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  • Biotechnologies for Plant Mutation Breeding

    Protocols

    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book offers 19 detailed protocols on the use of induced mutations in crop breeding and functional genomics studies, which cover topics including chemical and physical mutagenesis, phenotypic screening methods, traditional TILLING and TILLING by sequencing, doubled haploidy, targeted genome editing, and low-cost methods for the molecular ... Read more

    Free

  • Biotechnology Demystified

    by Sharon Walker ...
    Series series Demystified
    This self-teaching guide explains the basic concepts and fundamentals in all the major subtopics of biotechnology. The content advances logically from the basics of molecular and cellular biology to more complex topics such as DNA, reproductive cloning, experimental procedures, infectious diseases, immunology, the Human Genome Project, new drug discoveries, and genetic disorders. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Introduction to Nanoscience

    Nanoscience is not physics, chemistry, engineering or biology. It is all of them, and it is time for a text that integrates the disciplines. This is such a text, aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the sciences. The consequences of smallness and quantum behaviour are well known and described Richard Feynman's visionary essay 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom' ... Read more

    $98.99 USD $87.99 USD

  • Risk Management Applications in Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

    Series Book 4 - Wiley Series in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
    Sets forth tested and proven risk management practices in drug manufacturingRisk management is essential for safe and efficient pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, control, and distribution. With this book as their guide, readers involved in all facets of drug manufacturing have a single, expertly written, and organized resource to guide them through all facets of risk management ... Read more

    $118.00 USD

  • An Introduction to Biotechnology

    The Science, Technology and Medical Applications

    by W.T. Godbey ...
    An Introduction to Biotechnology is a biotechnology textbook aimed at undergraduates. It covers the basics of cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, and introduces laboratory techniques specific to the technologies addressed in the book; it addresses specific biotechnologies at both the theoretical and application levels.Biotechnology is a field that encompasses both basic science and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Handbook of Biomaterials Biocompatibility

    Edited by Masoud Mozafari ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials
    Handbook of Biomaterials Biocompatibility is a systematic reference on host response to different biomaterials, taking into account their physical, mechanical and chemical properties. The book reviews recent progress in the design and study of biomaterials biocompatibility, along with current understanding on how to control immune system response. Sections provide the fundamental theories and ... Read more

    $238.99 USD

  • Biotech

    The Countercultural Origins of an Industry

    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave rise to for-profit biological research. Given such extraordinary stakes, a history of the commercial biotechnology industry must inquire far beyond the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Food Allergens

    Biochemistry and Molecular Nutrition

    Series series Food Microbiology and Food Safety
    A food allergen has the ability to first elicit an IgE response, and then, on subsequent exposures, a clinical response to the same or similar protein. How harmless food protein becomes recognized by the mucosal immune system as an allergen remains an open question and more data are needed to explain how regulatory mechanisms of the mucosal immune system fail and result in allergic sensitization ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Genome Editing in Neurosciences

    Series series Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.CRISPR-Cas9 is a rapid, efficient, versatile and relatively cheap method for dissecting the molecular pathways that are the basis of life, as well as for investigating and potentially rectifying faults in these pathways that result in disease.This book reviews how CRISPR-Cas9 and other genome editing techniques are advancing our understanding of ... Read more

    Free

  • Biomass and Biofuels from Microalgae

    Advances in Engineering and Biology

    Series Book 2 - Biofuel and Biorefinery Technologies
    This comprehensive book details the most recent advances in the microalgae biological sciences and engineering technologies for biomass and biofuel production in order to meet the ongoing need for new and affordable sources of food, chemicals and energy for future generations. The chapters explore new microalgae cultivation techniques, including solid (biofilm) systems, and heterotrophic ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Organ Grinders

    by Bill Fitzhugh ...
    Series Book 3 - The Transplant Tetralogy
    Paul Symon is an environmentalist who's out to make the world a better place, but he faces too much disjointed information, public apathy, and self-serving talk. Not to mention greedy despoiler Jerry Landis, a venture capitalist dying of a rare disease that accelerates the aging process.Landis cares only about making more money and finding a way to arrest his medical condition. That brings him and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • After Meat

