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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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    • Microbes at Bio/Nano Interfaces

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 54
      • March 13, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Microbes at Bio/Nano Interfaces, Volume 54 in the Advances in Virus Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of hot topics, including Advanced Hydrogel for Management of Bacterial Wound Infections, Biofilm Characterization: Imaging, analysis and considerations, Parasitic worm interactions with host molecular machinery, Investigation of microbes and surface carbohydrates using Atomic Force Microscopy, Interactions Between Microbial Cells and Titanium Implant Surfaces, Targeting Bacterial Polysaccharides with Antibodies and Vaccines, and much more.Other sections cover Using next generation sequencing to study host-pathogen interactions, Microbial Nano-Biosynthesis: Biomedical, Food and Environmental Applications, and Functional co-expression of LEA peptides: Providing an environment for efficient cellular recombinant protein expression.

    • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • March 13, 2024
      • Joseph JY Sung + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: From Ethical, Social, and Legal Perspectives provides answers on how to improve acceptance and diminish the anxiety of the use of AI-assisted medicine. Through a series of social, ethical, and legal discussions from clinicians, social scientists, ethicists, and legal experts, this important reference has coverage that includes good data custodianship and stewardship, data access, data bias, data & healthcare equity, privacy and confidentiality, algorithmic understanding, and regulatory guidance, accountability, and legal responsibility.This reference will explain to healthcare providers how AI will enhance healthcare, will introduce to scientists and researchers the ethical and social aspect of AI that needs to be addressed, and will urge policymakers and health authorities to consider the legal framework needed to implement AI technology in healthcare.

    • Gallstone Formation, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention

      • 1st Edition
      • March 11, 2024
      • Rajani Sharma + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Gallstone Formation, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention describes the current scenario of gallstones and adopted treatment methods. It is a complete reference for researchers introducing new techniques to help prevent extreme treatments such as a cholecystectomy. This reference provides current knowledge and basic challenges of understanding gallstone formation, with all variations of composition, including complications of the treatment process. This content directs researchers to focus on gallstone mechanisms to design and develop new treatment methods. The book provides all possible factors for gallstone formation as well as preventative measures.

    • Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Biomedicine

      • 1st Edition
      • March 10, 2024
      • Abdulhamit Subasi
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Biomedicine provides ​updated knowledge on the applications of artificial intelligence in medical image analysis. In 16 chapters, it presents artificial applications in Electrocardiogram (ECG), Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Electromyography (EMG), signal analysis, Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR), and Ultrasound image analysis. It equips researchers with tools for early breast cancer detection from mammograms using artificial intelligence (AI), AI models to detect lung cancer using histopathological image, and a deep learning-based approach to get a proper and faster diagnosis of the Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images.In addition, it presents 3D medical image analysis using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Final sections cover an AI-based approach to forecast diabetes patients' hospital re-admissions. This is a valuable resource for clinicians, researchers, and healthcare professionals who are interested in learning more about the applications of Artificial Intelligence and its impact in medical/biomedical image analysis.

    • Retinal and Choroidal Vascular Diseases of the Eye

      • 1st Edition
      • March 9, 2024
      • Jay Chhablani
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Retinal and Choroidal Vascular Diseases of the Eye explores a variety of retinal and choroidal vascular diseases, covering their pathogenesis, clinical features, and management strategies. The book begins with an outline of the basic features of retinal and choroidal vasculature before moving on to imaging techniques. Chapters then delve into specific diseases and abnormalities, as well as vascular diseases that are associated with systemic inflammatory diseases. The book then moves onto considering vascular diseases associated with system conditions before considering vascular tumors. Recent innovations and upcoming treatment options are also explored for the various diseases throughout the book.This comprehensive reference provides a deep dive into vascular diseases of the eye, and is a must-have reference for ophthalmologists, medical and surgical retina specialists, and researchers in related fields.

    • Microbial Biotechnology for Bioenergy

      • 1st Edition
      • March 8, 2024
      • Naga Raju Maddela + 5 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Microbial Biotechnology for Bioenergy presents emerging biotechnological and microbiological approaches in bioenergy and their economic, social, and environmental implications.Section 1 of this book includes an overview of bioenergy, global statistics and projections for future bioenergy development, the role of biotechnology and bioprocesses in bioenergy, feedstock sources, challenges, decarbonisation, and emerging innovations and technologies. Section 2 examines biotechnology and microbiology for bioenergy, including chapters on bioconversion of biomass energy and biological residues, utilizing organic waste, the biotechnology of biofuels including bioethanol, biodiesel, and biohydrogen, the sustainability of cellulosic ethanol energy and artificial photosynthesis, Power-to-X and integrating energy storage innovation, and microbial fuel cell sustainability. Finally, Section 3 explores policy and environmental aspects, providing a global perspective and impact projections based on present-day global statistics.Combining fundamentals and cutting-edge data, Microbial Biotechnology for Bioenergy is a valuable reference for biotechnologists, environmental engineers, and microbiologists working in bioenergy.Also included are ideas for new product development and possible improvement of existing products, as are insights into the unique nature of graphene and its types, including morphology and thickness, mechanical properties, electrical conductivity, elastic properties of 2D and 3D structures, and more.

