Biochemie & Biophysik

Bioinformatics: Sequence Alignment and Markov Models

Kal Renganathan Sharma

Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales

Evolution is a critical challenge for many areas of science, technology and development of society. The book reviews general evolutionary facts such as origin of life and evolution of the genome a...

Iron Metabolism

Iron plays a crucial role in many biochemical processes. In recent years intensive research has led to a better understanding of the function of iron in cellular metabolism. In more than twenty ar...

Microcharacterization of Proteins

Helmut E. Meyer / Roland Kellner / Friedrich Lottspeich

Proteomics - the analysis of the whole set of proteins and their functions in a cell - is based on the revolutionary developments which have been achieved in protein analysis during the last years...

Mechanosensitivity of the Nervous System

<P>This book presents the latest findings in mechanosensitivity of the nervous system. The nervous system stands out from a number of tissues because besides reacting to the mechanical stres...

Isotopes in Biochemistry

The <b>Novartis Foundation Series</b> is a popular collection of the proceedings from <i>Novartis Foundation Symposia</i>, in which groups of leading scientists from a rang...

Biochemie - Zellbiologie

Dieser Band zur Biochemie/Zellbiologie vermittelt Dir die Grundlagen zur Struktur und Funktion der Zelle als kleinster Lebenseinheit: biochemische Prozesse, Energetik, Aufbau und Organisation der ...

Molecular Imaging: Computer Reconstruction and Practice

This volume collects the lectures presented at the ninth ESI School held at Archamps (FR) in November 2006 and is dedicated to nuclear physics applications in molecular imaging. The lectures focus...

Applications of Mass Spectrometry in Life Safety

This book brings into focus the hot topics of life science for which mass spectrometry is becoming THE tool of analysis, and provides a comprehensive review of the research topics most pertinent t...

Biological Invasions Belowground: Earthworms as Invasive Species

<P>The papers in this book are based on efforts by an international group of soil ecologists to assess the biological and ecological mechanisms of earthworm invasions. They examine their geo...

Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes

<P>Increasing evidence suggests that the composition and spatial configuration – the pattern – of forest landscapes affect many ecological processes, including the movement and persisten...

Schaum's Outline of General, Organic, and Biochemistry for Nursing and Allied Health, Second Edition

Ira Blei

Fish and Diadromy in Europe (ecology, management, conservation)

<P>Most of the diadromous fish of the world have decreased in distribution and abundance since the beginning of the twentieth century. They are now threatened, and important conservation iss...

Deep-water Coral Reefs

Martin Hovland

<P>Deep-water coral reefs are found along large sections of the outer continental shelves and slopes of Europe, from North Cape to the Gulf of Cadiz, and because they also occur along the At...

Light Scattering Reviews 3

Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

<P>This is the 3rd volume of a "Light Scattering Reviews" series devoted to current knowledge of light scattering problems and both experimental and theoretical research techniques r...

Molekulare Medizin

Matthias W. Hentze / Christian Hagemeier / Claus R. Bartram

Write Like a Chemist

Marin Robinson

The Principles of Clinical Cytogenetics

In the summer of 1989, one of us (SLG), along with his mentor, Dorothy Warb- ton, attended the Tenth International Workshop on Human Gene Mapping. The me- ing was held at Yale University in celebr...

Regulation of Gene Expression

Gary H. Perdew / Jack P. Vanden Heuvel / Jeffrey M. Peters

Biophotonics

<P>More profound understanding of the nature of light and light-matter interactions in biology has enabled many applications in the biology and medical fields. So a new discipline is born, n...