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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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    • Tissue Barriers in Disease, Injury and Regeneration

      • 1st Edition
      • June 19, 2021
      • Nikolai V. Gorbunov
      • English
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      Tissue Barriers in Disease, Injury and Regeneration focuses on the molecular and cellular fundamentals of homeostatic and defense responses of tissue barriers, covering the damaging impacts and exposure to pathogens and engineered nanomaterials. Sections emphasize the role of mesenchymal stoma, vascular, epithelial, telocyte, myofibroblast, lymphoid and reticuloendothelial cells, along with reactions that bridge the effects of ambient factors, medical treatments, drag delivery systems with alterations in barrier integrity, tissue/organ functions, and metabolic status. Other sections cover the role of progenitor cells of different origins in the remodeling and regeneration of tissue stroma, vasculature of blood-tissue barriers, and more.

    • New Methods and Sensors for Membrane and Cell Volume Research

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 88
      • November 29, 2021
      • English
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      New Methods and Sensors for Membrane and Cell Volume Research, Volume 88 provides an overview of novel experimental approaches to study both the cell membrane and the under-membrane space – the cytosol, which have lately began drawing renewed attention. The book's overall emphasis is on fluorescent and FRET-based sensors, however, other optical (such as variants of transmission microscopy) and non-optical methods (neutron scattering and mass spectrometry) also have dedicated chapters. This volume provides a rare review of experimental approaches to study intracellular phase transitions, as well as anion channels, membrane tension and dynamics, and other topics of intense current interest.

    • Hormones and Aging

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 115
      • February 26, 2021
      • Gerald Litwack
      • English
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      Hormones and Aging, Volume 115 in the Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely topics, including hypothalamic aging and hormones, endocannabinoids and aging-inflammation, neuroplasticity, mood and pain, the impact of hormones and bone loss across the menopause transition, and much more.

    • Pancreatic B Cell Biology in Health and Disease

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 359
      • April 6, 2021
      • English
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      Pancreatic B Cell Biology in Health and Disease, Volume 360 presents the latest release in this ongoing series on the novel and widely studied physiology of pancreatic cells in homeostasis and under pathogenic conditions. This new volume includes new chapters on a variety of topics, including Pancreatic Beta Cell Dysfunction in Type 1 Diabetes: The Role of Ifn, Sexual Hormones and Diabetes: The Impact in Pancreatic Beta Cell, Pancreatic Beta Cell Dysfunction in Monogenic Diabetes, The Role of MiRNAs In Beta Cell Function, Pancreatic Beta Cell: How Environmental Endocrine Disruptors Alter Its Function, Enteroviral Infections and Pancreatic Beta Cell Dysfunction, and more. Final sections cover Long Non-Coding Rna-Regulated Pathways in Pancreatic Beta Cell: Their Role in Diabetes and Pancreatic Beta Cell Biology in Health and Disease.

    • Advances in Microbial Physiology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 78
      • June 15, 2021
      • Robert K. Poole + 1 more
      • English
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      Advances in Microbial Physiology, Volume 78, the latest release in this ongoing series, continues the long tradition of topical, important, cutting-edge reviews in microbiology. This updated release contains the latest information in the field, with comprehensive chapters covering Microbubble Intensification of Bioprocessing, Bacterial cellulose: biosynthesis, production, and applications, Microbial energy management – a product of three broad tradeoffs, and more.

    • Advances in Aggregation Induced Emission Materials in Biosensing and Imaging for Biomedical Applications - Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 185
      • November 15, 2021
      • English
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      Advances in Aggregation Induced Emission Materials in Biosensing and Imaging for Biomedical Applications - Part B, Volume 185 presents many aspects of AIE materials that can help future investigators, researchers, students and stakeholders perform research with ease. This volume covers various topics, including tissue and protein fibrils imaging by AIE active molecules, theranostic and photodynamic therapy applications of AIE materials for cancer cell treatment, and AIE active polymers and MOF materials for biological applications. Fluorescence-based monitoring and diagnosis platforms furnish extensive insights into the molecular mechanisms of cellular processes, helping us precisely guide therapeutics.

    • Proteomics and Systems Biology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 127
      • July 23, 2021
      • English
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      Proteomics and Systems Biology, Volume 127 in the Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology series, outlines current proteomic methodologies and discuss the challenges in future applications of systems biology in a number of biomedical/bioscienc... subjects. In last few decades, advances in genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, glycomics, venomics, etc., have produced vast large-scale datasets that need to be analyzed with a single main objective of understanding biological systems as a whole. Such understanding will allow us to predict and characterize the dynamic properties of biological systems.

    • Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms - Part A

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 365
      • October 21, 2021
      • English
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      Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms - Part A, Volume 365 in the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology series reviews and details current advances in cell and molecular biology. Chapters in this new release include MPN a continuum of different disease entities, Bone marrow microenvironment of MPN, Extramedullary hemopoiesis in MPN, The JAK2 mutation, Calreticulin mutations in myeloproliferative neoplasms, and Cytogenetic abnormalities and non-driver mutations in MPN. The IRCMB series has a worldwide readership, maintaining a high standard by publishing invited articles on important and timely topics that are authored by prominent cell and molecular biologists. The articles published in IRCMB have a high impact and an average cited half-life of 9 years. This great resource ranks high amongst scientific journals dealing with cell biology.

    • Curing Genetic Diseases through Genome Reprogramming

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 182
      • June 23, 2021
      • English
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      Curing Genetic Diseases through Genome Reprogramming, Volume 182 captures an historic moment in the field of gene therapy—the dawn of a new age in which the dream of curing genetic diseases has become realizable. The volume presents the most clinically advanced gene therapy and genome editing approaches for the treatment of genetic diseases in specific organs, including difficult therapeutic targets, futuristic ideas of genetic interventions, and large scale human genome repair. An initial chapter addresses the complex ethical aspects involved in the very idea of modifying the human genome.

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