Biology category: 3817 books
Chikungunya and Zika Viruses
Global Emerging Health Threats
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Chikungunya and Zika Viruses: Global Emerging Health Threats is the go-to resource for both historical and current information on this important virus that is rapidly increasing its global range. Epidemics since 2005 have spread from Africa and Asia, and through Europe, and an ongoing epidemic has...
Regulatory RNAs
Basics, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Recent progress in high-throughput technologies and genome wide transcriptome studies have lead to a significant scientific milestone of discovering non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) which spans through a major portion of the genome. These RNAs most often act as riboregulators, and actively participate in...
by Richard R. Sinden
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
DNA Structure and Function, a timely and comprehensive resource, is intended for any student or scientist interested in DNA structure and its biological implications. The book provides a simple yet comprehensive introduction to nearly all aspects of DNA structure. It also explains current ideas on...
by Randhir Singh
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Biotechnology is a relatively recent term that appeared for the first time around 1960. Its origin is the Greek word Bio meaning life, and Technology, which appeared in the French language in 1656 meaning the study of tools, machines and raw materials.
MicroRNA
Perspectives in Health and Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book explores the role of miRNA as therapeutic agents, the progress made in this direction and the problems that need to be addressed for miRNA based therapies to become successful. It also discusses the basic biology of miRNA sythesis, regulation, and their role in disease biology.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of a new scientific discipline termed Geroscience. Geroscience examines the molecular and cellular mechanisms that might explain why aging is the main risk factor for most chronic diseases affecting the elderly population. Over the past few decades,...
by Billy Dickson, Graham Moffat
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
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The Life Puzzle
On Crystals and Organisms and on the Possibility of a Crystal as an Ancestor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
What is the origin of life? Molecular biology shows us one kind, but in thinking about it we must consider those generalised aspects of living organisation that are common to all conceivable forms of life. The author believes that only a combination of general biological theory and particular chemical...
Transform Your Life And Save The World
Through The Dreamed Of Arrival Of The Rehabilitating Biological Explanation Of The Human Condition
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This is the Second Edition of Transform Your Life And Save The World following significant additions in June 2019. The book is supported by a very informative website at www.humancondition.com
The world is in crisis! What is the solution?
Ultimately, we have to find the redeeming, and...
by Troy Day, Sarah P. Otto
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Thirty years ago, biologists could get by with a rudimentary grasp of mathematics and modeling. Not so today. In seeking to answer fundamental questions about how biological systems function and change over time, the modern biologist is as likely to rely on sophisticated mathematical and computer-based...
A Nobel Fellow on Every Floor
A History of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In Cambridge in the 1950s, several research groups funded by the Medical Research Council were producing exciting results. In the Biochemistry Department, Sanger determined the amino acid sequence of insulin, and was awarded a Nobel Prize for this in 1958. At the Cavendish Laboratory, in the MRC Unit...
The Logic of Chance
The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
The Logic of Chance offers a reappraisal and a new synthesis of theories, concepts, and hypotheses on the key aspects of the evolution of life on earth in light of comparative genomics and systems biology. The author presents many specific examples from systems and comparative genomic analysis to...
by Chandan K. Sen, Lester Packer
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2002
The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. Now with...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This timely volume explores tissue-derived stem cells, summarizing and evaluating the current body of knowledge. Sixteen chapters cover hematopoietic, osteoblast, skeletal, cardiac, pancreatic, epithelial, corneal, hepatic, renal, testicular, ovarian, fingernail, hair follicle and other stem cells-...