Biochemical engineering

With the erratic changes in climate, crop plants are facing many forms of biotic stresses.

In order to feed the world, global agriculture will have to double food production by 2050.

Molecular farming is a biotechnological approach that includes the genetic adjustment of agricultural products to create proteins and chemicals for profitable and pharmaceutical purposes.

The field of nanotechnology for targeted therapy initiated more than decade ago has grown fast and interest is increasing.

This book reviews the advances in data gathering and processing in the biotech laboratory environment, and it sheds new lights on the various aspects that are necessary for the implementation of intelligent laboratory architecture and infrastructure.

This book surveys the distinctions that underlie the unbound potential and existential risks of life expansion and radical modifications posed by a transhuman world.

This book studies the dramatic changes in consumption patterns in Vietnam over the past decades, combining a focus on everyday practices and societal transformations.

This handbook examines the psychology of fatherhood throughout the lifespan and across multiple contexts.

This book is the first authoritative medical text that considers the unique cultural backgrounds of Hispanic populations in a straightforward yet sensitive way, all while building a framework for practical psychiatric assessment and treatment plans.

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This contributed volume explores the ways in which researchers engineer new biomaterials for the challenging problems of the peripheral and central nervous systems.

This book is about Saffron (Crocus sativus L.

This book presents deliberations on molecular and genomic mechanisms underlying the interactions of crop plants to the abiotic stresses caused by heat, cold, drought, flooding, submergence, salinity, acidity, etc.

This book discusses the microbiology of fermentation for the production of bioethanol from sugarcane.

This work is the first compilation of comprehensive deliberations on botany, cytogenetics and sex determination, genetic resources and diversity, classical breeding, molecular markers and genome sequence resources, and application of omics technology including transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics resources in the multipurpose medicinal plant seabuckthorn.

Quantum dots (QDs) are important in the research and industrial fields due to their diverse properties and technological importance.

This book presents nanomaterials for cancer detection using a variety of state-of-the-art imaging techniques.

This book focuses on understanding biomimetic architecture and its role as a sustainable design tool.

This book highlights the reasons for an urgently needed revision of the current global healthcare setup, discusses the needed mindset for a future of health, and provides a comprehensive development toolset for disruption (and for the needed incremental innovations towards disruption).

Biotic stresses cause yield loss of 31-42% in crops in addition to 6-20% during post-harvest stage.

This book looks at chemmotological solutions to important questions surrounding sustainability and environmental safety of transport - both key priorities within the global strategy of sustainable development.

Over the last few decades, various techniques have been developed to alter the properties of plants and animals.

This book provides an authoritative overview of emerging pollutants in sewage sludge and soils.

This book revisits the modern history of Poland, from the perspective of its social sciences.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current biosurfactant research and applications.

This book explores different aspects of entrepreneurship from both an academic and a commercial point of view.

This book is the first attempt for in-depth compilation of current knowledge on cisgenic crops and their  potential prospects as a sustainable substitute for the controversial genetically modified crops.

This edited volume emphasizes how microorganisms have become a reliable pillar of biotechnology.

This book looks at chemmotological solutions to important questions surrounding sustainability and environmental safety of transport - both key priorities within the global strategy of sustainable development.

The book focuses on biomedical innovations related to the diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea.

The book reviews the history, present, and likely future of intellectual property for plant-related inventions.

This handbook addresses treatment planning for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) using a medical home perspective.

This textbook covers the basic aspects of stem cell research and applications in regenerative medicine.

This 2nd book provides fundamental concepts and recent applications of biotechnological methods, such as genetic selection, breeding methods and genetic engineering tools.

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 book examines the effects of social relations during primary school on children's neurobiology and pathways to maladaptation.

This interdisciplinary book covers the fundamentals of optical whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities, light-matter interaction, and biomolecular structure with a focus on applications in biosensing.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the latest developments, challenges and trends in C1-based (one-carbon based) bioproduction, and it presents an authoritative account of one-carbon compounds as promising alternative microbial feedstocks.

This book presents deliberations on molecular and genomic mechanisms underlying the interactions of crop plants to the abiotic stresses caused by heat, cold, drought, flooding, submergence, salinity, acidity, etc.

This book will expound the latest information on the current state of persimmon genomics and transcriptomics, with a particular focus on the latest findings and analysis in relation to the most important agronomic traits.

This book describes emerging and established industrial processes of biomining technologies used for the recovery of metals of economic interest from, e.

There is a growing interest in unmet needs for the development of a new discipline in drug discovery and in university education on polypharmacology.

This book provides a concise-yet-comprehensive overview of the broad-ranging topics in the field of violence and aggression.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the application level for various agricultural biotechnologies across Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book and its 2 sister books (Volumes 2 and 3) of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering (HEE) series have been designed to serve as a mini-series covering agricultural and green biotechnologies.

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.

This book explores recent advances in the microbial production of xylitol and its applications in food and medical sector.

Antifungal Metabolites of Rhizobacteria for Sustainable Agriculture focuses on plant health in agro-ecosystems of various economically important cash and food crops with a concern to promote sustainable agriculture.

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

This book explains how peptide-based drug design works, what steps are needed to develop a peptide-based therapeutic, and challenges in synthesis as well as regulatory issues.