Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Biotechnology

Tissue Engineering Made Easy provides concise, easy to understand, up-to-date information about the most important topics in tissue engineering. These include background and basic principles, clinical applications for a variety of organs (skin, nerves, eye, heart, lungs and bones), and the future of the field. The descriptions and explanations of each topic are such that those who have not had any exposure to the principles and practice of tissue engineering will be able to understand them, and the volume will serve as a source for self-teaching to get readers to a point where they...

• An objective overview of what is meant by plant genetic engineering (GMO) and an insight as to where the science and technology came from.
• An explanation (without being too 'sciencey') of how the genetic engineering of the DNA of plant species is being...

This will be a comprehensive multi-contributed reference work, with the Editors being highly regarded alternative fuels experts from India and Switzerland. There will be a strong orientation toward production of biofuels covering such topics as biodiesel from renewable sources, biofuels from biomass, vegetable based feedstocks from biofuel production, global demand for biofuels and economic aspects of biofuel production.

• Book covers the latest advances in all product areas relative to biofuels.
• Discusses coverage of public opinion related to...

Everything you want to know about oil - but never dared ask The VFUU Price of Oil explores the way we use oil and the economic and environmental costs of doing so. But it's not full of jargon, conspiracy theories or vitriol. It gives oil and the oil industry the credit they deserve for making our lives historically healthy and wealthy. It also shows we would be wise to use less oil. Nor is it heavy going, readers have commented on its lively, pacey tone, and it explains every bit of terminology in everyday English. It inspires by giving some fabulous examples of people who have just got on...

Many researchers are choosing computational modeling of biomolecules to analyze data at a level of mechanistic detail that would otherwise prove difficult to achieve. This book reflects on the tremendous impact of computational modeling, focusing on coarse-grained simulations for biomolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, for which systems may be too large and the processes too slow for atomistic or quantum simulations. Coverage includes fundamentals as well as applications in state-of-the-art coarse-grained force fields of proteins and nucleic acids.

Epigenetics--the study of internal and environmental factors that affect how genes are turned on or off and how cells read those genes--is a rapidly emerging science akin to genetics that introduces a number of novel and unexpected biological explanations of human origins and development. It also poses fundamental challenges to many of the assumptions of the prevailing science of genetics. When science changes, how does public policy respond?

This book comprehensively considers the political implications of the emerging science of epigenetics in specific policy domains,...

The global warming problem is becoming critical year by year, causing climate disaster all over the world, where it has been believed that the CO₂ gas emitted from the factories and the burning of fossil fuels may be one of the reasons of global warming. Moreover, the global stock of fossil fuels is limited, and may run out soon within several tens of years. Although wind, geo-thermal, and tide energies have been considered as clean energy sources, those depend on the land or sea locations and subject to the climate change. Biofuel and biochemical production from renewable...