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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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    • Animal Models of Disease Part A

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 185
      • March 29, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Animal Models of Disease, Part A, Volume 185 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including New mouse model to study aneurysm development, Mouse Model of Secondary Cystic Echinococcosis, Modelling childhood cancer in Drosophila, Analysis of immunohistomorpholog... changes in the colonic mucosa in a high-saturated fat and high-cholesterol fed streptozotocin/nicot... diabetic rat model, Establishment of an orthotopic Glioblastoma mouse model for preclinical studies, Lateral Fluid Percussion Injury as a Model for Traumatic Brain Injury, Ovarian and colorectal peritoneal carcinomatosis in mouse models, and more.Other chapters cover Genetically engineered mouse model of hepatocellular carcinoma, Radiotherapy protocol in cancer mouse models, Using C. elegans as a model for neurodegenerative diseases: Methodology and evaluation, Methodology for the induction of myocardial infarction and cardiac function evaluation, Behavioral assessment of fine socio-sexual olfactory cues detection in a mouse model of neurodegeneration, Heat shock and thermotolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans: an overview of laboratory techniques, and Using the model cestode Taenia crassiceps for the study of cysticercosis.

    • A Multidisciplinary Approach to Managing Swallowing Dysfunction in Older People

      • 1st Edition
      • March 29, 2024
      • Pere Clave´ + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      A Multidisciplinary Approach to Managing Swallowing Dysfunction in Older People provides comprehensive coverage on oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD), focusing on older patient phenotypes. The book provides the knowledge needed for translational researchers and professionals to aid in the detection, diagnosis, treatment and management of OD, ultimately improving patient quality of life. OD has been recently considered a geriatric syndrome because of its high prevalence, the increase of life-expectancy and the need to be managed by a multidisciplinary approach. This reference takes a novel approach to OD, covering all aspects as a geriatric syndrome, examining a complicated and multi-level topic in a succinct way. Contents include the most innovative information available in current literature combined with practical applications to improve the diagnosis and treatments of OD as a geriatric syndrome. This is the perfect reference for translational researchers, physicians and healthcare professionals dealing with OD.

    • Microbial Diversity in the Genomic Era

      • 2nd Edition
      • March 23, 2024
      • Surajit Das + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Microbial Diversity in the Genomic Era: Functional Diversity and Community Analysis, Second Edition presents techniques used for microbial taxonomy and phylogeny, along with their applications and respective strengths and challenges. The book incorporates recently developed biosystematics methods and approaches to assess microbial taxonomy, with suitable recommendations for where to apply them across the range of bacterial identification and infectious disease research. Sections provide a broad overview of microbial genomics research and microbiome directed medicine and update on molecular tools for microbial diversity research, extremophilic microbial diversity, functional microbial diversity across application areas, microbial diversity and infectious disease research, and future directions. Step-by-step methodologies are provided for key techniques, along with applied case studies that break down recent research studies into practical components, thus illuminating pathways for new studies across the field.

    • 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.

    • Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria

      • 1st Edition
      • March 22, 2024
      • Keizo Shimada + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria is a comprehensive overview of phototrophic bacteriacovering the following: overview of photosynthesis and phototrophic bacteria; systematicsand characteristics of each taxon; ecology and cultivation; photosynthetic electrontransfer systems; metabolism; pigments and lipids; light-harvesting systems and reactioncenters; photosynthetic genes and regulation of gene expression; origin and evolution ofphotosynthesis; and the utilization of phototrophic bacteria.Chapters are written by some of Japan’s leading researchers in the area, providing researchersin photosynthesis, bacterial physiology, microbial ecology, artificial photosynthesis,bioph... biochemistry, industrial chemistry a highly detailed, up-to-date and thoroughlycross-refe... book in this interdisciplinary area. With very few books being published overthe last 25 years on the topic, this book especially fills a crucial need for young researchersand those working at the margins of interdisciplinary fields.

