Life Sciences: General Issues

In regenerative medicine, tissue engineers largely rely on destructive and time-consuming techniques that do not allow in situ and spatial monitori...

Allowing many chemical reactions to be completed within minutes, microwave heating has revolutionized preparative chemistry. As a result, this tech...

The Cooperative Neuron is part of a revolution that is occurring in the sciences of brain and mind. It explores the new field of cellular psycholog...

The full colour, beautifully illustrated Modern Medicines from Plants: Botanical histories of some of modern medicines most important drugs feature...

Almost all synthetic materials over time induce some level of inflammation and fibrosis. Therefore, even though the successes of biomaterials scien...

The Routledge Handbook of Neuroethics offers the reader an informed view of how the brain sciences are being used to approach, understand, and rein...

Carbon Dioxide Reduction through Advanced Conversion and Utilization Technologies covers fundamentals, advanced conversion technologies, economic f...

Highlighting the major economic and industrial changes in the lubrication industry since the first edition, Synthetics, Mineral Oils, and Bio-Based...

This book details several important medicinal plants, their occurrence, plant compounds and their chemical structures, and pharmacological properti...

Biomaterials Science and Technology: Fundamentals and Developments presents a broad scope of the field of biomaterials science and technology, foc...

Global climate change affects productivity and species composition of freshwater and marine aquatic ecosystems by raising temperatures, ocean acidi...

Sustainable Catalysis in Ionic Liquids provides an up-to-date overview of the relatively underexplored area of the use of room temperature ionic li...

A Probabilistic Model of the Genotype/Phenotype Relationship provides a new hypothesis on the relationship between genotype and phenotype. The main...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

Linear induction accelerators are successfully used as power supplies for numerous devices of relativistic high-frequency electronics. This book ad...

Many varieties of new, complex diseases are constantly being discovered, which leaves scientists with little choice but to embrace innovative metho...

With the constant emergence of new research and application possibilities, gaseous electronics is more important than ever in disciplines including...

Now in its second edition, Forensic Investigation of Explosions draws on the editors 30 years of explosives casework experience, including his work...

A range of factors must be considered when developing a topical antimicrobial for use in a healthcare personnel handwash, surgical scrub, or preope...

This book highlights the importance of endothelial cells as key players in the functioning of the nervous system under both normal and pathological...

This book covers theoretical aspects of adsorption, followed by an introduction to molecular simulations and other numerical techniques that have b...

Surface tension provides a thermodynamic avenue for analyzing systems in equilibrium and formulating phenomenological explanations for the behavior...

As a result of their unique physical properties, biological membrane mimetics, such as liposomes, are used in a broad range of scientific and techn...

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