Biology, Life Sciences

The edited book covers all major and minor diseases in grain legumes (chickpea, pigeon pea, lentil, mung bean, common bean, groundnut, and soybean)...

This book essentially provides a refreshing description of the cortical and subcortical anatomy of the brain and how it relates to function. It inc...

Tremor is intimately linked to the numerous interactions of the central and peripheral nervous system components tuning motor control, from the cer...

This fully revised and significantly expanded second edition examines sex and gender differences in the immune system's response to bacterial, vira...

Physarum polycephalum, also known more colloquially as 'the blob', 'acellular slime mould', or just 'slime mould', is a unicellular multinucleate p...

Physarum polycephalum, also known more colloquially as 'the blob', 'acellular slime mould', or just 'slime mould', is a unicellular multinucleate p...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the cutting-edge research in the bioengineering of halophytes, with a particular focus on advancemen...

This edited volume covers all aspects of the Neglected Tropical Disease Scabies. The contributions are organised into four themed parts. The first ...

This book illustrates the role of photoprotective and radioprotective metabolites from natural sources. Various classes of radioprotective metaboli...

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian li...

This book is part of the book series titled Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants, and examines the rich plant diversity of Turkey, with desc...

This collection of original essays by scientists, theologians, religious studies scholars, and ethicists offers an authoritative, illuminating, and...

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba. ...

Ethnobotany: Ethnopharmacology to Bioactive Compounds comprises of carefully selected studies focusing on the importance of ethnobotanical data as ...

In this book we present recent studies that have been carried out on some widely used medicinal plants. The need for new and alternative treatments...

Being sessiles like autotrophic plants and heterotrophics as animals, fungi are fascinating eukaryotes. In them, the need for external digestion ha...

With the rapid increase in the global population and changing climatic impacts on agriculture, this book demonstrates how genome editing will be an...

This volume in the popular series, Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences, begins with the history of cancer treatment, carcinogens, and molecular m...

The research and development process in modern drug discovery and development is a complex and challenging task. Using traditional biological test ...

Volume 24, entitled Targeted Metallo-Drugs: Design, Development, and Modes of Action, of the series Metal Ions in Life Sciences (MILS), fosters int...

Drugs are often counterfeited to reduce manufacture costs, while still marketing it at as an authentic product. Increased incidence of drug counter...

This fully updated volume explores different classes of lipid transporters, such as lipid transfer proteins, flippases, and scramblases, and signif...

The book is divided into four parts: the first part introduces the basic concepts of nicotinamide coenzymes, the synthesis of nicotinamide coenzyme...