Biology, Life Sciences

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...

This book tackles complex global issues like vaccination, climate change, environmental ethics, embryo adoption, and surrogate motherhood viewed fr...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (2024 nt), single stranded, regulatory RNA molecules or gene regulators of critical transcriptional or post-transcript...

This book covers issues pertaining to uranium tailings with special reference to consolidation of radioactivity including systematic ecological str...

The book entitled Nanophytopathology discusses the need for alternative technologies particularly smart nanotechnological tools including nanobiose...

There are around 1.5 million fungal species worldwide. Out of these around 14,000 species produce fruiting bodies known as mushrooms, and around 20...

This book, as part of the Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants series, describes in detail the health-promoting wild edible and medicinal mu...

This book is a compendium of knowledge about nanomaterials and strategies for bioremediation over hazardous environmental pollutants. The book is d...

Cognition-Based Evolution is the first comprehensive alternative to 20th-century Neodarwinism, proposing a radical 21st-century evolutionary framew...

Volume 25, entitled Modern Avenues in Metal-Nucleic Acid Chemistry, of the series Metal Ions in Life Sciences (MILS), provides a timely overview of...

Food ingredients are important molecules of the most diverse chemical classes responsible for conferring nutrition, stability, color, flavor, rheol...

Enzymes are biological molecules of great relevance. In addition to the fundamental role in metabolic reactions, they have diverse applications in ...

Quantum Chemistry provides a coherent and structured approach in introducing the concept of 'quantum' to the students of quantum mechanics. An atte...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the valorization of agri-food waste and discusses the main process conditions needed...

Microbes are widely used in large-scale industrial processes due to their versatility, easy growing cultivation, kinetic potential, and the ability...

Intelligent Medicine on Prediction of Pelvic Lymph Node Metastasis focuses on leveraging intelligent medical techniques to predict lymph node metas...

The current exposure of human populations to toxic metals makes the prevention and control of such exposures crucial. Biomarkers are undoubtably re...

Apart from diet and exercise, the strategic use of different classes of prescribed or non-prescribed xenobiotic compounds for the restoration of eu...

The primary focus of this book is to educate the reader on the Matching Person and Technology (MPT) model and assessment process that will guide th...

This is the loose-leaf version of Introduction to Kinesiology, Sixth Edition With HKPropel Access, which offers students a less expensive, printed ...

This unique volume provides an insight into bioactive compounds of tea from studies of both chemical structures and pharmacological aspects. Exampl...

Soil invertebrates make up diverse communities living in soil pores and on the soil surface, digging burrows and tunnels, processing organic matter...

This book critically engages the emerging field of global animal law from the perspective of an intersectional ethical framework. Reconceptualising...

This fully revised and expanded volume is an effort to blend the common approaches to pharmacokinetics and toxicokinetics. It integrates the princi...