    • Translational Bioinformatics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 139
      • March 6, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Translational Bioinformatics is an emerging field in the direction of biomedical research. High throughput technologies can be applied to the generated biological data to develop the vaccine and personalized medicine. This volume consists of the chapters from different stalwart of the field covering the topics such as drug development, vector engineering, vaccine development and translational genomics. Chapters covered in this volume discuss the translational research related with cancer, Alzheimer disease and cardiovascular diseases. This volume includes the chapter describing the importance of computational resources and chemoinformatics for the translational health research. How Omics studies are helping to translate the laboratory data into the development of tools which are beneficial in the clinics have been described. How translational bioinformatics helpful in plant genomics to improve the crops have also been included in this volume. This volume has a chapter which describes the secrets of resistance development and further how these resistance are associated with human infectious diseases. This volume will be useful to the early career researcher in the development of research idea and develop their methodologies in the direction of bioinformatics and it will also give the insight to translate their findings.

    • RNA Therapeutics Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 204
      • March 6, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      RNA Therapeutics, Part B, Volume 204 updates on a new class of medication based on RNA molecules, with chapters on a variety of topics, including RNA therapeutics for cardiovascular disorders, RNA therapeutics for kidney injury, RNA therapeutics for beta-thalassemia, RNA therapeutics for infectious diseases, RNA therapeutics for reproductive diseases, Potential of RNA and transcriptomic data to drive drug repurposing for various diseases, RNA therapeutics for glioma/glioblastoma, RNA therapeutics for regenerative medicine, Advances in the liposome-based delivery systems for RNA therapeutics in cancer, Advances in the polymeric nanoparticulate delivery systems for RNA therapeutics in cancer, and more.

    • Cell-based Cancer Immunotherapy

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 183
      • March 5, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Cell-based Cancer Immunotherapy, Volume 183 provides the latest progress concerning research on anticancer cellular immunotherapies and their immunological, translation, or clinical aspects. Topics covered in this volume include Methods behind clinical DC vaccine products against glioblastoma, Fully closed and automated isolation of natural blood dendritic cells for cancer immunotherapy, Methods behind Oncolytic virus-based DC vaccines in cancer: towards a multiphase combined treatment strategy for Glioblastoma (GBM) patients, Identification of TCR repertoire patterns linked with anti-cancer immunotherapy, Training of epitope-TCR prediction models with healthy donor-derived cancer-specific T cells, Methods behind neoantigen predictions for anticancer vaccines, Methods behind CD137L-DC-EBV-VAX anticancer vaccine, and much more. Additional sections cover Gold Standard Assessment of Immunogenic Cell Death Induced by Photodynamic Therapy: From In Vitro to Tumor Mouse Models and Anti-Cancer Vaccination Strategies, Methods behind TCR analyses for colorectal cancer-associated TILs, The use of xCELLigence, Incucyte, and/or Cr/LDH/maker-release assays, Humanized mouse models for anti-cancer therapy, In vitro re-challenge of CAR T cells, Methods behind adoptively transferred tumor draining lymphocytes​ for anticancer immunotherapy, and A murine glioblastoma platform to test cellular therapies with the standard of care.

    • Engineering Biology for Microbial Biosynthesis of Plant-Derived Bioactive Compounds

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2024
      • Yongjun Wei + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Engineering Biology for Microbial Biosynthesis of Plant-Derived Bioactive Compounds will be of great interest to undergraduate and graduate students, scientists, researchers, and engineers who work on the microbial production of plant-derived bioactive compounds. As many plant-derived bioactive compounds are the foundation of effective drugs to cure diseases, it's important to understand the limits of their applications in drugs and other industries. With the development of synthetic biology and green biomanufacturing, the biosynthesis of complex bioactive compounds is possible. However, the engineering fundamentals for microbial biosynthetic of plant-derived bioactive compounds is vast.This book summarizes the engineering fundamental biotechnologies for microbial production of plant-derived bioactive compounds, allowing the content to be easily accessed. Coverage includes summaries of key achievements, identification of challenges, current approaches, tips and tricks, and helpful insights into critical bottlenecks.

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