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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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    • Responsible and Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

      • 1st Edition
      • November 14, 2024
      • Akansha Singh + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Responsible and Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Ethics and Transparency at the Intersection provides clear guidance on building trustworthy Artificial Intelligence systems for healthcare. The book focuses on using Artificial Intelligence to improve diagnosis, prevent diseases, and personalize patient care. It addresses potential drawbacks, like reduced human interaction and ethical concerns, offering solutions for ethical and transparent Artificial Intelligence use in medicine. Across eight chapters, the book explores Artificial Intelligence's current status, its importance, and associated risks in healthcare. It explains designing reliable Artificial Intelligence for healthcare, tackling biases, and safeguarding patient privacy in the age of big data. The legal and regulatory landscape is also covered. One chapter is dedicated to showcasing real-world examples of responsible Artificial Intelligence in healthcare, highlighting best practices. The book concludes by summarizing key takeaways and discussing future challenges. "Responsible and Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Ethics and Transparency at the Intersection" is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, policymakers, computer scientists, and ethicists concerned about Artificial Intelligence's ethical and societal impact on medicine.

    • Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics

      • 7th Edition
      • November 14, 2024
      • Reed E. Pyeritz + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Clinical Genetics**For decades, Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics has served as the ultimate resource for clinicians integrating genetics and genomics into medical practice. With detailed coverage in contributions from more than 250 of the world’s most trusted authorities in medical genetics and a series of 11 volumes available for individual sale, the seventh edition of this classic reference includes the latest information on seminal topics such as prenatal diagnosis, genome sequencing, public health genetics, and genetic counseling. Volumes 3–11 cover diagnosis, management, and treatment of both rare and common disorders in all organ systems. Students, medical providers, and researchers all benefit from the latest information about the role of the genome in health and disease. This comprehensive yet practical resource emphasizes theory and research fundamentals across the full spectrum of applications to medicine.In this volume, leading physicians and researchers thoroughly examine medical genetics and genomics as applied to endocrine, skin, connective tissue and skeletal disorders, with emphasis on understanding the genetic mechanisms underlying these conditions, diagnostic approaches, and treatment methods that make use of current genomic technologies and translational studies.With regular advances in genomic technologies propelling precision medicine into the clinic, Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics, seventh edition, bridges the gap between high-level molecular genetics and genomics and practical application and serves as an invaluable clinical tool for the health professionals and researchers.

    • Nanosensors in Healthcare Diagnostics

      • 1st Edition
      • November 13, 2024
      • Abhinay Sharma + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Nanosensors in Healthcare Diagnostics examines the role of nanosensors in clinical microbiology, point-of-care sensing, clinical diagnostics, and therapy.This book addresses the concept of nanosensors and their utilization in healthcare diagnostics, and therapy. It covers the principles and mechanisms involved in nanosensor-based diagnostics platforms. It also discusses various approaches and techniques used in the preparation of nanosensors as well as the biomedical application of nanosensors in clinical diagnostics and their significance in the detection, treatment, and management of diseases. This book is a useful reference for researchers, graduate students, and industry professionals studying nanosensors in biological and medical sciences.

    • 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.

    • Genomics, Populations, and Society

      • 1st Edition
      • November 12, 2024
      • Dhavendra Kumar + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Genomics, Populations, and Society, a new volume in the Genomic and Precision Medicine in Clinical Practice series, considers the vast and thorny web of ELSI topics in genomics, from bioethics to healthcare applications, healthcare economics, genomic data management, and population dynamics. Emphasis is placed on the impact of rapid genomic advances on ethical, sociocultural and lifestyle dimensions. Healthcare and health economics topics include genomics and digital health, genome editing, and genomics and infectious disease management. Legal issues related to data ownership, equity, access, probity, consent, and confidentiality are also discussed in-depth, along with sociocultural topics such as community engagement, consanguinity, and more.Here, a range of readers from researchers to clinicians, policy administrators, lawyers, economists and social scientists will discover carefully crafted, synthesized discussions on ELSI topics in genomics to power new scientific advances and genomic medicine implementation.

    • 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.

    • Penile Prosthetic Surgery

      • 1st Edition
      • November 9, 2024
      • Andrea Cocci + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Penile Prosthetic Surgery provides comprehensive coverage of penile prosthesis surgery. The book thoroughly describes the different types of penile prosthesis and provides step-by-step surgical procedures in diverse patients. Additionally, access to supplemental videos to accompany the procedures provide enhanced learning through the opportunity to see procedures carried out. Content covers the common tips and tricks for successful surgery and presents possible complications with accompanying solutions. Coverage includes full acknowledgement and examinational of the basic research and underling pathological mechanisms that are present in the erectile dysfunction resistant to medical therapy as well as the counselling that patients may need from both the urological and psychological point of view. The book gives a full comprehension of penile prosthesis surgery from multiple viewpoints making it the perfect reference for urologists, andrologists and psychologists.

    • Transplant Oncology

      • 1st Edition
      • November 8, 2024
      • Maen A. Abdelrahim
      • English
      • Paperback
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      **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Transplantation Surgery**Transplant Oncology: A Frontier in Multidisciplinary Cancer Care summarizes new and evolving scientific findings and discoveries in the field of cancer and transplants and gives guidance on future directions and related research. With a strong focus on transplant oncology, the book examines new and evolving topics, including the utilization of immunotherapy in special patient populations as well as the clinical updates on new concepts in the field such as using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as a tool for minimal disease detection, surveillance, and treatment response evaluation as well as rejection assessment and detection in transplant patient for oncological indications.Sections cover applications of transplant medicine and surgery in oncology to improve patient survival outcome and quality of life. The book gives insight into anticancer strategies, such as initiating studies in genomics and cancer immunogenomics based on new insights in liver cancer.In addition, it describes how the adoption of surgical transplantation techniques in oncology has improved conventional resection and bridged the gap between tumor and transplant immunology. This is a must have reference for all those that want to be familiar and up-to-date with the dynamic changes in the field including practicing physicians, scientists, and trainees.

    • Immuno-oncology and immunotherapy Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 190
      • November 7, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Immuno-Oncology And Immunotherapy – Part B Volume 190, in the Methods in Cell Biology series, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. In this update, chapters include Machine learning methods to assess metastatic burden, Development of pre-clinical models, Tumor microenvironment analysis by multiparametric flow cytometry or/and mass cytometry, Measure of therapy induced cell senescence, and much more.

    • Substance P

      • 1st Edition
      • November 6, 2024
      • Robert Vink
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Substance P: From Pain to Cancer, a volume in the Molecular Mediators in Health and Disease: How Cells Communicate series, provides a complete discussion of substance P biology, its role in normal physiology and a variety of diseases.The volume provides an introduction to substance P and its pharmacology, followed by exploring its role across the human body including cardiovascular function, micturition, learning and memory, emesis, respiration and sleep. It then discusses the critical role of substance P in several disease states including acute brain injury, neurodegeneration, seizures, depression and anxiety, cancer, musculoskeletal disorders, and viral infection, including COVID-19. The book closes with a look towards future perspectives for substance P.Substance P: From Pain to Cancer is an ideal reference for researchers across the life sciences interested in understanding the role of this multi-functioning mediator and its biological significance.

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