Biology category: 3817 books
The Mediterranean Sea
Its history and present challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This volume is an indispensable addition to the multidisciplinary coverage of the science of the Mediterranean Sea. The editors have gathered leading authorities from the fields of Marine Biology, Ecology, paleoclimatology, Chemical and Physical Oceanography, Zoology, Botany, Aquatic Photosynthesis,...
by Tim Grollimund
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
One topic that caught my eye was a study about the changes in the population of yellow stingrays in various parts of the Caribbean. Why should we care about yellow stingrays? In this study, published in the scientific journal Environmental Biology of Fishes, Reef Environmental Education Foundation...
by Tim Grollimund
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
"While the vast majority of observations during the day are while eels are resting or on a cleaning station, a few times I have seen an eel coupled with a grouper. The first time I saw this was on the Winch Hole. A graysby came to a stop on a pile of rubble, and a goldentail came out from its lair....
by Kim Todd
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Innocent. Invader. Lover. Thief. Sparrows are everywhere and wear many guises. Able to live in the Arctic and the desert, from Beijing to San Francisco, the house sparrow is the most ubiquitous wild bird in the world. They are the subject of elegies by Catullus and John Skelton and listed as “pretty...
Trace Fossils
Biology, Taxonomy and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
The new edition of this work includes an appendix listing criteria for the identification of ichnotaxa. It covers all aspects of tiering trace fossil diversity and ichnoguilds, and is aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduates in palaeoecology, paleobiology and sedimentology.
Annual Plant Reviews, Plant Polysaccharides
Biosynthesis and Bioengineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Plant Polysaccharides, an exceptional new volume in Wiley-Blackwell’s successful Annual Plant Reviews series, covers the polysaccharides and proteins that form the fundamental architecture of the plant cell wall, and the genes that encode the cellular machinery that synthesizes them.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 1996
As salmonids have been reared for more than a century in many countries, one might expect that principles are well established and provide a solid foundation for salmonid aquaculture. Indeed, some of the methods used today in salmonid rearing are nearly identical to those employed one hundred years...
Lysenko's Ghost
Epigenetics and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists now claim that discoveries in epigenetics prove that he was right after all. Loren Graham reopens the case, to determine whether new developments in molecular biology validate Lysenko’s claims.
Gene Therapy of Cancer
Translational Approaches from Preclinical Studies to Clinical Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
The Second Edition of Gene Therapy of Cancer provides crucial updates on the basic science and ongoing research in this field, examining the state of the art technology in gene therapy and its therapeutic applications to the treatment of cancer. The clinical chapters are improved to include new areas...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), tentatively defined as ncRNAs of more than two hundred nucleotides in length, are characterized by the complexity and diversity of their sequences and mechanisms of action. Based on genome-wide studies, more than 3,300 of them exist, but to date only the limited number...
by Dr. C. H. E. Sadaphal
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
The current scientific consensus champions evolution by natural selection as an indisputable fact. Resultantly, many tell us where the facts lead, but when actually examining the alleged evidence, what one unearths is quite shocking—that from the very beginning, the theory of evolution was built...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This book presents recent advances in translational research on muscular dystrophy (MD) to physicians and researchers, including cutting-edge research on the disease such as regenerative medicine, next-generation DNA sequencing, and nucleic acid therapies. It also describes the current systems for...
Therapeutic Angiogenesis for Vascular Diseases
Molecular Mechanisms and Targeted Clinical Approaches for the Treatment of Angiogenic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Angiogenesis is the growth of new blood vessels and is a key process which occurs during pathological disease progression. Excessive and damaging angiogenesis occurs in diseases such as cancer, diabetic retinopathies, age-related macular degeneration and atherosclerosis. In other diseases such as...
Perspectives in Translational Research in Life Sciences and Biomedicine
Translational Outcomes Research in Life Sciences and Translational Medicine, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
The present book addresses the multi-disciplinary nature of Translational Outcomes Research, which is a watershed for nearly all the disciplines of Life and Health Sciences, along with the Materials Sciences including but not limited to Zoology, Botany, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Physiology, Nanotechnology,...