Biotechnology

Laboratory Design Handbook..

This book provides a complete reference for labs on chip in biotechnology, presenting a global view of current research and development. It integrates coverage of technology issues with strong theoretical explanations of design techniques; describes biochemical elements required to work on labs on c..

Bringing together a wide range of research in this important area, this book includes the latest developments and applications of marine-derived biomaterials, from preliminary research to clinical trials. Essential reading for the novice and expert alike, it details the isolation and characterizatio..

Written by more than 35 leading international experts in the field, this book discusses metabolic engineering in plant and mammalian cells, bacteria, and yeasts and assesses metabolic engineering applications in agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and environmental systems This unique reference/text offer..

This book describes emerging, non-conventional methods for probing the interactions of small molecules with nucleic acids as well as modern computational methods for assessment. By highlighting novel methods for nucleic acid/ligand interactions, the text presents drug developing companies with a sur..

Microbial biotechnology is defined as "any technological application that uses microbiological systems, microbial organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use."..

We have previously described the syntheses of both magnetic and nonmagnetic polymeric microspheres, and we have reported their application in removal of neuroblastoma cells from normal cells in bone marrow, in the separation of red blood cells, and the separation of human B and T lymphocytes. In the..

As the fourth volume of The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition, this book covers broad areas such as molecular biology, transport phenomena, physiological modeling, stem cells, drug delivery systems, artificial organs, and personalized medicine...

This book provides a comprehensive overview on multifunctional molecular materials that involve coexistence or interplay or synergy between multiple physical properties focusing on electrical conductivity, magnetism, single-molecule magnets behavior, chirality, spin crossover, and luminescence. The ..

Featuring contributions from active researchers around the world, this book explores current and emerging fields such as glycomics, miRNA, metagenomics, and environomics and their various applications. In one volume, it examines a wide range of applications across the life sciences, demonstrating th..

An in-depth overview, this book covers the generation of Pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)and the current research in various labs on how the technology is being used to study the diseases and identify novel treatments. It addresses three main areas: (a) various methods of reprogramming somatic cells t..

Downstream processing is an essential practice in the production and purification of biosynthethic materials, which is especially important in the production of pharmaceutical products. This book covers the fundamentals and the design concepts of various downstream recovery and purification steps (u..