disciplines.

Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before.

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The Kingdom fungi encompass a massive diversity of taxa with wide-ranging ecologies, life cycles, and morphologies ranging from unicellular aquatic chytrids to large mushrooms.

This comprehensive laboratory manual describes the various protocols involved in Actinobacterial research.

Nanotechnology has shown great potential to alleviate increasing pressure to meet food needs for our increasing human population, Novel agricultural innovations are required to enhance the health of edible crops and per unit area yield without impacting the associated environment in a negative way.

Biodilution is also a process that occurs to all trophic levels in an aquatic environment; it is the opposite of biomagnification, thus a pollutant gets smaller in concentration as it progresses up a food web.

Algae Energy covers the production of algae culture and the usage of algal biomass conversion products.

The book explores Candida and candidiasis, and Aspergillus and aspergillosis, two significant fungal infectious diseases.

This volume provides detailed technical protocols on current biosensors and imaging technologies and Chapters focus on optical, electrochemical, Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) biosensors and on medical imaging technologies such as tomography, MRI, and NMR.

Design, Characterization and Fabrication of Polymer Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering covers core elements of scaffold design, from properties and characterization of polymeric scaffolds to fabrication techniques and the structure-property relationship.

Dressings for Advanced Wound Care focuses on helping the reader better understand advanced wound care and relevant technologies.

This book explores in depth a wide range of new biomaterials that hold great promise for applications in regenerative medicine.

Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 119 continues the comprehensive reach of this widely read and authoritative review source in microbiology.

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.

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This book covers all aspects of probiotic bacteria and their metabolites, as well as their role and significance in human and animal health.

Recently, the first "e;zoopharming"e; product has reached market approval: it is a recombinant human protein for medical use that is produced in the milk of transgenic goats.

This book gives a complete overview of current developments in nanotechnology-based environmental remediation and sustainable agriculture practices/sectors.

Large scale cultivation of macrofungi is possible with fermentation, using easily accessible lignocellulosic agricultural residues utilising economical methods to generate substantial biomass, food and biofuels.

Biotechnology refers to the use or manipulation of an organism or parts of an organism.

This book presents strategies and techniques highlighting the sustainability and application of microbial and agricultural biotechnologies to ensure food production and security.

This book covers all aspects of head-related transfer function (HRTF), from the fundamentals through to the latest applications, such as 3D sound systems.

Improving Health and Nutrition through Functional Foods: Benefits and Applications presents functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being.