Biological category: 21163 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This book discusses how biological molecules exert their function and regulate biological processes, with a clear focus on how conformational dynamics of proteins are critical in this respect. In the last decade, the advancements in computational biology, nuclear magnetic resonance including paramagnetic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Nontarget Effects of Biological Control is the first book of its kind. The environmental safety of biological control has come under scrutiny due to several areas of concerns: the irreversibility of alien introductions, the prevalence of host switching to innocuous native or beneficial species, dispersal...
Biological Inorganic Chemistry
A New Introduction to Molecular Structure and Function
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Biological Inorganic Chemistry: A New Introduction to Molecular Structure and Function, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of the biochemical aspects of metals in living systems. Beginning with an overview of metals and selected nonmetals in biology, the book then discusses the following...
by Elena Mikhailovna Egorova, Aslan Amirkhanovich Kubatiev, Vitaly Ivanovich Schvets
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent studies conducted on the biological effects of metal nanoparticles. It also provides a solid theoretical foundation and various metal nanoparticle synthesis methods.
Part I reviews the main chemical methods used for synthesizing metal nanoparticles...
Coping with Biological Growth on Stone Heritage Objects
Methods, Products, Applications, and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Coping with Biological Growth on Stone Heritage Objects: Methods, Products, Applications, and Perspectives offers hands-on guidance for addressing the specific challenges involved in conserving historical monuments, sculptures, archaeological sites, and caves that have been attacked and colonized...
Human Biological Aging
From Macromolecules to Organ Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Comprehension of the theories of aging requires rudimentary knowledge of oxidation and reduction reactions, protein function, cell organelles, mitosis, acquired immunity, and evolution, among other basic biological concepts. Without these fundamentals, students of biological aging struggle to learn...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Nanoscale techniques and devices have had an explosive influence on research in life sciences and bioengineering.Reflecting this influence, Nanopatterning and Nanoscale Devices for Biological Applications provides valuable insight into the latest developments in nanoscale technologies for the study...
by Arthur T. Winfree
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1986
"A clock," writes Arthur T. Winfree, "is not much good if you can't pull out its stem and set it."
Similarly, the most critical property of biological clocks--which rhythmically organize the processes of life--is their ability to reset on cue.
This ability allows...
Periodic Tables Unifying Living Organisms at the Molecular Level
The Predictive Power of the Law of Periodicity
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The DNA sequencing of a series of living organisms has elucidated many biological problems. But the internal atomic and electronic evolution of DNA remains to be mapped in detail. RNA and DNA now appear to be the prime determinants of biological evolution leading to the sudden appearance of novel...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
With rampant industrialization, the management of waste generated by various industries is becoming a mammoth problem. Wastewater discharges from industrial and commercial sources may contain pollutants at levels that could affect the quality of receiving waters or interfere with potable water supplies....
Mathematical Approaches to Biological Systems
Networks, Oscillations, and Collective Motions
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This book presents the most recent mathematical approaches to the growing research area of networks, oscillations, and collective motions in the context of biological systems. Bringing together the results of multiple studies of different biological systems, this book sheds light on the relations...
From X-rays to DNA
How Engineering Drives Biology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
An argument that technology accelerates biological discovery, with case studies ranging from chromosome discovery with early microscopes to how DNA replicates using radioisotope labels.
Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often...
Biological Identification
DNA Amplification and Sequencing, Optical Sensing, Lab-On-Chip and Portable Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Biological Identification provides a detailed review of, and potential future developments in, the technologies available to counter the threats to life and health posed by natural pathogens, toxins, and bioterrorism agents. Biological identification systems must be fast, accurate, reliable, and easy...
Some Critical Questions in Biological Physics
A guided tour around the bugbears
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Some Critical Questions in Biological Physics discusses 18 key questions in biological physics, each forming independent chapters that will, by presenting the research in terms of key, unsolved problems, encourage interest in the field. Each chapter includes an introduction that is meant to be accessible...