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Biology for Open Minds
Student's working edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
People across the world are facing, both personally and collectively, choices that will be shaped by their understanding of Biology. Should I become a vegan? Is it healthy? Would it help preserve our environment? Should I take an oral contraceptive, daily, for several years? How will the physical...
Crumbling Genome
The Impact of Deleterious Mutations on Humans
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A thought-provoking exploration of deleterious mutations in the human genome and their effects on human health and wellbeing
Despite all of the elaborate mechanisms that a cell employs to handle its DNA with the utmost care, a newborn human carries about 100 new mutations, originated in their...
From Aardvarks to Zooxanthellae
The Definitive Lyrical Guide to Nature’s Ways
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Hundreds of animal species provide the cast of characters for these newly composed bio-limericks, arranged into 17 chapters by taxonomic group (such as Birds, Fishes, Insects) or biological subject (such as Ecology, Genetics, and Anthropology). Sometimes multiple verses on one organism or topic...
Genomics and Bioinformatics
An Introduction to Programming Tools for Life Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
With the arrival of genomics and genome sequencing projects, biology has been transformed into an incredibly data-rich science. The vast amount of information generated has made computational analysis critical and has increased demand for skilled bioinformaticians. Designed for biologists without...
The Origins of Evolutionary Innovations
A Theory of Transformative Change in Living Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
The history of life is a nearly four billion year old story of transformative change. This change ranges from dramatic macroscopic innovations such as the evolution of wings or eyes, to a myriad of molecular changes that form the basis of macroscopic innovations. We are familiar with many examples...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This textbook has been conceptualized to provide a detailed description of the various aspects of Systems and Synthetic Biology, keeping the requirements of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in mind. Also, it is hoped that this book will mentor young scientists who are willing to contribute to this area but...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book introduces students to methods that will help them understand behaviour in terms of cellular components and their interactions in non-intuitive ways, which calls for an interdisciplinary approach combining mathematical, chemical, computational and biological strategies. Tibor Ganti was...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Gene function annotation has been a central question in molecular biology. The importance of computational function prediction is increasing because more and more large scale biological data, including genome sequences, protein structures, protein-protein interaction data, microarray expression data,...
Reproductive and Developmental Strategies
The Continuity of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book provides new insights into the universality of biological systems in animal reproduction and development by a comparative study of a variety of mechanisms in animals ranging from basal invertebrates to vertebrates, including mammals.
Animals accomplish genetic diversity through meiosis...
Cell Fusion in Health and Disease
II: Cell Fusion in Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Although cell fusion is an omnipresent process in life, to date considerably less is still known about the mechanisms and the molecules being involved in this biological phenomenon in higher organisms. In Cell Fusion in Health and Disease Vol 1 & Vol 2 leading experts will present up-to-date overviews...
Contextualizing Systems Biology
Presuppositions and Implications of a New Approach in Biology
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This collective monograph aims at contributing to an improved understanding of the epistemic presumptions, sociocultural implications and historically backgrounds of the newly emerging and currently expanding approach of systems biology. In doing so, it offers empirically grounded, valuable and reflexive...
The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2013
Person Subject Organism- An Overview of Interdisciplinary Insights
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The main topic of the volume encompasses three areas of phenomenological research: person, subject, and organism. These three topics are interrelated in various ways. On the one hand, the question is Husserlian phenomenology of personhood and subjectivity, and on the other hand, it is a broader problem...
Biology and Criminology
The Biosocial Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
Numerous criminologists have noted their dissatisfaction with the state of criminology. The need for a new paradigm for the 21st century is clear. However, many distrust biology as a factor in studies of criminal behavior, whether because of limited exposure or because the orientation of criminology...
The Living Clock
The Orchestrator of Biological Rhythms
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
From one-celled paramecium to giant blue whales, we all have internal clocks that regulate the rhythms we live by. In The Living Clock, John Palmer, one of the world's leading authorities on these rhythms, takes us on a tour of this broad and multifaceted subject, examining everything from glowing...