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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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    • Advances in Applied Microbiology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 130
      • June 24, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 130 continues the comprehensive reach of this widely read and authoritative review source in microbiology where users will find invaluable references and information on a variety of areas relating to the topics of microbiology.

    • Human- Centric Integration of Next-Generation Data Science and Blockchain Technology

      • 1st Edition
      • March 17, 2025
      • Amit Kumar Tyagi + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Human- Centric Integration of Next Generation Data Science and Blockchain Technology: Advancing Society 5.0 Paradigms focuses on the current technological landscape, addressing the evolving integration of data science and blockchain within the context of Society 5.0. This comprehensive resource explains the convergences between data science, blockchain, and the human-centric vision of Society 5.0, while also filling the gap in understanding and navigating this transformative intersection with recent shifts towards more decentralized and data-driven paradigms.The book introduces the concept of Society 5.0, examining the historical context, and outlines the evolving technological landscape shaping our interconnected future. It discusses the fundamental principles of data science, from data collection and preprocessing to exploratory data analysis and explains the transformative impact of data science and blockchain across industries such as healthcare, finance, education, and transportation. This book is essential to understanding and shaping the future of technology and society from decentralized solutions to predictive analytics/ emerging technologies.

    • Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence Applications for Biometrics and Biomedical Devices

      • 1st Edition
      • June 1, 2025
      • Aditya Khamparia + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence Applications for Biometrics and Biomedical Devices focuses on the intersection of biometric-driven computational approaches and techniques within a connected multi-modal environment, particularly emphasizing their applications in healthcare. The book explores cutting-edge methodological approaches that leverage technologies like blockchain and integrate them with information fusion, data security for medical devices, and trust management. Readers with find this to be a comprehensive overview of the topics covered, including machine learning and deep learning for biomedical-based biometrics, computational medical imaging techniques, security strategies for healthcare systems, AI technology for multimodal biometrics, and feature reduction techniques.Other sections cover blockchain and fog computing models for medical sensor data storage and evolutionary optimization for biometric feature identification and recognition, amongst others.

    • Medical Robotics and Intelligent Healthcare Technologies

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2025
      • Jacky Baltes + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Medical Robotics and Intelligent Healthcare Technologies: AI Applications to Improve Healthcare in Developing Countries is an essential reference for professionals and researchers in fields such as biomedical engineering, health informatics, bioelectronics, medical electronics, physiology, and robotics. This book presents the latest advancements in AI and machine learning-based robotics applications, enabling readers to quickly grasp effective methods and compare various approaches. Addressing critical research areas that directly impact human life and health fills a significant market gap, providing valuable insights into AI, deep learning, machine learning, and big data analytics methods as they relate to emerging robotics research models in the biomedical and healthcare domains.It offers a comprehensive understanding of the concepts, themes, and tools in medical robotics, IoT-based applications, edge computing, and artificial intelligence. With a specific focus on developing countries, this book catalyzes healthcare progress by showcasing the potential of medical robotics and intelligent healthcare technologies. It aims to empower researchers and practitioners to harness these state-of-the-art technologies to improve healthcare systems worldwide.

    • Eye Melanoma Unveiled

      • 1st Edition
      • August 25, 2025
      • Bhupendra G. Prajapati + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Eye Melanoma Unveiled: Cutting-Edge Diagnosis, Revolutionary Treatments and Advanced Drug Delivery delves into the latest advancements in drug delivery systems for diagnosing and treating eye melanoma. Compiled by leading scientists globally, the book thoroughly examines innovative drug delivery techniques utilized in uveal melanoma treatments, beginning with an overview of the disease's epidemiology, risk factors, pathogenesis, and molecular mechanisms. The book further discusses imaging techniques and diagnostic methods essential for precise disease identification.Despi... stable incidence rates over the past thirty years and enhanced local treatments, survival rates for uveal melanoma have not notably improved. Recent genetic and cytogenetic developments have improved prognostication and cancer identification with high metastatic potential. This book is invaluable for specialists in drug formulation and delivery, eye oncologists, translational researchers, and life scientists.

