Biotechnology

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

This volume explores novel concepts of pericyte biology.

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

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

This book challenges the perception of the psychiatric chart as a neutral and objective text.

This book focuses on the importance and roles of seed microbiomes in sustainable agriculture by exploring the diversity of microbes vectored on and within seeds of both cultivated and non-cultivated plants.

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

This work is to compile our current knowledge on GY phytoplasma biology at the genomic, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics level, as well as to summarize the approaches for their detection.

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the governance of biotechnology in post-Soviet Russia.

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 book studies the production of indole alkaloids in the important medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus (L.

Plant classifications are based on morphological characters and it is difficult, particularly in small plants and grasses, to identify these below generic level on the basis of these characters using a dissecting microscope.

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

This book presents a unique concept of merging nanotechnology and novel urinary biomarkers for accurate early prostate cancer detection, discussing an entire progressive pipeline of innovative new strategies in biosensor development, from a simple colorimetric system to a complex system for simultaneous multiple biomarker sensing.

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 commemorates the scientific contributions of distinguished statistician, Andrei Yakovlev.

This book covers the key basics of tissue engineering as well as the latest advances in the integration of both antimicrobial and osteoinductive properties.

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

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

The genotype/phenotype dichotomy is being slowly replaced by a more complex relationship whereby the majority of phenotypes arise from interactions between one's genotype and the environment in which one lives.

This book is aimed to summarise the key aspects of the role of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in breast cancer, with special attention to their contribution to tumour progression and establishment of metastatic disease.

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

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

Designed for new scholars, this book features a quick and easy-to-read discussion of ethnobotany along with its major developments.

This book offers a clearly written and highly accessible account of two different aspects of carbohydrate chemistry.

This work was compiled to serve as a convenient source that covers a number of techniques (and details of their use) in the rather large field of nanomedicine, with special attention paid to gene delivery.

This book provides an expert overview on ion channel-related arrhythmia mechanisms, and describes important advances in our understanding of how ion channel dysfunction causes cardiac disease.

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

This book presents cutting-edge research and applications of deep learning in a broad range of medical imaging scenarios, such as computer-aided diagnosis, image segmentation, tissue recognition and classification, and other areas of medical and healthcare problems.

During the past 15 years, cellular and molecular approaches have emerged as valuable adjuncts to supplement and complement conventional breeding methods for a wide variety of crop plants.

This book offers insights into the recent research focusing on green solutions to address environmental pollution and its impacts.

During the past 15 years, cellular and molecular approaches have emerged as valuable adjuncts to supplement and complement conventional breeding methods for a wide variety of crop plants.

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

This book provides in-depth insights into the biology, taxonomy, genetics, physiology and biotechnological applications of Actinobacteria.

This authoritative reference presents the modern concepts of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and biomaterials as they pertain to the dental field.

The biorefinery, integration of processes and technologies for biomass conversion, demands efficient utilization of all components.

Soil salinity is a key abiotic-stress and poses serious threats to crop yields and quality of produce.

The principal objective of this book is to provide information needed to define human thermal behavior quantitatively.

This book covers multi-scale biomechanics for oncology, ranging from cells and tissues to whole organ.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on biotechnological applications of unicellular and multicellular fungi in a variety of industrial branches.

This book describes how microbes can be used as effective and sustainable resources to meet the current challenge of finding suitable and economical solutions for biopharmaceuticals, enzymes, food additives, nutraceuticals, value added biochemicals and microbial fuels, and discusses various aspects of microbial regulatory activity and its applications.

This book discusses cancers and the resurgence of public interest in plant-based and herbal drugs.

This book focuses on cartilage defects and new mesenchymal stem cell-based treatments for their repair and regeneration.

This volume describes important functions and roles of micro RNAs in the vasculature in health, disease, therapeutics and diagnostics.

This contributed volume provides insights into multiple applications using microbes to promote productivity in agriculture, to produce biochemicals or to respond to challenges in biomedicine.

This book covers biological synthesis approaches for nanomaterials and nanoparticles, including introductory material on their structure, phase compositions and morphology, nanomaterials chemical, physical, and biological properties.

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Microbes are ubiquitous in nature.