Biology, Life Sciences

In recent years, scientific evidence supporting the relationship between diet and health has emerged. This has led to a growing interest in full an...

This book provides readers with the latest developments in neuroscience research. Chapter One presents nonlinear features of EEG changes during aud...

The chapters in this volume present the latest developments in medicine and biology. Chapter One reviews creatinine in obstetrics. Chapter Two stud...

The chapters in this volume present the latest developments in medicine and biology. Chapter One provides an overview of normal variations of pigme...

Botany is a forerunning field of study that could address the foremost disputes facing humanity in the 21st century; coupled with the development o...

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play an important role in vital biological processes such as metabolic and signaling pathways, cell cycle contr...

Fish, or lower vertebrates, occupy the basal nodes of the vertebrate phylogeny, and are therefore crucial in interpreting almost every feature of m...

Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of h...

Enterococcus faecalis is a gram-positive, coccus shaped, lactic acid bacterium, with demonstrated ubiquity across multiple anatomical sites. Entero...

The house mouse is the source of almost all genetic variation in laboratory mice; its genome was sequenced alongside that of humans, and it has bec...

Antifreeze proteins, also known as thermal hysteresis proteins, ice binding proteins and ice structuring proteins, prevent the growth of ice crysta...

Recent years have witnessed an avalanche of new knowledge implicating free radicals in virtually every aspect of biology and medicine. It is now ax...

Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned wit...

Eutrophication is an increase in the concentration of chemical nutrients in an ecosystem to an extent that increases the primary productivity of th...

In a social context, body odours act as effective psycho-biological signals modulating interpersonal interactions, but also as several physiologica...

This book presents topical research in the study of the Alpine environment with a focus on geology, ecology and conservation. Topics discussed incl...