Category: Biotechnology

By G. J. Persley

"Banana and plantain are the fourth most crucial worldwide nutrition crop and export commodity. Their creation offers an important resource of source of revenue for farmers in constructing nations via neighborhood and foreign trade." learn tasks, funded by way of the area financial institution and its companions for the Banana development venture (BIP), have resulted in fascinating discoveries, contributed massive worthy new wisdom, and proven powerful collaboration and linkages that might proceed into the longer term. This e-book is a distillation of all the documentation, highlighting the real results and affects of the study funded through BIP. BIP funded 18 examine tasks in 4 huge technical components, biotechnology, germplasm assortment and characterization, plant development, and pest and affliction administration. It had major pursuits: 1. To advance and assessment more advantageous banana types with export capability, which might contain elevated productiveness and sturdy affliction resistance via traditional and nonconventional breeding concepts. 2. To strengthen extra effective and built-in sickness administration practices.

By M. Raafat El-Gewely

The Biotechnology Annual assessment covers some of the advancements in biotechnology within the type of finished, illustrated and good referenced reports. With the growth of the sector of biotechnology, coupled with the mammoth elevate within the variety of new journals reporting fresh ends up in this box, the necessity for a booklet that's consistently supplying reports is pressing. consequently, each one quantity of the Biotechnology Annual evaluate could have a couple of studies masking assorted points of biotechnology. Reviewed themes will comprise biotechnology purposes in medication, agriculture, marine biology, undefined, bioremedation and the surroundings. basic difficulties facing bettering the technical wisdom encountering biotechnology usage whatever the box of program should be rather emphasised. This sequence might help either scholars and academics, researchers in addition to directors to stay an expert on all suitable concerns in biotechnology.

Proposals for contributions and/or feedback for issues for destiny volumes during this sequence might be despatched to the Editor: professor M.R. El-Gewely division of Biotechnology college of Tromslø IMB, MH-Bygget N-9037 Tromsø Norway Tel: (+47) seventy seven 644000 Fax: (+47) seventy seven 645350

By Christian Larroche, M. Angeles Sanroman, Guocheng Du, Ashok Pandey

Current advancements in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Bioprocesses, Bioreactors and Controls offers vast assurance of latest advancements, state of the art applied sciences, and capability destiny developments, reviewing business biotechnology and bioengineering practices that facilitate and increase the transition of approaches from lab to plant scale, that is changing into more and more very important as such transitions keep growing in frequency.

Focusing on business bioprocesses, bioreactors for bioprocesses, and controls for bioprocesses, this name reports business perform to spot bottlenecks and suggest options, highlighting that the optimum keep an eye on of a bioprocess includes not just maximization of product yield, but additionally taking into consideration parameters comparable to caliber coverage and environmental points.

• Describes business bioprocesses according to the response media
• Lists the kind of bioreactors used for a selected bioprocess/application
• Outlines the rules of regulate structures in numerous bioprocesses

By Athel Cornish-Bowden

Now in its fourth version, this textbook is among the few titles world wide to hide enzyme kinetics in its complete scope and the single one to incorporate its implications for bioinformatics and structures biology. Multi-enzyme complexes and cooperativity are consequently handled in additional aspect than in the other textbook out there.
The revered and renowned writer is without doubt one of the such a lot skilled researchers into the subject and writes with amazing type and didactic readability. As with the former variants, he offers right here steady-state kinetics and quickly reactions, supplementing every one bankruptcy with difficulties and strategies. For the 1st time, this variation includes a better half web site delivering all figures in color
www.wiley-vch.de/home/fundenzykinet

By Bruce E Rittmann

In Environmental Biotechnology-Principles and purposes, the authors attach the various diverse points of environmental biotechnology. The publication develops the fundamental techniques and quantitative instruments within the first six chapters, which contain the rules. The textual content continuously calls upon these ideas because it describes the purposes in Chapters 7 via sixteen. The subject is that every one microbiological procedures behave in ways in which are comprehensible, predictable, and unified. whilst, every one software has its personal particular positive aspects that has to be understood. The unique gains don't overturn or dodge the typical ideas. in its place, they supplement the foundations and are so much profitably understood in mild of the foundations.

By Istvan Hargittai

This useful publication comprises 36 interviews, together with 26 with Nobel laureates. It offers a cross-section of biomedical technology, a box that has been dominant in technological know-how for the earlier part century. The in-depth conversations conceal very important examine components and discoveries, in addition to the roads to those discoveries, together with points of the scientists' paintings that by no means observed book. in addition they deliver out the humanness of the recognized scientists - the reader learns approximately their backgrounds, aspirations, failings, and triumphs. The e-book is illustrated with snapshots of the conversations and photographs supplied through the interviewees. it's a follow-up to the severely acclaimed Candid technological know-how: Conversations with recognized Chemists, by means of an analogous writer.

