Biotechnology

Research powers innovation and technoscientific advance, but it is due for a rethink, one consistent with its deeply holistic nature, requiring dee...

The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet. Holy crap! Because ...

Cellulose is the most widely spread organic polymer found in nature, since it constitutes the main component of the membrane of plant cell. It is w...

Clinical research in paediatric psychopharmacology covers ethical, regulatory, clinical, scientific, intercultural and practical aspects of clinica...

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between ...

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to 3D printing and biofabrication and covers the recent advances in additive manufacturing for tissue...

This textbook is designed for an introductory course at undergraduate and graduate levels for bioengineering students. It provides a systematic way...

Protein-mediated charge transport is of relevant importance in the design of protein-based electronics and in attaining an adequate level of unders...

This book is a collection of essays by scientists, historians, philosophers of science, and students. The essays meld biotechnology into science fi...

Neurotechnology---brain imaging and other new tools for both understanding and influencing our brains---is accelerating the pace of change almost e...

Successful biopharmaceutical operations provides a practical guide to transforming biopharma companies into industry leaders through a focus on dri...

In our age of fast-paced biotechnological progress and humans' increasing impact on the environment the autonomy of 'nature' has come into question...

How does biotechnology touch on human destiny? What are its promises and challenges? In search for a response, the present volume turns to the thou...

This book examines the latest research in the synthetic biology which refers to both: the design and fabrication of biological components and syste...

In drug delivery, active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is delivered to the patient through different methods and shapes which are called pharmace...

Provision of water, food, energy, and shelter throughout the world were integrated with bio-systems and was a sustainable approach for the manageme...

Lipases are triacylglycerol acylhydrolases that catalyse the hydrolysis of triglycerides to release concomitant free fatty acids and glycerol. Lipa...

Carbohydrates play an important role in many biological and biochemical processes, including the fertilisation, cell differentiation and maturation...

A biologic is a preparation, such as a drug or a vaccine, that is made from living organisms. A follow-on biologic, or biosimilar, is similar to th...

The scope of this book deals with biosensors and microarrays that take advantage of the specific biological recognition between a surface-immobilis...

Polysaccharides, particularly starches, are common all over world. They are considered an important energy source and substitute of fossils includi...

Bio-nanocomposites form a unique class of a research area that integrates biology, chemistry, materials science, engineering and nanotechnology to ...

Flax is a multi-purpose crop with emerging markets for its industrial, food and feed uses. Linseed oil extracted from seeds is used for environment...

Modern biotechnological approaches have been designed to abate cost efficiencies and enhance productivity. The current book entitled Frontiers in F...

High Value Processing is concerned with all the processes and activities of converting raw materials and commodity materials into valuable products...

Modern environmental technologies are indeed designed to enhance cost efficiencies and productivity. The current proposal aims to provide a compreh...

Crop production varies spatially and temporally within the field boundaries depending on soil and environmental conditions. The major concern of va...

This book is focused on new developments in lignocellulose research. In particular, lignocellulosic biomass has been the focus of considerable atte...

Nova Science Publishers, New York, U.S.A has now released Personalized Medicine (Beyond PET Biomarkers), which is an extension of the authors recen...

Chapter 1 - authors engineered Escherichia coli strains overproducing recombinant enzymes. Chapter 2 - the sp-2 protein possessing anti-tumor activ...

In the past, platinum-based catalysts have been employed to reduce oxygen in the most conventional fuel cells. Although the promising results show ...

The rapid developments in nanostructured materials and nanotechnology will have a profound impact in many areas of biomedical applications includin...