Biochemistry Books

Vaccines are hailed as the miracle of medical innovation attributed to saving millions of lives. Everyone is taught to believe that vaccinations are responsible for ridding the world of dreaded diseases such as smallpox and polio. This view summarized...

What is occupational toxicology? Occupational toxicology is the science that studies the effects of toxins on workers, the public, and the environment caused by substances and processes used in the workplace. It is a branch of toxicology that...

Chemistry and Technology of Plant Substances: Chemical and Biochemical Aspects demonstrates the progress and promise of developing new chemical substances from renewable sources of chemical raw materials. The volume brings together new achievements in...

Biochemistry is the branch of science which deals with studying the chemical processes taking place in or related to living organisms. It incorporates studies regarding cells, examining components like proteins, lipids, organelles, etc. The scientists...

Methods in Yeast Genetics is a course that has been offered annually at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for the last 45 years. This is an updated edition of the course manual, which provides a set of teaching experiments, along with protocols and recipes...

The convergence of biology and computer science was initially motivated by the need to organize and process a growing number of biological observations resulting from rapid advances in experimental techniques. Today, however, close collaboration between...

The biological sciences have been among the most exciting and intensely pursued fields of science for the past several decades. The advancement of high-throughput technologies that generate large scale biological data as well as the development of...

With its ability to explore the surface of the sample by means of a local scanning probe and its use of dedicated software allows to be visualize results, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has revolutionized the study of the smallest aspects of life. Atomic...

Cell Imaging is rapidly evolving as new technologies and new imaging advances continue to be introduced. In the second edition of Cell Imaging Techniques: Methods and Protocols expands upon the previous editions with current techniques that includes...

Part I: Basic Statistics1. Experimental Statistics for Biological SciencesHeejung Bang and Marie Davidian2. Nonparametric Methods in Molecular BiologyKnut M. Wittkowski and Tingting Song3. Basics of Bayesian MethodsSujit K. Ghosh4. The Bayesian t-Test...

This updated and expanded book was written with the underlying conviction that global health and nutrition problems can only be solved through a firm understanding of the different levels of causality and the interactions between the various determinants...

Contemporary approaches to the synthesis of chemically modified biomacromolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates) not only require efficient means to control conjugation and the specific site of attachment of the conjugated moiety...

Recent findings have implied a distinct therapeutic potential for drugs targeting Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels in a wide variety of diseases, many with no existing satisfactory treatment options. Thus, the TRP superfamily of ion channels...

Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging represents a technique that is indispensable in every day biomedical diagnostics. Thanks to the numerous ways to manipulate and detect an NMR signal, it is possible to obtain a variety of information with excellent...

In this essential new volume, Volume 13: Membrane and Desalination Technologies, a panel of expert researchers provide a wealth of information on membrane and desalination technologies. An advanced chemical and environmental engineering textbook as well...

For more than a century, microscopy has been a centerpiece of extraordinary discoveries in biology. Along the way, remarkable imaging tools have been developed allowing scientists to dissect the complexity of cellular processes at the nano length...

Nutrients have been recognized as essential for maximum growth, successful reproduction, and infection prevention since the 1940s; since that time, the lion's share of nutrient research has focused on defining their role in...

Chemical changes that occur in foods during processing and storage are manifold and might be both desirable and undesirable in nature. While many of the processes are carried out intentionally, there are also certain unwanted...

Most of the world's experts on prions met for a workshop in Erice in August 1996. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the fundamentals of the science ofprions. It was for­ tunate that so many could be present given the...

John E. Kinsella, Dean ofthe College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California-Davis, passed away on May 2, 1993, at the age of 55. In August 1995, fonner students and post-doctoral fellows of...

The subject for a volume on the fat-soluble vitamins needs no justification considering the importance of this group of nutrients and the rate of expan­ sion of our knowledge of its role in cell biology, genetics, and disease...

Diversity within and among living organisms is both a biological impera­ tive and a biological conundrum. Phenotypic and genotypic diversity is the critical currency ofecological interactions and the evolution of life. Thus, it...

Mixed Metals: Or Metallic Alloys is a book written by Arthur Horseman Hiorns and originally published in 1890. This book provides a comprehensive overview of metallic alloys, including their composition, properties, and uses. Hiorns covers a wide range...