By John K. Leypoldt

Basic engineering ideas are necessary to think of whilst designing and constructing synthetic organs, specially the factitious kidney. Early participants to the advance of the substitute kidney have been essentially chemical and electric engineers who built more advantageous hemodialysis membranes, equipment for generating huge amounts of dialysis strategies and straightforward to take advantage of machines or dialysis supply platforms. Efforts alongside those traces proceed this day to enhance hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis cures.

Recent engineering efforts to enhance synthetic kidney cures have focussed on constructing a greater knowing of the impression of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis on sufferer body structure or pathophysiology and to enhance stronger remedies utilizing fresh advances in tissue, mobile and genetic engineering. Investigators energetic in those parts have contributed authoritative chapters to this publication.

The concentration of this booklet was once to supply bioengineers and different researchers with entire studies of energetic examine relating to the factitious kidney. each one bankruptcy starts off from first ideas and develops the subject to incorporate the latest study. The bankruptcy authors are specialists of their respective fields. This method will let either the coed and the professional to realize an intensive knowing of the study area.

By Willem F. Wolkers, Harriëtte Oldenhof

This quantity presents numerous common protocols used to cryopreserve or freeze-dry kinds of specimens. moreover, it presents chapters all in favour of the basic ideas of cryopreservation, vitrification, and freeze-drying. numerous state-of-the-art microscopic, spectroscopic in addition to calorimetric tools are highlighted that may be used to check mobile and macromolecular alterations in line with freezing or drying. Written within the hugely winning Methods in Molecular Biology sequence structure, chapters contain introductions to their respective subject matters, lists of the required fabrics and reagents, step by step, comfortably reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips about troubleshooting and keeping off recognized pitfalls.

Authoritative and functional, Cryopreservation and Freeze-Drying Protocols, 3rd Edition serves as a pragmatic guide for reports on freezing and drying strategies in addition to maintenance recommendations for organic specimens.

By Stephen Saddow Ph.D

provides the most recent info in this wide-band-gap semiconductor fabric that the physique doesn't reject as a international (i.e., no longer natural) fabric and its strength to additional develop biomedical functions.

SiC units supply excessive energy densities and coffee strength losses, allowing lighter, extra compact, and better potency items for biocompatible and long term in vivo purposes, together with center stent coatings, bone implant scaffolds, neurological implants and sensors, glucose sensors, brain-machine-interface units, clever bone implants, and organ implants.

This publication presents the fabrics and biomedical engineering groups with a seminal reference booklet on SiC for constructing know-how, and is a source for practitioners desirous to determine and enforce complex engineering recommendations to their daily scientific difficulties for which they presently lack long term, affordable solutions.

• Discusses the houses, processing, characterization, and alertness of silicon carbide biomedical fabrics and similar technology
• Assesses literature, patents, and FDA approvals for medical trials, permitting swift assimilation of information from present disparate resources and selling the transition from know-how R&D, to medical trials
• Includes extra on functions and units, corresponding to SiC nanowires, biofunctionalized units, micro-electrode arrays, middle stent/cardiovascular coatings, and non-stop glucose sensors, during this new edition

By Jaya Arora, Shaily Goyal, Kishan Gopal Ramawat (auth.), K.G. Ramawat (eds.)

Deserts seem very interesting in the course of our brief visits. besides the fact that, the lives of crops and animals are very dif?cult less than the tough weather conditions of excessive tempe- ture and scant water offer in deserts, occasionally linked to excessive concent- tions of salt. The editor of this ebook used to be born and taken up within the nice Indian wasteland, and has spent a lot of his existence learning the expansion and metabolism of wilderness crops. it's very fascinating on a funky summer time night to take a seat on the best of a sand dune listening purely to blowing air and not anything else. it's been my dream to arrange a quantity on wasteland vegetation encompassing a number of facets of wasteland plant biology. during this booklet, i've got attempted to give sensible and worthy features of the crops assets of deserts besides scienti?c enter geared toward knowing and impr- ing the application of those vegetation. The scant plants of deserts helps animal existence and gives many helpful medicinal drugs, trees and gas wooden for people. for this reason, there are chapters dedicated to medicinal vegetation (Chap. 1), halophytes (Chaps. thirteen, 14), and fruit crops (Chaps. 17, 20). wilderness vegetation have a different reproductive biology (Chaps. 9–11), well-adapted eco-physiological and anatomical charact- istics (Chap. 7), and specialized metabolism and survival skills. those vegetation are dif?cult to propagate and pose many difficulties to researchers constructing biote- nological ways for his or her amelioration (Chaps. 18–20).