Biology, Life Sciences

Microbial ecology is the study of interactions among microbes in natural environments and their roles in biogeochemical cycles, food web dynamics, ...

Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all...

Almost everybody has an obsession or feels a compulsion to do something a certain way. Magic numbers, intrusive thoughts, unusual fears and superst...

In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, somewhere between life and death, which the...

Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle was a journey that would revolutionise our understanding of the natural world and our place in it. The ma...

Fragmentation: Toward Accurate Calculations on Complex Molecular Systems introduces the reader to the broad array of fragmentation and embedding me...

Acclaimed journalist Lone Frank embarks on an incredible adventure to the frontiers of neuroscience, revealing how today’s top scientists are reinv...

Since Alois Alzheimer described the results of his postmortem studies in 1906, significant strides have been made in understanding the pathogenesis...

Natural Products: Discourse, Diversity and Design provides an informative and accessible overview of discoveries in the area of natural products in...

Why have creatures evolved as they are? Which species have been the most successful? How do life forms adapt to a world dominated by nearly seven b...

Tools and Techniques in the Biomolecular Sciences reviews the theoretical concepts and experimental details underpinning the broad range of modern ...

Dating back to the early Cambrian period, crustaceans had ample time to undertake endless experimentation with form and function. Today, no other g...

The incorporation of functional ingredients in a given food system and the processing and handling of such foods are associated with nutritional ch...

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret...

Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of iden...

The Oxford Handbook of Metamemory investigates the human ability to evaluate and control learning and information retrieval processes. Each chapter...

The evolutionist Ernst Mayr considered August Weismann “one of the great biologists of all time.” Yet the man who formulated the germ plasm theory—...