Biochemical engineering

Political parties run by entrepreneurs as a means to their own end are a recent phenomenon found in many countries, and their electoral influence has never been greater.

Fungi are eukaryotic microorganisms that include both unicellular and multicellular species.

Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commerical export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality.

This book covers nanotechnology based approaches for improving the therapeutic efficacy of natural products.

This edited book comprises of eight chapters dealing on various aspects of pharmaceutical technology for delivery of natural products.

In this concise but authoritative book, the authors take the reader through the epidemiology, risk factors and the basic mechanism of coronary artery disease.

The effects of climate change are beginning to be felt around the world with rising temperatures, changing precipitation levels, more frequent and severe storms and longer more intensive droughts threatening human life and livelihoods and damaging property and infrastructure.

Starch is one of the most important natural and biodegradable polymers on Earth.

Medicinal plants are globally valuable sources of herbal products.

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine is a new, interdisciplinary branch of science that combines knowledge from numerous scientific fields including biology, biochemistry, physics, chemistry, applied engineering, and medicine.

This handbook examines the recent advances in the nanotechnology of polymers and ceramics, which possess outstanding mechanical properties and compatibility given their unique physical and chemical properties caused by the unusually large surface area to volume ratios and high interfacial reactivity.

This book offers an authoritative review of biopharmaceuticals and their clinical relevance.

In the pursuit of technological advancement in the field of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries to counteract health issues, bacterial infections remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality.

This book presents various aspects of salt and drought stress signaling in crops, combining physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies.

Revealing essential roles of the tumor microenvironment in cancer progression, this volume focuses on the extracellular matrix components of the tumor during cancer development.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 30th Scientific-Experts Conference of Agriculture and Food Industry, held on September 26-27, 2019, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Agriculture is considered as a backbone of developing nations as it caters the needs of the people, directly or indirectly.

This book presents a comprehensive overview on origin, structure, properties, modification strategies and applications of the biopolymer lignin.

Allelopathic studies may be defined in various aspects; weed against weed/crop and vice versa.

This updated second edition covers the molecular biology, genome engineering tools and comprehensive analysis techniques for Corynebacterium glutamicum.

Nanotechnology is the application of science to control matter at the molecular level.

The world's population is expected to reach the eight billion mark very soon.

This book highlights the latest findings on fundamental aspects of composting, the interaction of various microorganisms, and the underlying mechanisms.

This comprehensive guide to potato production systems management contains 20 chapters and more than 350 color photographs.

Agriculture and industry are the two most important economic sectors for various countries around the globe, providing millions of jobs as well as being the main source of income for these countries.

The agricultural sector of medicinal (including plant stimulants) and aromatic plants is characterized by an enormous number and diversity of species.

This book provides a comprehensive review of recent developments in the field of motor neuroprosthetics and brain-machine interfaces.

This edited book explores the use of technology to enable us to visualise the life sciences in a more meaningful and engaging way.

This book offers a timely snapshot of computational methods applied to the study of bone tissue.

This book presents the most up-to-date technologies for the transformation of biomass into valuable fuels, chemicals, materials, and products.

This book presents a mechanistic approach-mathematical modeling-for carrying out dental materials research.

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

This volume is a compendium of selected plant species of ethnobotanical value to the highland communities of popular Southeast Asia.

This reference work provides an authoritative and comprehensive review of the latest developments in orchids' biology, biotechnology and phytochemistry, and it also explores the applications of orchids in medicinal chemistry, nutrition and cosmetics industry.

This book encompasses the current knowledge of plant microbiomes and their potential biotechnological application for plant growth, crop yield and soil health for sustainable agriculture.

Revealing essential roles of the tumor microenvironment in cancer progression, this volume focuses on non-hematopoietic cells within the tumor microenvironment.

This book covers emerging trends in signal processing research and biomedical engineering, exploring the ways in which signal processing plays a vital role in applications ranging from medical electronics to data mining of electronic medical records.

This new edition focuses on modeling and manufacturing in the field of prototyping and bio manufacturing.

This second edition maintains a focus on integrated biomaterials, computer-aided design, and physical prototyping techniques as examples of the materials and applications that are found in medical environments.

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.

This volume discusses recent research advances in cancer biology, focusing on the role of the tumor microenvironment.

This textbook covers all the steps in manufacturing a biomedical product from bench to bedside.

This is the first book portraying to a wide readership many fields of DNA in the world of materials altogether in a single volume.

This book presents current laboratory, scientific and clinical aspects of nanomaterials used for medical applications in the fields of regenerative medicine, dentistry and pharmacy.

This book comprises a series of lectures given by celebrated Soviet neurophysiologist Nikolai Alexandrovich Bernstein in Moscow in 1925 and first published in Russian in 1926.

This book provides an account of the classical and recent trends in plant sciences, which have contributed for disease management strategies in plants for sustainable agriculture.

This contributed volume reviews the latest advances on relevant 3D tissue engineered in vitro models of disease making use of biomaterials and microfluidics.

This book reviews the latest research on bioproducts from various economically important insects, such as silkworms, honey bees, lac and drosophila, and termites, and discusses their general, biomedical and industrial applications in detail.

The population of the world continues to increase at an alarming rate.

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.