Biochemie & Biophysik

Optical Coherence Tomography

Optical Coherence Tomography represents the ultimate noninvasive  ocular imaging technique although being in the field for over two-decades. This book encompasses both medical and technical devel...

Radioactivity Transfer in Environment and Food

Fokion K Vosniakos

The book deals with various consequences of major nuclear accidents, such as in 1986 in Chernobyl and in 2011 in Fukushima. The public is extremely interested in learning more about the movements ...

Handbook of Marine Natural Products

"Handbook of Marine Natural Products" takes a fresh approach to describing the major themes of research in this rapidly developing field. This two volume reference work begins with a sect...

The Cellular Response to the Genotoxic Insult

Genotoxic carcinogens can lead to DNA mutations with the potential to cause cancer. Typically, a series of mutation events are needed before malignancy occurs so a single, small exposure may not r...

Molecular Theory of the Living Cell

Sungchul Ji

<p>The book presents the first comprehensive molecular theory of the living cell ever published since the cell doctrine was formulated in 1838-1839. It introduces into cell biology over thir...

Physico-Chemical and Computational Approaches to Drug Discovery

Molecular modeling and simulation play a central role in academic and industrial research focused on physico-chemical properties and processes. The efforts carried out in this field have crystalli...

Selenoproteins and Mimics

<p>Selenium has a long history of association with human health and disease. This essential trace element exerts its important biological role in selenoproteins. "Selenoproteins and Mimi...

Designing Multi-Target Drugs

Multi-target drug discovery (MTDD) is an emerging area of increasing interest to the drug discovery community. Drugs that modulate several targets have the potential for an improved balance of eff...

Bioluminescence: Chemical Principles And Methods (Revised Edition)

Shimomura Osamu Shimomura

Challenges in Molecular Structure Determination

Manfred Reichenbächer / Jürgen Popp

Taking a problem-based approach, the authors provide a practice-oriented and systematic introduction to both organic and inorganic structure determination by spectroscopic methods. This includes m...

Feinstrukturelle, cytochemische und biochemische Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung und Welke des Teeblattes (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze)

Claudia Hepper

Schwarzer, grüner und roter Tee zählen zu den am meisten konsumierten Getränken der Welt. Sie werden vor allem aufgrund ihres besonderen Aromas und ihrer stimulierenden und gesundheitsfördernd...

Chemical Genomics

Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

Computational modeling is emerging as a powerful new approach to study and manipulate biological systems. Multiple methods have been developed to model, visualize, and rationally alter systems at ...

Regulatory RNAs

<p>Recent progress in high-throughput technologies and genome wide transcriptome studies have lead to a significant scientific milestone of discovering non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) which spans t...

NanoCellBiology of Secretion

Bhanu P. Jena

Understanding live cells at the single molecule level is the most important and single major challenge facing biology and medicine today. Over the past 15 years, there has been a renewed understan...

Mammalian Toxicology of Insecticides

Insects more similar in structure and physiology to mammals than plants or fungi. Consequently, insecticides are often of greater toxicity to mammals than herbicides. This is particularly the case...

From Sugar to Splenda

Bert Fraser-Reid

More than just coincidence connects a Tate &amp; Lyle lawsuit and artificial sweetener to Jamaican-born Chemist Bert Fraser-Reid. From his first experience of Chemistry through his diabetic fa...

Heteroaromatic Lipoxin A4 Analogues

Colm Duffy

<p>In this thesis Colm Duffy reviews the chemistry and biology of stable lipoxin analogues. Colm has prepared for the first time ever a pyridine-containing LXA4 analogue in enantiomerically ...

Biomimetic Membranes for Sensor and Separation Applications

<p>This book addresses the possibilities and challenges in mimicking biological membranes and creating membrane-based sensor and separation devices. Recent advances in developing biomimetic ...

Química física del ambiente y de los procesos medioambientales

Juan E. Figueruelo / Martín Marino Dávila

El presente libro constituye un valioso texto de licenciatura y postgrado en las asignaturas relacionadas con la química del medio ambiente que se imparten en diversas escuelas y facultades unive...