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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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    • Biological Membrane Vesicles: Scientific, Biotechnological and Clinical Considerations Part 2

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 33
      • April 1, 2021
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Biological Membrane Vesicles: Scientific, Biotechnological and Clinical Considerations, Part Two, Volume 33 in the Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly series, highlights new advances in the field, with sections in this new release covering Biomembranes of extracellular vesicles: The protein component, Protocol for isolation of Microvesicles form blood plasma, Urinary Extracellular vesicles at single patient level for clinical research, Treatment of chronic wounds with platelet and extracellular vesicles enriched plasma, Liposome loading and imaging, The Potential of Extracellular Vesicles for Brain Repair, Nucleic acids cargo of extracellular vesicles: Analysis and physiological function, Propolis flavonoids and terpenes, and much more.

    • Diabetes Secrets

      • 1st Edition
      • November 25, 2021
      • Michael T. McDermott
      • Jennifer M. Trujillo
      • English
      • Paperback
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      For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. A new volume in this trusted series, Diabetes Secrets offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic field. It features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

    • Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy IV

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 162
      • March 8, 2021
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy IV, Volume 162, a new volume in the Methods in Cell Biology series, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. Besides the detailed description of protocols for CLEM technologies including time-resolution, Super resolution LM and Volume EM, new chapters cover Workflow (dis)-advantages/spi... Serial section LM + EM, Platinum clusters as CLEM probes, Correlative Light Electron Microscopy with a transition metal complex as a single probe, SEM-TEM-SIMS, HPF-CLEM, A new workflow for high-throughput screening of mitotic mammalian cells for electron microscopy using classic histological dyes, and more.

    • Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry

      • 3rd Edition
      • July 29, 2021
      • Joseph Jez
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, Six Volume Set has always been characterized by its unique and comprehensive content. Since publication of the 2nd edition, many important discoveries have been made leading to novel concepts in several areas of biochemistry, and new technologies have advanced our understanding of key processes of life. All of these advances are included in the new and expanded third edition. With its 6 volumes, this is the most up-to-date and complete resource on biochemistry and molecular biology, provided through contributions by leading experts in the field.

    • Ion Channels: Channel Production and Optical Methods

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 653
      • June 5, 2021
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Ion Channels Part B, Volume 652 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including NMDAR, Pannexin, and CALHM, Making NaV1.4 and NaV1.7, TRPVs, Purification native nAChRs, GABAR Radu Aricescu, TRPV5/2, NaV1.5, KATP, TRPA1, TREK-1, SARS-CoV-2 3a ion channel, Ion channel conformational dynamics by encoded unnatural amino acid, Fluorescence lifetime measurement of absolute membrane potential, Fluorescent Toxins as Activity Sensors, FRET Analyses of Ion Channel Protein-Protein Interactions, Control of Ion Channel Gating with Photo-Switchable Tweezers, and Counting Subunits in Kv Channel Complexes.

    • mRNA 3’ End Processing and Metabolism

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 655
      • June 25, 2021
      • English
      • Hardback
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      mRNA 3’ End Processing and Stability, Volume 655 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

    • Ion Channels: Channel Chemical Biology, Engineering, and Physiological Function

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 654
      • June 12, 2021
      • English
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      Ion Channels, Part C, Volume 653 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Nonsense suppression in ion channels, Engineering Ion Channels Using Protein Trans-splicing, Probing Ion Channel Neighborhoods Using APEX, STX based probes for NaVs, ANAP: a versatile, fluorescent probe of ion channel gating and regulation, High Throughput Screens for Small Molecule Ion Channel Modulators, Using toxins to study ion channels, Re/de-constructing ubiquitin regulation of ion channels, Tethered Peptide Toxins for Ion Channels, Voltage-Sensing Phosphatase Molecular Engineering, and more. Additional chapters cover Engineering excitable cells, Stretch and Poke Stimulation of Mechanically-Activat... Ion Channels, Optical Control of STIM Channels, High Throughput Electrophysiological Evaluation of Mutant Ion Channels, Evaluating BEST1 Mutations in RPE Stem Cells, Long Read Transcript Profiling of Ion Channel Splice Variants, Permeation of Connexin Channels, Ratiometric pH indicator for melanosomes and lysosomes, and Ion channels in the epithelial cells of the choroid plexus.

    • Synthetic and Enzymatic Modifications of the Peptide Backbone

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 656
      • July 27, 2021
      • English
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      Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

    • Liquid-Liquid Phase Coexistence and Membraneless Organelles

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 646
      • January 14, 2021
      • English
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      Methods in Enzymology, Volume 646, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. Chapters in this new release include Methods for Studying RNA condensation/granule... in vitro, RNA Dynamics in Intracellular Condensates, Methods for Viscoelastic Characterization of Liquid and Gel Condensates, Incorporating Proteins into Complex Coacervates, Methods for Study of Liquid-Liquid Phase Coexistence in Proximity to Lipid Membranes, Preparation of and Solute Partitioning in Multiphase Coacervates, Reversible photocontrol of DNA coacervation, Enzymatic Control over Coacervation, and much more.

    • Enzymatic Plastic Degradation

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 648
      • February 10, 2021
      • English
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      Enzymatic Plastic Degradation, Volume 648 in the Methods in Enzymology series, continues the legacy of this premier serial with chapters authored by leaders in the field. Chapters in this latest release include Evaluating plastic pollution and environmental degradation, Assessment methods for microplastic pollution in the oceans and fresh water, Exploring microbial consortia from various environments for plastic degradation, Characterization of filamentous fungi for attack on synthetic polymers via biological Fenton chemistry, Synthesis of radioactive-labeled nanoplastics for assaying the environmental (microbial) PS degradation, Exploring metagenome for plastic degrading enzymes, Cutinases from thermophilic bacteria (actinomycetes): from identification to functional and structural characterization, and much more.

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