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| ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR BIOCOMPUTING & BIOIMAGING [Tuan D Pham, Hong Yan & Denis I Crane (eds)] Computational models have been playing a significant role for the computer-based analysis of biological and biomedical data. Given the recent availability of genomic sequences and microarray gene expression data, there is an increasing demand for developing and applying advanced computational techniques for exploring these types of data such as functional interpretation of gene expression data, deciphering of how genes and proteins work together in pathways and networks, extracting and analysing phenotypic features of mitotic cells for high throughput screening of novel anti-mitotic drugs. Successful applications of advanced computational algorithms to solving modern life-science problems will make significant impacts on several important and promising issues related to genomic medicine, molecular imaging, and the scientific knowledge of the genetic basis of diseases. { 215pp, 180x260mm, September 2007; HB, £85.99, 1600212786:9781600212789 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| BIOSAFETY FIRST : Holistic Approaches to Risk & Uncertainty in Genetic Engineering & Genetically Modified Organisms [Terje Traavik & Lim Li Ching (eds)] The challenges for risk identification, assessment and management posed by genetic engineering and genetically modified organisms are some of the most demanding issues facing many countries and societies today. The evolving field of biosafety has developed in response to these challenges. BIOSAFETY FIRST is a stimulating collection of the latest thinking concerning biosafety science. It is a unique work as its approach to biosafety is holistic, encompassing not only the scientific, but also the socio-economic, cultural, policy and regulatory spheres. It does not claim to give all the answers, but acknowledges the issues and points to the uncertainties and knowledge gaps that still need to be addressed. Drawing on the new scientific field of ‘gene ecology’, and advocating a precautionary approach, this book provides a foundation on which countries can start to openly and responsibly appraise these new technologies and their products. { 612pp, 170x240mm, September 2007; PB, £51.00, 8251921139:9788251921138 , Tapir Academic Press } |
| BIOTECHNOLOGY : State of the Art & Prospects for Development [G E Zaikov (ed)] This book focuses on biotechnology is a collection of technologies that capitalise on the attributes of cells and biological molecules. Biotechnology will help improve the ability to customise therapies based on individual genomics; prevent, diagnose, and treat all types of diseases rather than rely on rescue therapy and provide breakthroughs in agricultural production and food safety. { 217pp, 180x260mm, February 2008; HB, £85.99, 1604560150:9781604560152 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOENGINEERING [William G Flynne (ed)] Biotechnology is a popular term for the generic technology of the 21st century. Although it has been utilised for centuries in traditional production processes, modern biotechnology is only 50 years old and in the last decades it has been witnessing tremendous developments. Bioengineering is the science upon which all Biotechnological applications are based. With the development of new approaches and modern techniques, traditional biotechnology industries are also acquiring new horizons enabling them to improve the quality of their products and increase the productivity of their systems. Biological engineering (also biosystems engineering and bioengineering) deals with engineering biological processes in general. It is a broad-based engineering discipline that also may involve product design, sustainability and analysis of biological systems. In other words, Bioengineering is a discipline that applies engineering principles to biological systems for the purpose of developing new technologies of services to improve the living standards of societies. It exploits the new developments in molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, cell metabolism and engineering principles and applies them in order to understand living systems and to bring solutions various problems associated with these systems. This book presents leading research in both areas. { March 2008; HB, £85.99, 1604560673:9781604560671 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| BIOTECHNOLOGY, AGRICULTURE & THE FOOD INDUSTRY [G E Zaikov (ed)] { 181pp, 180x260mm, June 2006; HB, £85.99, 1600210406:9781600210402 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| BIOTECHOLOGY : An Introduction [Sangita Malvee] Biotechnology, one of the major technologies of the twenty-first century emerged as a new research field that arose because of the fusion of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Microbiology. Its wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary activities include recombinant DNA techniques, cloning and the application of microbiology to the production of goods from bread to antibiotics, contributing to diverse areas as food production, waste disposal, mining and medicine. Applications of Biotechnology is felt when one goes to the movies to see Jurassic Park with cloned dinosaurs; or reads in the newspaper about the commercialization of a new Biotech Tomato that has a comprehensive shelf life; or hears one of the critics of Biotechnology talking about the possibility of calamitous consequences from genetic engineering. This book will be an essential reading for all students of biotechnology and applied microbiology, and for researchers in the field of Biotechnology. { 310pp, 155x230mm, March 2007; HB, £49.99, 8189741373:9788189741372 , SBS Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd } |
| CHEMICAL & BIOCHEMICAL PHYSICS, KINETICS & THERMODYNAMICS : New Perspectives [Paul E Scott, G E Zaikov & Viktor F Kablov (eds)] This book includes new and important research on antioxidants for chemistry and biology, kinetics and mechanisms of molecular, radical and ion reactions in chemistry and biochemistry, chemistry of ozone (reactions of ozone with organic and inorganic compounds, action of antiozonants), application of electron magnetic resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance in chemistry and biology, investigations of the structure and properties of nanocomposites (nanotubes, particularly), investigations on the structure and properties of nanocomposites (nanotubes, particularly), investigations of heterogeneous-heterophases mechanisms of reaction in polymer matrix, preparation and using of organic papanagnets for investigation of radical reactions in chemistry and biology, investigation of kinetic parameters in biochemical reactions, new designs for processing, mechanisms of oxidation and stabilisation of organic compounds (including polymers), polymer blends, composites and filled polymers (preparation, properties and application), and information about genetic construction, reactions with participants of enzymes. { 256pp, 180x260mm, February 2008; HB, £99.50, 160456024X:9781604560244 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| CROSSING OVER : Genomics in the Public Arena [Edna Einsiedel & Frank Timmermans] Promotes reflection on the socio-ethical & policy & regulatory aspects of genomics & biotechnology. This collection of essays illuminates the common themes surrounding this hotly contested issue & considers the politics, public perception, ethics, media representations, & future possibilities of genomics. { 261pp, 155x230mm, November 2005; PB, £23.50, 1552381919:9781552381915 , University of Calgary Press } |
| DOPAMINE RESEARCH ADVANCES [Akiyama Watanabe (ed)] Dopamine is a phenethylamine naturally produced by the human body. In the brain, dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter, activating the five types of dopamine receptor -- D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5, and their variants. Dopamine is produced in several areas of the brain, including the substantia nigra. Dopamine is also a neurohormone released by the hypothalamus. Its main function as a hormone is to inhibit the release of prolactin from the anterior lobe of the pituitary. Dopamine can be supplied as a medication that acts on the sympathetic nervous system, producing effects such as increased heart rate and blood pressure. However, since dopamine cannot cross the blood-brain barrier, dopamine given as a drug does not directly affect the central nervous system. To increase the amount of dopamine in the brains of patients with diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Dopa-Responsive Dystonia, L-DOPA (levodopa), which is the precursor of dopamine, can be given because it can cross the blood-brain barrier. This book presents new research in the field. { 225pp, 180x260mm, June 2007; HB, £85.99, 1600218202:9781600218200 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| FISH GENETICS [Sangeeta Malvee] Biotechnology is a technique that used living organisms to create and amend a product, to develop plants and animals or to develop micro-organisms for explicit uses. Biotechnological means of genetic improvement is a modern and faster approach. Genome manipulations (Chromosomal Engineering) and gene transfer (Genetic Engineering) have been experimentally studied throughout past in many countries. To date genetic progress in livestock breeding programmes has relied whichever on breed exchange or leading the conventional quantitative genetic approach of testing and selection. Under these circumstances the need to develop new technologies became imperative unlike in agriculture and veterinary farming exploitation of genetic potentials and utilisation of genetically improved cultured varieties of fish is not a common practice in aquaculture all most all species of fish are genetically improved to the traditional selective reading and hybridisation methods. Aquaculture is multidisciplinary activity. This book overviews Fishes and related biotechnology techniques. Reading this book will be beneficial for students of fisheries, researchers in this field and entrepreneurs. { 471pp, 145x225mm, February 2008; HB, £39.99, 8189741632:9788189741631 , SBS Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd } |
| FOCUS ON BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH [Edwin C Hearns (ed)] Biotechnology is a collection of technologies that capitalise on the attributes of cells and biological molecules. Biotechnology will help improve the ability to customise therapies based on individual genomics; prevent, diagnose, and treat all types of diseases rather than rely on rescue therapy and provide breakthroughs in agricultural production and food safety. This book offers new research in this growing field. { 246pp, 180x260mm, April 2006; HB, £85.99, 1594548633:9781594548635 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| GOVERNING RISK IN THE 21ST CENTURY : Lessons from the World of Biotechnology [Peter W B Phillips, Stuart J Smyth & William A Kerr (eds)] Biotechnological innovations in the past 30 years have raised many questions about how we can reap the benefits of transformative science and technology through responsible and sustainable use. Biotechnology has the potential both for better or worse to enhance, undercut or change as much as 40% of the world’s economy, to fundamentally alter our relationship with nature and to question our sense of self. { 112pp, 180x260mm, May 2006; HB, £59.50, 1594548188:9781594548185 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| NEUROCOMPUTING RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS [Hugo A Svensson (ed)] Neurocomputing is at the centre of multidisciplinary research, which involves computations by biological neural networks and those by artificial neural networks. Topics include vision, signal and pattern processing, learning, neurodynamics, associative memory; hardware and so on in the networks. This important book presents new research in the field. { 269pp, 180x260mm, September 2007; HB, £85.99, 1600219314:9781600219313 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| NEW RESEARCH ON BIOTECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE [A M Egorobv & Gennady Zaikov (eds)] { 253pp, 180x260mm, June 2006; HB, £85.99, 1600210929:9781600210921 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| NEW RESEARCH ON THE ENVIRONMENT & BIOTECHNOLOGY [A E Kuznetsov & G E Zaikov (eds)] { 179pp, 180x260mm, June 2006; HB, £85.99, 1600210422:9781600210426 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| PROGRESS IN BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS RESEARCH [Daan A De Jong (ed)] This new book focuses on recent research progress in biological cybernetics which includes experimental, theoretical and application-oriented aspects of information processing in organisms, including sensory, motor, cognitive, and ecological phenomena. Topics covered include: experimental studies of biological systems including quantitative modelling; computational, technical, or theoretical studies with relevance for understanding biological information processing; and artificial implementation of biological information processing and self-organising principles. { 195pp, 180x260mm, March 2008; HB, £45.99, 1600219683:9781600219689 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| PROGRESS IN NEUROCOMPUTING RESEARCH [Gerald B Kang (ed)] Neurocomputing is at the centre of multidisciplinary research , which involves computations by biological neural networks and those by artificial neural networks. Topics include vision, signal and pattern processing, learning, neurodynamics, associative memory, hardware and so on in the networks. This new and important book presents new research in the field. { 247pp, 180x260mm, September 2007; HB, £85.99, 1600218636:9781600218637 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| RESEARCH PROGRESS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY [G E Zaikov (ed)] Biotechnology is a collection of technologies that capitalise on the attributes of cells and biological molecules. Biotechnology will help improve the ability to customise therapies based on individual genomics; prevent, diagnose, and treat all types of diseases rather than rely on rescue therapy and provide breakthroughs in agricultural production and food safety. This book presents the latest research in the field. { 193pp, 180x260mm, February 2008; HB, £85.99, 1604560002:9781604560008 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| TRENDS IN BIOMATERIALS RESEARCH [Patrick J Pannone (ed)] Biomaterials serve as synthetic or natural materials used to replace parts of living systems or to enhance contact with living tissue. Biomaterials are intended to interface with biological systems to evaluate, treat, augment or replace any tissue, organ or function of the body. A biomaterial is different from a biological material such as bone that is produced by a biological system. Artificial hips, vascular stents, artificial peacemakers, and catheters are all made from different biomaterials and comprise different medical devices. This book presents new approaches to biomaterial development including multi-field bone remodeling, novel strategies for conferring antibacterial properties to bone cement, polyacrylonitrile-based biomaterials for enzyme immobilisation and functionalised magnetic nanoparticles for tissue engineering. { 244pp, 180x260mm, August 2006; HB, £85.99, 1600213618:9781600213618 , Nova Science Publishers } |