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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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    • Comprehensive Biotechnology

      • 3rd Edition
      • July 17, 2019
      • Murray Moo-Young
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Comprehensive Biotechnology, Third Edition, Six Volume Set unifies, in a single source, a huge amount of information in this growing field. The book covers scientific fundamentals, along with engineering considerations and applications in industry, agriculture, medicine, the environment and socio-economics, including the related government regulatory overviews. This new edition builds on the solid basis provided by previous editions, incorporating all recent advances in the field since the second edition was published in 2011.

    • Echinoderms

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 150
      • February 16, 2019
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Echinoderms, Volume 150 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this update presenting interesting chapters on procuring animals and culturing of eggs and embryos, cryopreservation of sea urchin gametes, emerging echinoderm models, culturing of sand dollars, cidaroids and heart urchins, culturing echinoderm larvae through metamorphosis, microinjection methods, injection of exogenous messages and protein overexpression, blastomere transplantation, visualization of embryonic polarity, larval immune cell approaches, methods for analysis of sea urchin primordial germ cells, and protocols and best practices for toxicology and pH studies using echinoderms and　several new chapters outlining the use of sea urchins in the classroom.

    • Immunotherapy of Cancer

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 143
      • June 13, 2019
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Immunotherapy of Cancer, Volume 143, the latest release in the Advances in Cancer Research series, provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Contributions from leading experts in the field make this a must have update on the topic.

    • Chemical and Synthetic Biology Approaches to Understand Cellular Functions - Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 622
      • May 30, 2019
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Chemical and Synthetic Biology Approaches To Understand Cellular Functions - Part B, Volume 622, the latest release in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting chapters that cover the Design of optogenetic proteins, the Application of optogenetic proteins, Antibody aggregation mechanism probed by a fluorescently-labele... antibody with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Bimane labeling of B-arrestins to measure their interaction with GPCRs, Reversible biotinylation of proteins for investigating their interaction with partners, Chemical biology approaches to study RNA cytidine acetylation, Salt sensitive intein in robotic production of peptides, and much more.

    • Advances in Clinical Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 89
      • February 21, 2019
      • Gregory S. Makowski
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Clinical Chemistry, Volume 89, the latest installment in this internationally acclaimed series, contains chapters authored by world-renowned clinical laboratory scientists, physicians and research scientists. The serial discusses the latest and most up-to-date technologies related to the field of clinical chemistry, and is the benchmark for novel analytical approaches in the clinical laboratory.

    • Molecular Chaperones in Human Disorders

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 114
      • January 9, 2019
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Molecular Chaperones in Human Disorders, Volume 114 in the Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology series, provides an overview of current developments in mechanisms underlying DNA repair and their involvement in maintaining chromatin repair, the balance between chromosomal repair pathways, tumorigenesis, immune signaling and infection-induced inflammation. Chapters in this new release cover Functional principles and regulation of molecular chaperones, Chaperones and retinal disorders, Protein misfolding and degradation in genetic diseases, Chaperone dysfunction in hereditary myopathic diseases, Diseases caused by functional disorder of molecular chaperones residing in the endoplasmic reticulum, and many other timely topics.

    • Enzymatic Polymerizations

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 627
      • October 14, 2019
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Enzymatic Polymerizations, Volume 627 in the Methods in Enzymology series, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field.

    • Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-like Protein Modifiers

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 618
      • March 6, 2019
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Ubiquitination and Protein Stability - Part A Volume 618, the latest release in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapter written by an international board of authors. Topics of note in this new release include the Preparation of ubiquitinated nucleosomes with native and non-hydrolyzable linkages, Methods to measure ubiquitin chain length and linkage, Genetic approaches to study the yeast ubiquitin system, Enzymatic preparation of monoubiquitinated proteins, Methods to distinguish the function of ubiquitin in autophagy and the proteasome pathway, the Purification and characterization of enzyme activity of USPs, and much more.

    • Epidermal Stem Cell Niche

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 3
      • August 9, 2019
      • Mirna Perez-Moreno
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances in Stem Cells and Their Niches, Volume Three, comprises a compilation of the latest findings on our understanding of skin biology. It extends the current knowledge on skin stem cells and provides in-depth discussions on their unique settings, niches and properties. Chapters in this new release include The biophysical regulation of epidermal fate and function, Epidermal stem cell lineages, Hair shaft progenitors that create a niche for hair pigmentation, Dermal papilla cells control of hair follicle growth and pigmentation, Molecular mechanisms regulating the hair follicle niche, Dermal fibroblasts and their niches and interactions with epidermal stem cells.

    • Cancer Stem Cells

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 141
      • January 26, 2019
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 141 in the Advances in Cancer Research series, presents the latest release in this ongoing, well-regarded serial that provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Topics covered in this new release include SIX-EYA-DACH network control of cancer stem cell properties, Dormancy and the cancer cell niche, Clonal hematopoiesis: A hematopoietic stem cell disorder of aging, Stringent assays to study human breast cancer stem cells, Regulation of breast cancer stem cell specification and maintenance by hypoxia-inducible factors, Cancer stem cells in breast and prostate: fact or fiction, and much more.

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