    The Case for an Amazing, Meat-Free World

    by Karthik Sekar ...
    Animals make for terrible technology. The technological use of animals--making food, drugs, clothing, and cosmetics out of animal material--will cease. A cow takes over one year to grow, "wastes" over ninety percent of what it's fed, and cannot be innovated much further. After Meat explains the fundamental limits of animal technology in terms of physics and biology. Replacement technology such as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Smart Plant Factory

    The Next Generation Indoor Vertical Farms

    Edited by Toyoki Kozai ...
    This book describes the concept, characteristics, methodology, design, management, business, recent advances and future technologies of plant factories with artificial lighting (PFAL) and indoor vertical farms.The third wave of PFAL business started in around 2010 in Japan and Taiwan, and in USA and Europe it began in about 2013 after the rapid advances in LED technology. The book discusses the ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Introduction to Development Engineering

    A Framework with Applications from the Field

    This open access textbook introduces the emerging field of Development Engineering and its constituent theories, methods, and applications. It is both a teaching text for students and a resource for researchers and practitioners engaged in the design and scaling of technologies for low-resource communities. The scope is broad, ranging from the development of mobile applications for low-literacy ... Read more

    Free

  • Biomedical Odysseys

    Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China

    Series Book 12 - Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders have ignored the warnings of doctors and scientists back home in order to stake their futures ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Analytical Chemistry of Cannabis

    Quality Assessment, Assurance, and Regulation of Medicinal Marijuana and Cannabinoid Preparations

    Series series Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry
    A volume in the Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry series, The Analytical Chemistry of Cannabis: Quality Assessment, Assurance, and Regulation of Medicinal Marijuana and Cannabinoid Preparations provides analytical chemistry methods that address the latest issues surrounding cannabis-based products. The plethora of marketed strains of cannabis and cannabinoid-containing products, combined ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Quantitative Models in Life Science Business

    From Value Creation to Business Processes

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Economics
    This open access book explores the field of life science business from a multidisciplinary perspective. Applying statistical, mathematical, game-theoretic, and data science tools to pharmaceutical and biotechnology business endeavors, the book describes value creation, value maintenance, and value realization in the life sciences as a sequence of processes using the quantitative language of ... Read more

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  • The Antebellum Press

    Setting the Stage for Civil War

    The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War reveals the critical role of journalism in the years leading up to America’s deadliest conflict by exploring the events that foreshadowed and, in some ways, contributed directly to the outbreak of war.This collection of scholarly essays traces how the national press influenced and shaped America’s path towards warfare. Major challenges faced by ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Understanding Coronavirus

    by Raul Rabadan ...
    Series series Understanding Life
    Since the identification of the first cases of the coronavirus in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, there has been a significant amount of confusion regarding the origin and spread of the so-called 'coronavirus', officially named SARS-CoV-2, and the cause of the disease COVID-19. Conflicting messages from the media and officials across different countries and organizations, the abundance of disparate ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Ageless Generation

    How Advances in Biomedicine Will Transform the Global Economy

    Over the past 20 years, the biomedical research community has been delivering hundreds of breakthroughs expected to extend human lifespan beyond thresholds imaginable today. However, much of this research has not yet been adopted into clinical practice, nor has it been widely publicized. Biomedicine will transform our society forever by allowing people to live longer and to continue working and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bioprocess Engineering Principles

    This welcome new edition discusses bioprocess engineering from the perspective of biology students. It includes a great deal of new material and has been extensively revised and expanded. These updates strengthen the book and maintain its position as the book of choice for senior undergraduates and graduates seeking to move from biochemistry/microbiology/molecular biology to bioprocess engineering ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Statistical Methods for Overdispersed Count Data

    Statistical Methods for Overdispersed Count Data provides a review of the most recent methods and models for such data, including a description of R functions and packages that allow their implementation. All methods are illustrated on datasets arising in the field of health economics. As several tools have been developed to tackle over-dispersed and zero-inflated data (such as adjustment methods ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Kaggle Book

    Data analysis and machine learning for competitive data science

    Get a step ahead of your competitors with insights from over 30 Kaggle Masters and Grandmasters. Discover tips, tricks, and best practices for competing effectively on Kaggle and becoming a better data scientist.Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.Key FeaturesLearn how Kaggle works and how to make the most of competitions from over 30 expert KagglersSharpen ... Read more

    $43.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Life Itself

    Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century

    by Nikolas Rose ...
    Series series In-Formation
    For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD