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Prion Biology: Research and Advances
Published:
April 08, 2013
Editor(s):
Vincent Béringue
This book contains a selection of chapters aimed to provide a better understanding prion structure and biology. Together these chapters provide an overview of prion biology and underscore some of the challenges we face if we want to understand how this lively pathogen propagates and evolves in …
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Biogeography and Biodiversity of Western Atlantic Mollusks
Published:
April 02, 2013
Author(s):
Edward J. Petuch
Shallow water marine molluscan faunas are distributed in a pattern of distinct, geographically definable areas. This makes mollusks ideal for studying the distribution of organisms in the marine environment and the processes and patterns that control their evolution. Biogeography and Biodiversity …
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Game-Theoretical Models in Biology
Published:
March 27, 2013
Author(s):
Mark Broom; Jan Rychtar
Covering the major topics of evolutionary game theory, Game-Theoretical Models in Biology presents both abstract and practical mathematical models of real biological situations. It discusses the static aspects of game theory in a mathematically rigorous way that is appealing to mathematicians. In …
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OMICS: Applications in Biomedical, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Published:
March 26, 2013
Editor(s):
Debmalya Barh; Vasudeo Zambare; Vasco Azevedo
With the advent of new technologies and acquired knowledge, the number of fields in omics and their applications in diverse areas are rapidly increasing in the postgenomics era. Such emerging fields—including pharmacogenomics, toxicogenomics, regulomics, spliceomics, metagenomics, and …
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The Biology of Sea Turtles, Volume III
Published:
March 25, 2013
Editor(s):
Jeanette Wyneken; Kenneth J. Lohmann; John A. Musick
Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles was published in 1997, the field has grown and matured in ways few of the authors would have predicted—particularly in the areas of physiology, behavior, genetics, and health. Volume III presents timely coverage of emerging areas as well as the …
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Connexin Cell Communication Channels: Roles in the Immune System and Immunopathology
Published:
March 22, 2013
Editor(s):
Ernesto Oviedo-Orta; Brenda R. Kwak; William Howard Evans
Plasma membrane-associated channels known as gap junctions, along with their protein building blocks—connexins—have an important functional role in a range of immunological processes, including heart function, cell growth and specialization, and early development. Spanning basic science and …
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Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design
Published:
March 21, 2013
Author(s):
Ilaria Mazzoleni
Applying Properties of Animals Skins to Inspire Architectural EnvelopesBiology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni seeks to instill a shift in thinking about the …
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Molecular Motors in Bionanotechnology
Published:
March 18, 2013
Author(s):
Keith Firman; James Youell
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Biological molecular motors provide most cells with the dynamic systems required for their day-to-day existence. Examples occur in even the simplest organism (e.g. a bacteria virus), and the range of tasks that they carry out is vast. Over the last few years, there has been a large increase in the …
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LC-NMR: Expanding the Limits of Structure Elucidation
Published:
March 15, 2013
Author(s):
Nina C. Gonnella
The isolation and structural characterization of substances present at very low concentrations, as is necessary to satisfy regulatory requirements for pharmaceutical drug degradants and impurities, can present scientific challenges. The coupling of HPLC with NMR spectroscopy has been at the …
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American Herbal Products Association’s Botanical Safety Handbook, Second Edition
Published:
March 15, 2013
Editor(s):
Zoë Gardner; Michael McGuffin
Access to accurate, evidence-based, and clinically relevant information is essential to anyone who uses or recommends herbal products. With input from some of the most respected experts in herbal and integrative medicine, this completely revised edition of the American Herbal Products Association’s …
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