Biochemical engineering

This fully revised third edition includes up-to-date topics and developments in the field, which has made tremendous strides since the publication of the second edition in 2004.

This monograph is devoted to full-scale geoecological risk assessment in gas industry impacted polar areas and the relevant risk management options using innovative nature-like biogeochemical technologies.

This book is the first comprehensive overview of the emerging field of cuffless blood pressure monitoring.

This book gathers full papers presented at the VipIMAGE 2019-VII ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing-held on October 16-18, 2019, in Porto, Portugal.

Food security, crop protection, biodiversity, and human and environmental health are among the main needs and concerns of society.

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

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

This comprehensive volume covers recent studies into agricultural problems caused by soil and water contamination.

 This book provides an up-to-date review and analysis of the carrot's nuclear and organellar genome structure and evolution.

This book covers the state-of-the-art research on advanced high-resolution tomography, exploring its role in regenerative medicine.

Advances in molecular biology and genome research in the form of molecular breeding and genetic engineering put forward innovative prospects for improving productivity of many pulses crops.

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

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

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

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

This book introduces many new technologies and clinical applications of hematopoietic stem cells and mesenchymal stem cell transplantation for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and inflammatory diseases.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the microbiological fundamentals and biotechnological applications of methanotrophs: aerobic proteobacteria that can utilize methane as their sole carbon and energy source.

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

The book explores the state of the art in the mechanics of fibrous media, providing an overview of the theoretical, modelling and practical aspects of designing and working with these materials.

This volume explores pericytes' roles under distinct pathological conditions, ranging from tumors, ALS, Alzheimer's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, stroke, diabetes, atherosclerosis, muscular dystrophies and more.

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

Dothistroma pini changed New Zealand commercial forestry dramatically.

This revised and extended edition provides in-depth insights into the benefits and untapped potential of lichen-derived bioactive compounds.

These are the proceedings of the International Conference on ISMAC-CVB, held in Palladam, India, in May 2018.

This book introduces the reader to synthetic or artificial seeds, which refer to alginate encapsulated somatic embryos, vegetative buds or any other micropropagules that can be used as seeds and converted into plantlets after propagating under in vitro or in vivo conditions.

Due to the huge quantity and diverse nature of their metabolic pathways, fungi have great potential to be used for the production of different biofuels such as bioethanol, biobutanol, and biodiesel.

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

This book explores the fabrication of soft material and biomimetic MEMS sensors, presents a review of MEMS/NEMS energy harvesters and self-powered sensors, and focuses on the recent efforts in developing flexible and wearable piezoelectric nanogenerators.

Cardiovascular diseases are still the leading cause of death in developed countries.

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

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.

This book covers the latest research in biofilm, infection, and antimicrobial strategies in reducing and treating musculoskeletal, skin, transfusion, implant-related infections, etc.

This book provides in-depth insights into the regulatory frameworks of five countries and the EU concerning the regulation of genome edited plants.

This book addresses Synthetic Biology (SynBio), a new and promising biotechnology that has attracted much interest from both a scientific and a policy perspective.

This volume provides a series of review articles that capture the advances in using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, model system to address a wide range of cancer-related topics.

This is a comprehensive handbook which for the first time provides a general yet detailed discussion of contemporary Islam and various aspects of Muslim lives.

This textbook introduces marine biotechnology by collecting the key knowledge on genetics, fish breeding, genetic diversity, seaweed production and microalgae biotechnology, and explores marine biomaterials and how they can benefit human health.

The generation of well-defined nanoparticles of excellent size and shape involves physical and chemical methodologies that are complicated, expensive, and produce hazardous toxic waste that is harmful to the environment and to human health.

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

This book provides deep insights about the fundamentals, applications and perspectives of the use of supercritical CO2 as solvent and antisolvent for biorefinering.

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

The timely volume describes recent discoveries and method developments that have revolutionized Structural Biology with the advent of X-ray Free Electron Lasers.

Carolyn's parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab.

This Microbiology Monographs volume covers the latest advances in laccase applications in bioremediation and waste valorisation.

This book presents a compilation of state-of-the-art work on biomedical and cyber-physical systems in connection with the Internet of Things, and successfully blends theory and practice.

3D bioprinting is an emerging innovative technology that involves the fabrication of essential 3D functional biomedical constructs by combining cells and biomaterials with vital growth and differentiation factors.

The cannabinoid system plays a central role in a wide variety of physiological functions that touch upon cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, immune, and nervous systems.

This reference work provides a comprehensive review of cell and tissue differentiation and its role in the formation of specific secondary metabolites.

This well-structured textbook offers essential knowledge on the vascular system.

This book presents the Proceedings of ICON-2019, an international meeting exclusively dedicated to nanostructured materials in medicinal applications.