    • Digital Health Maturity: Quality, Interoperability, and Innovation

      • 1st Edition
      • August 28, 2025
      • Siaw-Teng Liaw + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Digital Health Maturity: Quality, Interoperability, and Innovation provides a roadmap to move from endless pilots and ad hoc system purchase to a systematic, stepwise, and integrated approach to increasing digital health capacity. Specific guidelines, tools, and use cases are discussed to show how the digital health maturity metamodel (DHM3) can be put into actual practice. The book discusses topics such as foundations of digital health and how to put them into practice; organizational considerations for implementation; and best practices, tools, and pitfalls to avoid. In addition, it discusses the future of digital transformation and the impact of a global adherence to digital health. It is a valuable resource for researchers, students, policy makers, governments and anyone who is interested in learning more about digital health and its benefits worldwide.

    • Advances in Cancer Research

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 168
      • December 1, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Cancer Research, Volume 168 in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Plasticity in cell adhesion during cancer progression, AEG-1 on Cancer Drug Resistance: From Molecular Insights to Therapeutic Challenges, Multimodal AI to differentiate tumor progression from treatment effect in glioblastoma, The Role of Epigenetic Modifications in Mediating Cancer Health Disparities, In search of a targetable immune profile for acute myeloid leukemia, Notch signaling in tumorigenesis and maintenance of cancer stem cells, and much more.

    • Nanodermatology

      • 1st Edition
      • August 28, 2025
      • Alka Lohani + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Nanodermatology: Advances in Theory and Practice navigates the evolving landscape of skincare, offering a deep dive into the principles, innovations, and practical implications of nanotechnology in dermatological research and practice. The book addresses both basic and clinical aspects and conveys practical insights needed to navigate the complexities of nanodermatology through applied case studies, real-world examples, and actionable recommendations. From fundamental principles to diagnostic techniques, therapeutic interventions, safety considerations, ethics, and regulation, it offers practical insights for advancing nanodermatology research and application. Additionally, the inclusion of clinical uses and regulatory considerations ensures that the book offers guidance for translating nanodermatology research into practice.From enhancing drug delivery systems to advancing cosmetic formulations, this authoritative guide illuminates the cutting-edge advancements shaping the future of skincare, making it an indispensable resource for researchers, clinicians, and students alike.

    • Exhaled Breath Analysis

      • 1st Edition
      • August 18, 2025
      • Artur Rydosz
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Exhaled Breath Analysis: Current Status, Challenges and Future Perspectives presents the exhaled breath analysis process, starting with the fundamentals and background, moving to current approaches and applications, and concludes with challenges the field faces, along with the future outlook. The exhaled breath analysis process (EBAP) is dynamically changing, resulting in hard to follow research and conference papers, very often not covering the actual process. The book informs the reader on how to prepare research in the field, how to design the measurement protocol, and how to use biomarkers for analyzation, as well as the applications available for clinical practice.Primarily written for biomedical engineers and medical doctors, the book is also useful for hospital technicians, as well as those in PhD level Medicine and Engineering courses.

    • Comprehensive Chemistry and Biology of Coumarins Scaffold

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Shehryar Hameed + 2 more
      • English
      Comprehensive Chemistry and Biology of Coumarins Scaffold covers detailed methods and protocols to synthetize Coumarin derivatives and different applications and future perspectives for these compounds. Coumarin-Based Scaffolds plays an important role in organic, bioorganic, and medicinal chemistry as they act as a bridge between chemistry, life sciences, and biochemical investigations. Coumarin is an important scaffold for designing, generating a wide variety of chemical libraries and drug-like candidates to obtain desired therapeutic and pharmacological properties. Specific functional groups are covered as well as the synthesis of bioactive compounds against specific pathological conditions.The discovery of new coumarin-based drug candidates during the last decades has been covered to assist the pharmaceutical, bioorganic and medicinal chemists for their further research on coumarin-based molecules.

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