Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Life Sciences - Biochemistry

A thrilling tale of encounters with nature's masters of biochemistry

"A fitting tribute to one of nature's most sinister creations of all." --Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex

In Venomous, the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemistry and medicine today.

Wilcox takes us from the coast of Indonesia to the rain forests of Peru in search of the secrets of these mysterious animals. We encounter...

The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of scientists.

For two and a half billion years, from the very origins of life, single-celled organisms such as bacteria evolved without changing their basic form. Then, on just one...

The World Health Organization and Diabetes UK endorse the effectiveness of using glycemic values in selecting foods. But many health professionals consider GI and GL too complex for use in clinical practice.

That translates into not listing GI scores on our packaged products, not including these scores in our national nutrient database files, and little to no help from health professionals.

So it is up to the consumer to figure it out.

This pocket guide is built to provide just those glycemic food values. It is a short-cut to just the values...

Zoonosen sind Krankheiten bzw. Infektionen, die auf naturlichem Weg direkt oder indirekt zwischen Menschen und Tieren ubertragen werden konnen. Als Zoonoseerreger kommen Viren, Bakterien, Pilze, Parasiten oder Prionen in Betracht. Zoonoseerreger sind in Tierpopulationen weit verbreitet und konnen von Nutztieren, die in der Regel selbst keine Anzeichen einer Infektion oder Erkrankung aufweisen, z. B. wahrend der Schlachtung und Weiterverarbeitung auf das Fleisch ubertragen werden. Mit Zoonoseerregern kontaminierte Lebensmittel stellen eine wichtige Infektionsquelle fur den Menschen dar. Die...

The American Indian--origin, culture, and language--engaged the best minds of Europe from 1492 to 1729. Were the Indians the result of a co-creation? Were they descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel? Could they have emigrated from Carthage, Phoenicia, or Troy? All these and many other theories were proposed.

How could scholars account for the multiplicity of languages among the Indians, the differences in levels of culture? And how did the Indian arrive in America--by using as a bridge a now-lost continent or, as was later suggested by some persons in the light of an expanding...

In this book, top researchers in the field of protein biochemistry describe modern methods to address the challenges of protein purification, folding and degradation. The significance of peptide purity for fibril formation, the use of target oriented peptide arrays, the design and application of protein epitope mimetics, and the structural resolving of the misfolding of mutant proteins enlarge are addressed.

Various KLK proteins and their encoding genes have attracted increased attention among scientists and clinicians worldwide since they represent very interesting and functionally distinct biomarkers, particularly, in cancer. This book reviews the role of kallikrein-related peptidases (KLKs) in a wide range of cancers, including lung, prostate, breast and ovarian cancer. It provides clinicians, physician scientists and researchers with a comprehensive overview on the clinical relevance of KLK expression in various malignancies.

The KLK proteins and their encoding genes are increasingly attracting attention among scientists and clinicians worldwide as they represent interesting and functionally distinct biomarkers both under physiological and pathophysiological conditions. This volume on kallikrein-related peptidases (KLKs) reviews the characterization, regulation, and interactions of these proteases within the protease web.