Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Life Sciences - General

21st Century Science & Technology celebrates 150 years of Vernadsky with this two-volume anthology of original translations of Vernadsky's work, as well as articles both historical and scientific regarding this prolific thinker, the founder of biogeochemistry.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction // 150 Years of Vernadsky: A Scientist for Mankind's Future - by Meghan Rouillard
• Translation // On The Condition of The Appearance of Life on Earth (1931) - Vladimir I. Vernadsky
• Article // A. I. Oparin: Fraud, Fallacy, or Both? Vladimir Vernadsky vs....

21st Century Science & Technology celebrates 150 years of Vernadsky with this two-volume anthology. This volume, The Noosphere, contains original translations of Vladimir Vernadsky's work, as well as historical and scientific articles regarding the work of this great scientist.

CONTENTS:

Introduction // 150 Years of Vernadsky: A Scientist for Mankind's Future - by Meghan Rouillard

Translation // The Transition From The Biosphere To The Noosphere . From Scientific Thought as a Planetary Phenomenon (1938)

Article // The "Greening" of Vladimir...

Knowledge Driven Development: Private Extension and Global Lessons uses actual cases written specifically to study the role and capacity of private companies in knowledge sharing and intensification through agricultural extension. Descriptions of specific models and approaches are teased out of complex situations exhibiting a range of agricultural, regulatory, socio-economic variables. Illustrative cases focus on a particular agricultural value chain and elaborate the special feature of the associated private extension system.

Chapters presenting individual cases of...

For nearly a decade, scientists, educators and policy makers have issued a call to college biology professors to transform undergraduate life sciences education. As a gateway science for many undergraduate students, biology courses are crucial to addressing many of the challenges we face, such as climate change, sustainable food supply and fresh water and emerging public health issues.

While canned laboratories and cook-book approaches to college science education do teach students to operate equipment, make accurate measurements and work well with numbers, they do not teach...

Synthetic biology is becoming one of the most dynamic new fields of biology, with the potential to revolutionize the way we do biotechnology today. By applying the toolbox of engineering disciplines to biology, a whole set of potential applications become possible ranging very widely across scientific and engineering disciplines. Some of the potential benefits of synthetic biology, such as the development of low-cost drugs or the production of chemicals and energy by engineered bacteria are enormous. There are, however, also potential and perceived risks due to deliberate or accidental...

In recent years, cancer stem cells have been recognized as important component in carcinogenesis and they seem to form the basis of many (if not all) tumor types. Cancer stem cells or "cancer cell like stem cells" have been isolated from various cancers of different origin (blood, breast, brain, skin, head and neck, thyroid, cervix, lung, retina, colon, pancreas and so on). Cancer stem cells - rare cells with indefinite proliferative potential that drive the formation and growth of tumours- seem to show intriguing relationships with physiological stem cells. Specifically, these cancer...