""Researches On The Nature And Treatment Of Diabetes"" is a medical book written by Frederick William Pavy and first published in 1869. The book focuses on the study of diabetes, a disease that affects the body's ability to produce or use insulin,...

The book ""The Electrolysis Of Organic Compounds: Papers (1900)"" by Hermann Kolbe is a collection of scientific papers written by Kolbe on the topic of electrolysis of organic compounds. The book was published in the year 1900 and contains a total of...

On Certain Indications Of The Existence Of An Allotropic Modification Of Elementary Nitrogen: And On The Synthesis Of Ammonia is a scientific book written by George Stillingfleet Johnson in 1885. The book explores the possibility of the existence of an...

""Biological Studies On Three Species Of Aphididae"" is a scientific book written by John June Davis in 1909. The book provides an in-depth analysis and study of three different species of aphids. The author explores the morphology, anatomy, and behavior...

Herbal Constituents, 2nd Edition, is a concise yet thorough textbook for students and practitioners of botanical medicine (e.g., medical herbalists, naturopaths, holistic practitioners, pharmacists, physicians). Using examples from commonly employed...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Chemistry - Bio-chemistry, grade: none, Madonna University Elele, Nigeria, course: Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, language: English, abstract: The in vitro antimicrobial activity of...

Starch is an important determinant for the texture of many foodstuffs, and it is widely used in industrial applications as a thickener, stabilizer, gelling agent, and adhesive. The effects of starch are related to its gelatinization and retrogradation...

Ecotoxicology is the study of the effects of pollutants present in the atmosphere on population, wildlife and the environment. This book discusses the imminent dangers that are faced by our ecosystem due to long-term waste mismanagement and pollution. ...

This book on protein biochemistry explains themes related to protein bonding, protein folding and other similar protein dynamics that occur at a molecular level. The study of proteins is very important for the understanding of DNA molecules as they help...

The various sub-fields of robotics along with technological progress that have future implications are glanced at in this book. This discipline is multidisciplinary in nature borrowing from fields such as mechanical engineering and computer science that...

Previous Cold Spring Harbor Symposia have addressed many different aspects of RNA biology such as Mechanisms of Transcription (1998), The Ribosome (2001), Epigenetics (2004) and Regulatory RNAs (2006). The 84th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium focused on RNA...

Exercise training provokes widespread transformations in the human body, requiring coordinated changes in muscle composition, blood flow, neuronal and hormonal signaling, and metabolism. These changes enhance physical performance, improve mental health,...

Human embryos, it has been said, ""have no muscles, nerves, digestive system, feet, hands, face, or brain; they have nothing to distinguish them as a human being, and if one of them died, no one would mourn as they would for one of us."" Consequently,...

Lipases are the most applied enzymes in organic synthesis due to their broad substrate acceptance and because of the availability of the molecular, biochemical, themodynamical and solvent engineering tools, which allows the optimization of lipases and...

The basic principle of electron crystallography is to calculate a 3D density map by combining the amplitudes obtained from electron diffraction patterns with the experimental phases calculated from images of two-dimensional crystals of membrane or...

The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) and ubiquitin-related modifiers are not only involved in cellular protein quality control but also in the regulation of many fundamental cellular processes/pathways as well as in their disease-relevant aberrations...

The advent of non-invasive imaging technology, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has allowed biologists and clinicians to make great strides in unraveling the secrets of the brain. In Magnetic Resonance Neuroimaging: Methods and Protocols, expert...

This is the second edition of the comprehensive, concise summary of apoptosis research. It covers the major concepts, molecular architecture, the biochemical pathways, and pathophysiological significance of apoptosis. This book provides a guideline of...

Handbook of Food Fortification and Health: From Concepts to Public Health Applications Volume 2 represents a multidisciplinary approach to food fortification. This book aims to disseminate important material pertaining to the fortification of foods from...

Nuclear G-Protein Coupled Receptors: Methods and Protocols is a compilation of a number of conceptual and methodological aspects important for the validation and characterization of intacrine signaling systems. To date, the best-characterized intracrine...

This volume expands upon the previous edition with current, detailed protocols for investigating membranes and their component lipids in artificial membranes, cells, and in silico. Chapters focus on properties of the component lipids, membranes and their...