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Elsevier's Life Sciences collection helps researchers get comprehensive coverage and up-to-date information on the study of living organisms, their processes, and interrelationships, spanning disciplines like biology, genetics, and biochemistry, and addressing emerging trends such as genomics, biotechnology, and sustainability, essential for advancing knowledge and driving innovation in the field.

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    • Human Microbiome in Health and Disease - Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 192
      • October 22, 2022
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Human Microbiome in Health and Disease, Volume 192, Part B includes chapters surrounding the role of human microbiome in different diseases. Chapters in this comprehensive new volume include The microbiome and communicable diseases, Gut Microbiome and Antimicrobial Resistance in bacterial pathogens, Dysbiosis of human microbiome and infectious disease, Gastrointestinal microbiome in the context of infection in stomach and gastroduodenal diseases, Respiratory tract microbiome and pneumonia, Gut microbiome and neonatal sepsis, Diarrheal disease and gut microbiome, The microbiome and non-communicable diseases, Gut microbiome and inflammatory bowel disease, Gut microbiome and undernutrition, Human microbiome and cardiovascular disease, and much more.

    • DNA Damage and Double Strand Breaks Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 52
      • November 17, 2022
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Intersection of Iron and Lipid Metabolism, Volume 52 in the Enzymes series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics relating to enzymes research.

    • Foot and Ankle Biomechanics

      • 1st Edition
      • December 5, 2022
      • William Ledoux + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Foot and Ankle Biomechanics is a one source, comprehensive and modern reference regarding foot and ankle biomechanics. This text serves as both a master reference for foot biomechanics, presenting a clear state of the research and capabilities in the field. The customers for this book will be those looking for information on foot and ankle biomechanics for a range of applications; for example, designers of orthotics.

    • Tissue Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • January 25, 2022
      • Chandra P. Sharma + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Tissue Engineering: Current Status and Challenges bridges the gap between biomedical scientists and clinical practitioners. The work reviews the history of tissue engineering, covers the basics required for the beginner, and inspires those in the field toward future research and application emerging in this fast-moving field. Written by global experts in the field for those studying and researching tissue engineering, the book reviews regenerative technologies, stem cell research and regeneration of organs. It then moves to soft tissue engineering (heart, vascular, muscle and 3D scaffolding and printing), hard tissue engineering (bone, dental myocardial and musculoskeletal) and translational avenues in the field.

    • Big Data Analytics for Healthcare

      • 1st Edition
      • May 19, 2022
      • Pantea Keikhosrokiani
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Big Data Analytics and Medical Information Systems presents the valuable use of artificial intelligence and big data analytics in healthcare and medical sciences. It focuses on theories, methods and approaches in which data analytic techniques can be used to examine medical data to provide a meaningful pattern for classification, diagnosis, treatment, and prediction of diseases. The book discusses topics such as theories and concepts of the field, and how big medical data mining techniques and applications can be applied to classification, diagnosis, treatment, and prediction of diseases. In addition, it covers social, behavioral, and medical fake news analytics to prevent medical misinformation and myths. It is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers and members of biomedical field who are interested in learning more about analytic tools to support their work.

    • Twin Research for Everyone

      • 1st Edition
      • August 17, 2022
      • Adam D. Tarnoki + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Twin Research: Biology, Health, Epigenetics, and Psychology is a comprehensive, applied resource in twinning and twin studies that is grounded in the most impactful findings from twin research in recent years. While targeted to undergraduate and graduate students, this compendium will prove a valuable resource for scholars already familiar with twin studies, as well as those coming to the field for the first time. Here, more than forty experts across an array of disciplines examine twinning and twin research methodologies from the perspectives of biology, medicine, genetic and epigenetic influences, and neuroscience. Chapters provide clear instruction in both basic and advanced research methods, family and parenting aspects of twinning, twin studies as applied across various disease areas and medical specialties, genetic and epigenetic determinants of differentiation, and academic, neurological and cognitive development. The presentation of existing studies and methods instruction empowers students and researchers to apply twin-based research and advance new studies across a range of biomedical and behavioral fields, highlighting current research trends and future directions.

    • Perinatal and Developmental Epigenetics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 35
      • December 2, 2022
      • Garima Singh
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Perinatal and Developmental Epigenetics, Volume 32, a new volume in the Translational Epigenetics series, provides a thorough overview of epigenetics in the early developmental and perinatal stages, illuminating pathways for drug discovery and clinical advances. Here, over 25 international researchers examine recent steps forward in our understanding of epigenetic programming during perinatal and early development. The book opens with an in-depth introduction to known and newly discovered epigenetic marks and how they regulate various cellular processes. Later sections examine various prenatal and perinatal environmental experiences and their ability to derail the normal developmental trajectory via epigenetic reprogramming. Insights and suggestions for future research illuminate approaches for identifying individual disease susceptibility. Concluding chapters highlight preventative and targeted therapeutic pathways to improve quality of life into adulthood.

    • Obesity and Esophageal Disorders

      • 1st Edition
      • June 25, 2022
      • Dhyanesh Patel + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Obesity and Esophageal Disorders is a comprehensive review on the impact of obesity on esophageal disorders and how to approach, recognize and treat those disorders. Covering the critical gap in awareness on the impact of obesity on esophageal disorders, this reference presents the newest diagnostic technologies, including high resolution manometry, EndoFLIP, wireless pH monitoring, and mucosal integrity devices. The book shows treatment options like bariatric surgery and endo-bariatrics that decrease the latency period for diagnosis and management of patients. Finally, the understanding of the potential effects of different bariatric surgeries on esophageal motility is explored. This importance reference serves researchers looking to determine future projects by providing novel pathophysiologic mechanisms about how obesity affects GERD and esophageal motility. It serves clinicians, surgeons and trainees with guidance on diagnostic approaches, management options, and how to recognize/treat post-surgical esophageal complications of patients with obesity.

    • Biotechnology in Healthcare, Volume 1

      • 1st Edition
      • March 30, 2022
      • Debmalya Barh
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Biotechnology in Healthcare, Technologies and Innovations, Volume One presents up-to-date knowledge on the emerging field of biotechnology as applied to the healthcare industry. Sections cover 3D printing, tissue engineering, synthetic biology, nano-biotechnology, omics, precision medicine, gene therapy, vaccine development, predictive healthcare, entrepreneurship, financing, business models, product development and marketing in the sector. This is a valuable source for biotechnologists, bioinformaticians, clinicians and members of biomedical and healthcare fields who need to understand more about the promising developments of the emerging field of biotechnology in healthcare.

    • Protein Kinase Inhibitors

      • 1st Edition
      • May 19, 2022
      • Md. Imtaiyaz Hassan + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Protein Kinase Inhibitors: From Discovery to Therapeutics offers a foundational, pragmatic overview of protein kinases inhibitors and their potential role in disease modulation and treatment. Here, international experts in the field offer an integrated discussion of kinase inhibitor biology, biomarker discovery, and methods for drug design and development. After a brief overview of kinases and kinase inhibitors, subsequent chapters discuss individual kinases that are representative of the wider kinases and kinase families, including their roles in disease pathogenesis, underlying mechanisms, potential inhibitors and their modes of action for therapeutic modulation. Several potential drugs under different stages of clinical trials are discussed, including their relevance to cancer, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular, neurological, and auto-immune and inflammatory disease, among other disorders. The book also addresses the challenges and opportunities for future kinase inhibitor development.

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