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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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    • Primary Brain Tumors in Adults: Advances in Mechanistic Understanding, Evaluation, and Management

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 166
      • July 17, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Primary Brain Tumors in Adults: Advances in Mechanistic Understanding, Evaluation, and Management, Volume 166 in the Advances in Cancer Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Molecular drivers in primary brain tumor formation, Novel CSF pathways in the glioma (DIPG), Volumetric analysis in low grade gliomas and other advanced MR imaging techniques, Liquid biopsy in the diagnosis of primary brain tumors, Intraoperative imaging techniques to improve tumor detection, and much more.Additional chapters focus on Supramaximal resection in primary brain tumors, Radiotherapeutic approaches: IMRT, re-irradiation, Molecularly driven therapies in the treatment of primary brain tumors, and Changes in the immune microenvironment and immunotherapeutic strategies in the treatment of gliomas.

    • Generative AI, Large Language Models, Graph Neural Networks and Knowledge Graphs Applications

      • 1st Edition
      • November 21, 2025
      • Abdulhamit Subasi
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 4 4 5 9 8 9
      Generative AI, Large Language Models, Graph Neural Networks, and Knowledge Graphs Applications provides a comprehensive exploration of transformative technologies reshaping artificial intelligence. This book bridges the gap between advanced AI concepts and their real-world applications, offering readers a robust understanding of how these technologies can solve complex, interdisciplinary problems. The content covers the foundational principles of Generative AI, LLMs, GNNs, and Knowledge Graphs, highlighting their interconnections and collaborative potential. Through practical examples and real-world case studies, it illustrates their applications across diverse fields such as healthcare and finance, making complex concepts accessible and actionable. For academics, researchers, and industry professionals, this book offers invaluable insights and practical guidance. By emphasizing hands-on learning and clear explanations, it equips readers with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate and implement cutting-edge AI technologies, ensuring they remain at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field.

    • Medical Devices in Modern Healthcare

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Sougata Jana + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 2 8 2 9 9
      Medical Devices in Modern Healthcare: Current Research on New Materials and Engineering, Device Evaluation and Regulatory Implications provides a comprehensive approach to existing and future technological developments in medical devices and their role in biomedical engineering. In particular, the book looks at the fabrication/manufact... of medical devices across a wide range of device sectors. Importantly, regulatory perspectives and implications are considered in detail.

    • Biotechnology

      • 3rd Edition
      • July 14, 2025
      • David P. Clark + 3 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 8 4 8 5 7
      Biotechnology: The Technological Applications of Genetics and Genomics, Third Edition, approaches modern biotechnology from a molecular basis, discussing how the fields of genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, and biochemistry are merging their respective discoveries into the expanding applied field of biotechnology. Each chapter starts with basic concepts that develop into more specific and detailed applications, providing readers with a good image of possibilities and current limitations in the field and future research directions.This new edition has been fully revised and updated to include research advances, and has new chapters on artificial intelligence, genome editing, precision and personalized medicine, and more. This book is an invaluable resource to anyone interested in understanding what molecular biotechnology is as a scientific discipline, how research in this area is conducted, and how this technology may impact the future.

    • Protein and Peptide Therapeutics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 212
      • March 25, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

    • 3D Bioprinting in Cancer Applications

      • 1st Edition
      • June 16, 2025
      • Fahima Dilnawaz + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 6 5 1 8 1
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 6 5 1 9 8
      3D Bioprinting in Cancer Applications is an all-encompassing guide covering both fundamentals concerning biofabrication principles and intricate protocols for precise construction of biomimetric 3D systems supporting advanced cell culture development that faithfully recapitulates human disease hallmarks, with a special focus on cancer. This title fills the void left by existing publications overlooking essential aspects associated with combining multimodal medical imaging alongside precision cancer treatment options. In 12 chapters 3D Bioprinting in Cancer Applications leads the reader from an introduction to bioprinting technologies for cancer models, to models for immunotherapy and tumour-immune interaction, to biomimetrics 3D models to the applications of all these models in 3D bioprinted cancer models . 3D Bioprinting in Cancer Applications uniquely combines distinct modalities under a unified framework suitable not only for seasoned veterans but also newly minted trainees encountering these sophisticated practices for the first time.

    • Colorectal Imaging

      • 1st Edition
      • February 17, 2025
      • Luca Saba
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Colorectal Imaging: From Basic to Advanced Concepts provides an exhaustive overview of today’s basic and advanced principles of colorectal imaging, focusing not only on oncologic but also inflammatory, infective, and ischemic pathologies and complications. The book reviews basic colorectal cancer information, examines imaging techniques and analysis, and concludes with a review of non-neoplastic pathologies. It is a useful resource for scientists, physicians, and medical students in the discipline of radiology, highlighting the critical role of contemporary imaging in guiding clinical and surgical approaches and providing the knowledge needed to confidently choose the most appropriate imaging examination.

    • Medications for Older Persons

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Roger Thomas
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 0 2 6 8
      Medications for Older Persons: Recommendations, Harms, Evidence provides a comprehensive resource detailing the benefits of medications for older individuals. It also addresses the potential harms associated with the prescription of potentially inappropriate medications or omissions in prescribing and examines how many adverse events, rehospitalizations, and deaths can be attributed to these medications. The book opens with a summary of medications that most benefit older patients, followed by the impact of older persons’ alcohol consumption, self-medication, and medication list accuracy and how these factors correlate to health outcomes.The remainder of the book is devoted to the assessment of medication groups focusing on Numbers Needed to Treat, Numbers Needed to Harm, and characteristics and numbers of adverse events. Medication groups covered include cardiovascular, central nervous system, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, respiratory, endocrine, pain, and fall prevention.

    • Primer Design

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 57
      • June 10, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Primer Design, Volume 57 in the Methods in Microbiology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Methods on discriminating between bacterial strains, Primers to PCR and qPCR techniques, and more.

    • Translational Gastroenterology

      • 1st Edition
      • April 18, 2025
      • Adam E.M. Eltorai + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Translational Gastroenterology covers the principles of evidence-based medicine and applies these principles to the design of translational investigations. Readers will learn important concepts, including case-control study, prospective cohort study, randomized trials, and reliability study. Medical researchers will benefit from greater confidence in their ability to initiate and execute their own investigations, avoid common pitfalls in gastroenterology, and know what is needed in collaboration. Further, this title is an indispensable tool in grant writing and funding efforts. The practical, straightforward approach helps the aspiring investigator navigate challenging considerations in study design and implementation.The book provides valuable discussions of the critical appraisal of published studies in gastroenterology, allowing the reader to learn how to evaluate the quality of such studies with respect to measuring outcomes and to make effective use of all types of evidence in patient care. In short, this practical guidebook will be of interest to every medical researcher or gastroenterologist who has ever had a good clinical idea but not the knowledge of how to test it.

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