Biology, Life Sciences

This book provides an actual overview of structure, function, and application of carbohydrate-modifying biocatalysts. Unlike amino acids and nuclei...

The interdisciplinary field of Astrobiology constitutes a joint arena where provocative discoveries are coalescing concerning, e.g. the prevalence ...

Initially, because of the inadequate sensitivity of devices and other limitations, only major venom components of the dominant species were studied...

This volume deals mainly with the specialized aspect of toxins and drug discovery. Man has been using natural resources especially plants to treat ...

This volume, in its over two dozen chapters, constitutes an overview of the current plant toxin research. It covers from general aspects of plant t...

Plants produce secondary metabolites with herbicidal, insecticidal, fungicidal and antioxidant activities. This book provides an up-to-date treatme...

Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, without a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a t...

Sir Joseph Banks was one of the great figures of Georgian England, best known for participating as naturalist in Cook's Endeavour voyage (1768-71),...

Quantitative methods are revolutionizing modern molecular and cellular biology. Groundbreaking technical advances are fueling the rapid expansion i...

John (Kay) Corner left home in 1960, aged 19. He would never see his father, E. J. H. Corner, again. Edred John Henry Corner was one of the most...

This volume provides the reader with recent advances in the fields of molecular toxinology, the biotechnological applications of venom toxins, an...

Past, present, and future research of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs; also called vitamin A-storing cells, lipocytes, interstitial cells, fat-storing...

Specifically tailored to life science students, this textbook explains quantitative aspects of human biophysics with examples drawn from contempora...

With over two hundred types of cancer diagnosed to date, researchers the world over have been forced to rapidly update their understanding of the b...

This book provides the means for every teacher to build a base of understanding in three essential learning sciencesneuroscience, cognitive psychol...

Highlights the influence of saltatory evolution and rapid climate change on human evolution, migration and behavioural change. Growing concern over...

They change color depending on their mood. They possess uniquely adapted hands and feet distinct from other tetrapods. They feature independently m...