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Books in Life sciences

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.

    • Advancing Brain Cancer Care

      • 1st Edition
      • August 22, 2025
      • Zodwa Dlamini
      • English
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      Advancing Brain Cancer Care: Precision, AI Innovation, and African Insights delves into the intricate challenges of brain tumor management, offering cutting-edge solutions tailored to individual patients. Emphasizing the African perspective, it explores the use of innovative technologies to bridge care gaps and improve outcomes in underserved regions. By combining science, technology, and regional expertise, the book offers hope for patients and practitioners alike. Beyond its focus on brain tumor care, the book highlights the ethical considerations of AI integration into healthcare systems. It examines how precision medicine can reshape treatment pathways while addressing inequities in global access to care.Additionally, it provides a deep dive into collaborative efforts across continents, showcasing case studies and actionable insights that push the boundaries of conventional healthcare solutions. This vital resource is both an inspiration and a guide for those committed to advancing cancer care worldwide.
    • Innovation in Nephrology

      • 1st Edition
      • November 21, 2024
      • Adam E.M. Eltorai + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Innovation in Nephrology: Technology Development and Commercialization Handbook is a step-by-step guide to nephrology technology innovation reflects recent trends of industry globalization and value-conscious healthcare. Written by a team of medical, engineering, and business experts, the authors provide a comprehensive resource that leads clinicians, students, researchers, and entrepreneurs through a clear process for the identification, invention, and implementation of new solutions. Case studies on innovative products from around the world, successes and failures, practical advice, and end-of-chapter 'Getting Started' sections encourage readers to learn from real projects and apply important lessons to their own work. In short, this book will be of interest to every nephrologist who has ever had a good idea for an invention but does not know where and how to start bringing it to the bedside.
    • Computational Intelligence in Protein-Ligand Interaction Analysis

      • 1st Edition
      • March 22, 2024
      • Bing Wang + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Computational Intelligence in Protein-Ligand Interaction Analysis presents computational techniques for predicting protein-ligand interactions, recognizing protein interaction sites, and identifying protein drug targets. The book emphasizes novel approaches to protein-ligand interactions, including machine learning and deep learning, presenting a state-of-the-art suite of skills for researchers. The volume represents a resource for scientists, detailing the fundamentals of computational methods, showing how to use computational algorithms to study protein interaction data, and giving scientific explanations for biological data through computational intelligence. Fourteen chapters offer a comprehensive guide to protein interaction data and computational intelligence methods for protein-ligand interactions.
    • Population Genomics in the Developing World

      • 1st Edition
      • November 10, 2024
      • Marlo Möller + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Population Genomics in the Developing World: Concepts, Applications, and Challenges, a new volume in the Translational and Applied Genomics series, provides a comprehensive, up-to-date summary of the field of population genomics in developing countries. This book equips students, researchers, and clinicians with the practical skills and approaches necessary to face the unique challenges and opportunities of practicing population genomics in developing countries. Following a brief foundational overview, more than a dozen authors working in developing nations share applied case studies from the field, including rationale, methods, analysis, and outcomes to reinforce understanding. Key themes across the country-specific chapters include efficient genetic data generation and effective computational and statistical tools to analyze population-level data. This book then discusses clinical interpretation of these data, from direct-to-consumer ancestry testing to translational and applied precision medicine. A final chapter considers the ethical aspects of conducting genomic research in developing countries.
    • Deciding with Children in Pediatrics

      • 1st Edition
      • October 16, 2024
      • John Massie + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Deciding with Children in Pediatrics: Children’s Participation in Healthcare Decision-making provides the ethical underpinning and offers practical strategies to foster meaningful participation of children in decisions affecting their healthcare. It will assist clinicians to bring forward the perspectives and values of the child, ensuring their preferences are incorporated into decision-making or appropriately justified when this is not possible. This is to both improve healthcare delivery and serve the best interests of children— now and as decision-makers in the future.This book reviews theories underpinning the concept of deciding with children and explores how pediatric decision-making is standardly managed. It then proposes a model for making healthcare decisions with children. A panel of experienced clinicians and ethicists demonstrate, via a series of case studies, how to promote children’s participation across a variety of clinical areas, child ages, and developmental stages. It concludes with a review of questions, concerns, and challenges. Deciding with Children in Pediatrics: Children’s Participation in Healthcare Decision-making helps bridge the gap between philosophy and practical clinical ethics and creates a frame of reference for children’s healthcare providers.
    • Pathophysiology, Risk Factors, and Management of Chronic Heart Failure