    • Advances in Clinical Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 119
      • March 21, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Clinical Chemistry, Volume 119, the latest installment in this internationally acclaimed series, contains chapters authored by world-renowned clinical laboratory scientists, physicians and research scientists. Topics covered in this new release include Advances in Endotoxin Analysis, SARS-CoV-2 detection and surveillance, Osteopontin in Cancer, Gastrointestinal Hormones: History, Biology, and Measurement, Natriuretic Peptide Testing Strategies in Heart Failure: a 2023 Update, and Defining Allowable Total Error Limits in the Clinical Laboratory.

    • Functionalized Nanomaterials for Cancer Research

      • 1st Edition
      • March 21, 2024
      • Hamed Barabadi + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Functionalized Nanomaterials for Cancer Research: Applications in Treatments, Tools and Devices presents an in-depth and step-by-step description of knowledge on functionalized nanomaterials for cancer research, including treatment and future developments as well as their impact on patients’ overall outcomes. The book discusses functionalized nanoplatforms for cancer detection and imaging, interactions between nanomaterials and cancer cells, and drug resistant malignancies. The book's chapters are organized in a manner that can be readily adopted as sources for new and further studies by highlighting the main in vitro and in vivo nano-therapeutic achievements on cancer. Additionally, current trends on functionalized nanomaterials for cancer research and commercial scale opportunities are discussed. This is a valuable resource for researchers, oncologists, students, and members of the biomedical and medical fields who want to learn more about the potential of nanotechnology in cancer research and treatment.

    • G4 biology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 695
      • March 21, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      G4 Biology, Volume 695 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights high value topics such as Assays to measure G4 resolution by DNA helicases, In gel staining methods of G4 DNA and RNA structures, Methods to probe the folding pathways of four-stranded intercalated cytosine-rich motifs at single base-pair resolution, Analyzing the effect of transcription coupled R-loop formation on G4 formation, Integrated Structural Biology for the study of higher-order G4 structures, Advancing the Study of Protein-G4 Interactions in DNA Repair: Insights from Biolayer Interferometry and Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy, Immunofluorescence microscopy (IF) of G-quadruplex and R-loops, and more.Additional chapters delve into Production of the anti-G-quadruplex antibody BG4 for efficient ChIP-seq and CUT&Tag analysis: from plasmid quality control to validation, Utility of intercalator displacement assays for screening of ligands for i-motif DNA structures, Potentiometric titrations to study ligand interactions with DNA i-motifs, Towards Profiling of the G-Quadruplex Targeting Drugs in the Living Human Cells Using NMR Spectroscopy, and Identification of bona fide G4-binding proteins, Observing Pif1 opening dsDNA and G4 in real time by manipulation under magnetic tweezers, and in vivo detection of DNA secondary structures using Permanganate/S1 Footprinting with direct adapter ligation and sequencing (PDAL-Seq).

    • Open Electronic Data Capture Tools for Medical and Biomedical Research and Medical Allied Professionals

      • 1st Edition
      • March 21, 2024
      • Ashish Pundhir + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Open Electronic Data Capture Tools for Medical and Biomedical Research and Medical Allied Professionals explains the step-by-step of collecting and treating research data in a didactic manner. The book discusses four freely available data capture tools whose common feature is data collection and entry being done simultaneously rather than separately, thus saving resources and minimizing potential errors. It highlights the comparative features of each data capture tool, helping readers to understand the advantage and disadvantage of each one to decide which tool can be used to fulfill their needs.This is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and members of the biomedical and medical fields who need to learn more about data mining and management to improve the quality of their research work.

    • Chronic Complications of Diabetes Mellitus

      • 1st Edition
      • March 21, 2024
      • Didac Mauricio + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Chronic Complications of Diabetes Mellitus: Current Outlook and Novel Pathophysiological Insights provides a holistic view of the disease, discussing not only its classical complications but also the under recognized and managed conditions associated with diabetes. Chapters also discuss advances in our understanding of the genomic architecture of diabetes complications and how precision medicine can be used to personalize their management. Endocrinologists, diabetologists, primary care physicians and researchers interested in complications of diabetes mellitus and cutting-edge information will find this to be a comprehensive tome on the topic. Diabetes complications include pathological changes usually related to the vascular system and classical target organs. However, there are also nonclassical complications independent or partially independent from vascular damage that are often overlooked.

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