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Spirulina Platensis ( Arthrospira ): Physiology, Cell-Biology and Biotechnology
Taylor & Francis 1997; US$ 115.00Spirulina Platensis, a blue-green algae, has been recognized and used worldwide as a traditional source of protein in the food industry. The uses and mass cultivation of this algae have risen substantially due to an increased understanding of its biological systems. This text contains detailed descriptions of both the biology and the biotechnological... more...
Transgenic Plants
World Scientific Publishing Company 1997; US$ 72.80This timely and important book presents the essence of transgenic plant production. This activity is being pursued by many investigators and interesting results are rapidly accumulating. The basic methodologies have been developed and the transformation of additional plant species is more an ?engineering?/biotechnology problem than a matter of developing... more...
His Brother's Keeper
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine. The book... more...
Enzyme Functionality
Marcel Dekker Inc 2003; US$ 279.95This text presents techniques for screening enzymes and enzyme variants for catalytic stability, structural stability and thermostability. It includes discussion of combinatorial mutagenesis algorithms and combinatorial mutant libraries for directed evolution of novel enzyme activities. more...
Radical Evolution
Crown Publishing Group 2005; US$ 16.99In Radical Evolution, bestselling author Joel Garreau, a reporter and editor for the Washington Post, shows us that we are at an inflection point in history. As you read this, we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through advances in genetic, robotic, information and nanotechnologies, we are altering our minds, our memories, our... more...
Concise Dictionary of Biomedicine and Molecular Biology
CRC Press 2001; US$ 219.95Some 30,000 entries in this dictionary offer brief definitions of terms commonly used in biotechnology, molecular biology, and biomedicine. Entries provide information on the chemical structures and molecular weights of drugs, antibiotics, and biochemically important compounds, listing corresponding generic names for trade names of drugs and cross- more...
Electrochemistry of Nucleic Acids and Proteins
Elsevier Science 2005; US$ 415.00DNA (sometimes referred to as the molecule of life), is the most interesting and most important of all molecules. Electrochemistry of Nucleic Acids and Proteins: Towards Electrochemical Sensors for Genomics and Proteomics is devoted to the electrochemistry of DNA and RNA and to the development of sensors for detecting DNA damage and DNA hybridization.... more...
Fruit and vegetable biotechnology
Woodhead Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 265.00The genetic modification of foods is one of the most significant developments in food processing, and one of the most controversial. This important collection reviews its application to fruit and vegetables. Part 1 looks at techniques and their applications in improving production and product quality. Part 2 discusses how genetic modification has been... more...
Bioinformatics
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 240.00The advances in genomic technologies, such as microarrays and high throughput sequencing, have expanded the realm of possibilities for capturing data and analyzing it using automated computer driven bioinformatics tools. With the completion of the sequencing of genomes of human and several model organisms, a quest for scientific discoveries being fueled... more...