      • 1st Edition
      • April 4, 2024
      • Ram B. Singh + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Chronic Heart Failure: Pathophysiology, Risk Factors, and Mechanisms aims to provide an inclusive overview on Chronic Heart Failure (CHF).This book is focused on the epidemiology, classification, molecular mechanisms, pathophysiology, causes, identification and interactions of heart failure. It will explain the uncertainties and issues in Heart Failure by helping readers understand the physiopathology of CHF in the light of behavioural risk factors. 2D and 3D speckle tracking echocardiography have been used to quantify regional alterations of longitudinal strain and area strain, through their polar projection, which allows a further evaluation of both the site and extent of myocardial damage. The analysis of strain can identify subclinical cardiac failure (myocyte remodelling) which is a major issue in CHF. Myocardial Strain, measure by speckle tracking echocardiography, is frequently attenuated in these conditions and can be utilized for the evaluation of disease progression and the effect of therapeutic interventions as well as prevention because it could be a manifestation of behavioural risk factors.This title will function as an essential reference to both researchers and practicing clinicians, proposing novel methods of research by using behavioural and environmental risk factors as intervention agents, as well as discussing deficiency in the present approaches in management of HF and proposing new methods of early diagnosis and therapies for the clinical management of CHF.
    • Immune Therapy for Pancreatic and Colon Cancers

      • 1st Edition
      • November 26, 2024
      • Ganji Purnachandra Nagaraju + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Immune Therapy for Pancreatic and Colon Cancer expands the knowledge on pathways, immune modulators, immune check points, and monoclonal antibodies that can lead to appropriate cancer treatment. With a strong focus on the development of immune therapies to improve the survival rates of pancreatic and colon cancer, this book also shows the latest trends in immune targeted approaches for cancer treatment. Sections describe the role of and the immune response to pancreatic and colon cancer, gives insights to past and current immunotherapies, including metabolic reprogramming, immune blockade therapy and immune modulation.This book is a valuable resource for health professionals, scientists and researchers, students, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge of the advances in immunotherapy in pancreatic and colon cancer, inspire them and guide their design of novel experimental projects and translational studies.
    • Innovation in Anesthesiology

      • 1st Edition
      • April 29, 2024
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Innovation in Anesthesiology: Technology, Development, and Commercialization Handbook reflects recent trends of industry globalization and value-conscious healthcare. Written by a team of leading anesthesiologists, engineering development professionals, business analysts, commercialization experts, regulatory and reimbursement specialists, and legal authorities, this volume in the Clinical and Medical Innovation series provides a clear process for the identifi cation, invention, and implementation of new solutions in anesthesiology. This is the ideal resource for anesthesiology innovators who desire to deliver patient solutions and applications to their inventions. Featured case studies on innovative products highlighting the stages required are included for reference.The book will lead researchers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, and investors through a clear process for the identification, invention, and implementation of new clinical technology solutions. Expert medical device inventor/entrepreneu... provide case studies on globally innovative products including successes, failures and practical advice. The book will be a key reference for entrepreneurs developing emerging technology in anesthesia, investors funding innovation in anesthesia, life science business leaders seeking to understand market trends in technology development, tech transfer offices determining prioritization of patenting dollars, distributors seeking to understand trends in anesthesia technology, as well as researchers and engineers seeking to understand market development needs and trends.
    • Predictive Analytics using MATLAB(R) for Biomedical Applications

      • 1st Edition
      • September 26, 2024
      • L. Ashok Kumar
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Predictive Analytics using MATLAB(R) for Biomedical Applications is a comprehensive and practical guide for biomedical engineers, data scientists, and researchers on how to use predictive analytics techniques in MATLAB(R) for solving real-world biomedical problems. The book offers a technical overview of various predictive analytics methods and covers the utilization of MATLAB(R) for implementing these techniques. It includes several case studies that demonstrate how predictive analytics can be applied to real-world biomedical problems, such as predicting disease progression, analyzing medical imaging data, and optimizing treatment outcomes.With a plethora of examples and exercises, this book is the ultimate tool for reinforcing one’s knowledge and skills.
    • Paper-Based Optical Chemosensors

      • 1st Edition
      • November 13, 2024
      • Liang Feng
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Paper-based Optical Chemosensors comprehensively discusses the origin, development, and current state-of-the-art in paper-based sensors. With a focus on the principles, classifications, methodology, design, and application of paper-based sensors, this book represents a developing research field with recent innovative applications resulting in a comprehensive presentation of the different physico-chemical techniques using paper sensors. It discloses underlying rules and factors in paper-based sensors and discusses intricate sensing systems and working environments by ways of chemistry and physics for a variety of application scenarios such as environmental protection, food safety, public safety, and clinical diagnosis.This is a valuable resource for researchers who major in analytical chemistry, or for those who are interested in the development of methods or devices for rapid analysis/monitoring based on paper/membrane-based sensors who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.