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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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    • Lipases

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2025
      • Evelin Andrade Manoel + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Lipases: Foundations, Applications, and Perspectives, a new volume in the Foundations and Frontiers of Enzymology series, offers a practical, in-depth discussion of lipases and instruction in their use across research and industry. Here, global experts in the field introduce readers to basic lipase biology and the history of the field, interfacial activation and lipase lids, evolving analytical techniques and technology for studying lipases, and a range of lipase applications, from health and drug discovery to biofuels, food, cosmetics, and waste treatment. Lipase sources and production methods discussed include mammalian lipases, microbial lipase production, biomass lipase production, immobilized lipases, and tailor-made recombinant lipases, among other approaches.

    • Novel Genetic Pathways Associated to Energy Homeostasis Impairments

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 113
      • May 23, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Novel Genetic Pathways Associated to Energy Homeostasis Impairments, Volume 113 in the Advances in Genetics series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Advances in Metabolism: Energy Balance Circuitry, Advances in Metabolism: Diabetic Retinopathy, From Metabolomics to Energy Balance Physiology, Advances in Metabolism: Prader-Willi Syndrome, Neural Mechanisms and Health Implications of Food Cravings During Pregnancy, Advances in Metabolism: Diabetes, Advances in Metabolism: Cachexi, and Parkinson’s Disease and Metabolic Disorders: Understanding Their Shared Co-Morbidity Through the Autonomic Nervous System.

    • Basics in Amino Acid Metabolism in Humans in Health and Disease

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Milan Holecek
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Basics in Amino Acid Metabolism in Humans in Health and Disease summarizes the significance of amino acids and their metabolism. This book provides a single source of information bringing together a wide variety of research on the subject, explaining the rationality and risks of using some amino acids as dietary supplements. The first chapters describe amino acids' structure, classification, and transport across cell membranes and their role in protein synthesis, gluconeogenesis, and ketogenesis. The central part of the book is focused on the role of individual amino acids in the synthesis of various biologically essential substances and their metabolism in acquired and hereditary diseases. The following chapters are dedicated to the role of particular organs, such as the small intestine, intestinal microbiota, liver, muscle, kidneys, brain, adipose tissue, and lungs. The next sections are focused on amino acid metabolism under various physiological (food intake, starvation, exercise, and elderly) and pathological (systemic inflammatory response, cirrhosis, diabetes, chronic renal insufficiency, and cancer) conditions. The last chapter summarizes the benefits and potential adverse effects of increased intake of individual amino acids. The author, Professor Milan Holeček, has been studying and researching in the area for over 40+ years. "Basics in Amino Acid Metabolism in Humans in Health and Disease" is written for healthcare professionals, primarily nutritionists, specialists in intensive metabolic care, clinical nutrition, diabetology, hepatology, gerontology, gastroenterology, nephrology, and oncology.

    • Bacterial Efflux Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 723
      • November 15, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Bacterial Efflux Systems, Volume 722 covers experimental and computational approaches to study the function, structure, and mechanism of bacterial efflux pump systems. The methods covered include preparation of samples for structural and functional analyses and in vivo activity analysis. Specific chapters in this release cover Efflux pump functional assays, NMR and functional analysis efflux pumps, Methods for saturation mutagenesis and functional characterization, Cooperation and functional interplay between pumps, Mapping interactions, HDX-MS, and much more.Other sections cover Recombinant Expression and purification, Reconstitution of a RND efflux pump in different artificial membranes for a structural biology approach, Reconstitution of rnd and mfs efflux pumps for structural biology, CusCBA system, Expression and purification of efflux pumps of Gram positives, Expression and purification of efflux pumps of archaea, ABC transporters: BmrA preparation for NMR and PatA/PatB in peptidisc, In situ structural analysis of efflux assemblies by cryoET, Molecular dynamics simulations, and so much more.

    • Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology

      • 2nd Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Raina Robeva
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology: Using Modern Discrete Models, Second Edition presents an updated, quantitative framework for analyzing, predicting, and modulating complex biological systems. Structured around project-based learning and problem-solving, it integrates essential mathematical concepts and methods in the context of key biological questions. Topics include gene regulatory and neuronal networks, CpG islands, plant population growth, interacting populations, phylogenetics, and phylogenomics. Modeling tools span discrete dynamical systems (including deterministic and stochastic Boolean networks), ordinary differential equations, projection matrices, agent-based modeling, polynomial ideals, Gröbner bases, tropical algebra, and other algebraic approaches. Computation is supported by a range of software tools, including some developed for this book, as well as open source, freely available, and proprietary platforms. Updated code examples and step-by-step instructions illustrate software use, making this a valuable resource for health professionals, scientists, researchers, and students in related fields.

    • Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer - Part D

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 390
      • January 27, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer, Part D, Volume 390 in the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of hot topics, including Revisiting Epigenetic Regulation in Cancer: Evolving Trends and Translational Implications, Epigenetic Alteration in Cervical Cancer Induced by Human Papillomavirus, Integrative analysis of transcriptome, chromatin accessibility, cell surface antigen in single cell level for AML, Role of miRNAs as epigenetic regulators of immune checkpoints in lung cancer immunity, and much more.Other chapters cover The translational potential of epigenetic modulatory bioactive phytochemicals as adjuvant therapy against cancer, Strategies for improving chemotherapeutic sensitivity and the epigenetic regulation of doxorubicin resistance, and more.

    • Host Adaptation, Virulence, and Evolution

      • 1st Edition
      • February 24, 2025
      • Javid Ahmad Parray + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Microbial Genomics: Host Adaptation, Virulence, and Evolution covers different aspects of microbial genomics, metagenomics, and functional studies of microbes that have provided a significant understanding of microbial-host interactions, virulence function, host adaptation mechanisms, including microbial evolution. Microbial Genomics: Host Adaptation, virulence, and Evolution is a comprehensive source on the latest updates and applications of microbial genomics information to understand the plant, microbe interaction, host adaptation, virulence nature of the infectious pathogen, microbial evolution, host-pathogen interactions contribute to shaping the genetic diversity of both organisms. Sections include an introduction to Microbial Genomics, followed by sections on Plant Microbiome, Genome Editing Prospecting and Approaches, Microbial virulanse and disease incidence. The final section of the book covers Microbial Genomics and evolutionary concepts. “Microbial Genomics: Host Adaptation, virulence, and Evolution” is a valuable resource for faculty members, researchers, and undergraduate and postgraduate students at universities, medical research labs, industries, and government agencies that are interested in the microbial science specific to the microbial genome, virulence function of pathogenic microbes, host adaptation, evolution of microbes, and all other disciplines related to molecular microbiology.

    • Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 42
      • December 1, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly, Volume 42 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

    • Advances in Clinical Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 125
      • February 26, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Clinical Chemistry, Volume 125, the latest installment in this internationally acclaimed series, contains chapters authored by world-renowned clinical laboratory scientists, physicians, and research scientists. Content covered in this new release includes, Spotting Targets with 2D-DIGE Proteomics, Extracellular Vesicles and MicroRNAs in Cancer Progression, Brain white matter damage biomarkers, Cell-cell junctional proteins in cancer, Advances in Periodontal Healing Biomarkers, and Preeclampsia and Eclampsia: Role of Hemolytic Protozoan Iron.

    • Biophysics of Life

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Biophysics of Life: Origin and Evolution explores the biophysical mechanisms involved in the formation and evolution of life. The book considers a range of topics including the history of life’s physical evolution, physics laws governing the origin of life, biophysical and biochemical principles in the building blocks of life, biomolecular mutations, physics and quantum mechanical interpretations of evolution. Biophysical and biochemical techniques for sequencing life’s origins are also explored, as well as bioinformatics and AI algorithms tracking the origins of life. Additionally biophysics of life in extreme conditions is considered, as well as biophysics of artificial life. Physics laws govern most of the molecular processes associated with biological life, and this book seeks to investigate this in the context of the origin and development of life, and consider how life’s maturation happened as a result of the coordinated actions of physics, chemistry, and biology. This is an important reference for researchers working across biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, and related fields.

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