Biochemical engineering

This book delves into the recent developments in the microscale and microfluidic technologies that allow manipulation at the single and cell aggregate level.

This book covers the most recent advances in using nanoparticles for biomedical imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic particle imaging (MPI), nuclear medicine, ultrasound (US) imaging, computed tomography (CT), and optical imaging.

This book describes the importance of catalysis for the sustainable production of biofuels and biochemicals, focusing primarily on the state-of-the-art catalysts and catalytic processes expected to play a decisive role in the "e;green"e; production of fuels and chemicals from biomass.

Setaria viridis and S.

Ferns, collectively, represent an ancient species of vascular plant which has a direct connection to the beginning of life on Earth.

This book collates the most up to date information on Fragaria, and Rubus genomes.

This book is the first comprehensive volume on the genetics and genomics of pineapple and provides an overview of the current state of pineapple research.

Reviews in Fluorescence 2017, the tenth volume of the book serial from Springer, serves as a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of fluorescence and closely related disciplines, such as fluorescence based plasmonics.

Reviews in Fluorescence 2016, the tenth volume of the book serial from Springer, serves as a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of fluorescence and closely related disciplines.

This volume provides a state-of-art-report on the new methodologies in tissue engineering and developments in the biomaterials field based on the extracellular matrix-relevant discovery.

This book will provide assistance to the broad range of readers involved in the crude oil import and production; renewable energy production; biomass analysis and bioconversion; greenhouse gas emissions; techno-economic analysis and government policies for implementing biofuels in India.

This book outlines the production of chitooligossacharides and their derivatives and discusses their main biological activities, biomedical applications and their role in disease prevention.

3D printing is forecast to revolutionise the pharmaceutical sector, changing the face of medicine development, manufacture and use.

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.

It is well established that certain strains of yeasts are suitable for transforming grape sugars into alcohol, while other yeast strains are not suitable for grape fermentations.

The past 30 years have seen the emergence of a growing desire worldwide that positive actions be taken to restore and protect the environment from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution - air, water, soil, and noise.

This book is the first comprehensive volume on conifers detailing their genomes, variations, and evolution.

Cold stress is one of the prevalent environmental stresses affecting crop productivity, particularly in temperate regions.

This introductory text explains both the basic science and the applications of biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals, with special emphasis on their clinical use.

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.