Books in Life sciences

Advancing Brain Cancer Care

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Zodwa Dlamini
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Advancing Brain Cancer Care: Precision, AI Innovation and African Insights explores the complex challenges in brain tumour management by integrating precision medicine, artificial intelligence (AI), and innovative technologies within the African context. Each chapter addresses key aspects of brain tumour care, from diagnostic dilemmas to therapeutic innovations, while emphasizing AI's transformative potential. The content progresses from foundational concepts to advanced topics, including neurosurgical interventions, radiation therapy, and emerging technologies like nanomedicine. By incorporating literature reviews, case studies, and expert perspectives, the book offers a comprehensive view of current practices and future advancements. It serves as an essential resource for healthcare professionals, researchers, and students, consolidating the latest advancements in the field. Additionally, it fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, stimulates research, and provides insights tailored to both global and local challenges in neuro-oncology, ultimately aiming to improve patient outcomes in brain tumour care.

Epigenetics Methods

2nd Edition
August 31, 2025
Trygve O. Tollefsbol
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Epigenetics Methods, Second Edition offers an extensive overview of the tools that enhance translational epigenetics studies. This edition includes updated and revised chapters, along with newly added topics such as MALDI-TOF-MS for analyzing DNA methylation and the RIP assay for lncRNA binding. Specialists provide step-by-step guidance on methods used to study various epigenetic mechanisms. The book covers both fundamental and advanced techniques, making it an essential resource for researchers in this dynamic field. In addition to DNA methylation and histone modification techniques, the book also explores chromatin evaluation, enzyme analyses, and non-coding RNAs as epigenetic modulators.New chapters discuss recent advancements like single-cell epigenomics, epigenetic editing, and computational epigenetics. The volume addresses reproducibility issues and offers consensus-driven methods to unify approaches across experiments and labs. This edition is a vital reference for understanding and employing cutting-edge epigenetics methods.

Less-Supervised Segmentation with CNNs

1st Edition
August 29, 2025
Jose Dolz + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Less-Supervised Segmentation with CNNs: Scenarios, Models and Optimization reviews recent progress in deep learning for image segmentation under scenarios with limited supervision, with a focus on medical imaging. The book presents main approaches and state-of-the-art models and includes a broad array of applications in medical image segmentation, including healthcare, oncology, cardiology and neuroimaging. A key objective is to make this mathematical subject accessible to a broad engineering and computing audience by using a large number of intuitive graphical illustrations. The emphasis is on giving conceptual understanding of the methods to foster easier learning.This book is highly suitable for researchers and graduate students in computer vision, machine learning and medical imaging.

Sports Physician Handbook

4th Edition
August 21, 2025
Yannis P. Pitsiladis + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Sports Physician Handbook, the fourth edition of Team Physician Manual: International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), covers all key area of activity and intervention, from the preparticipation examination to rehabilitation, drug testing, young athlete, female athlete and even environmental issues. The book also surveys the most significant classifications of sports injury, offering clear advice on fieldside assessment, diagnosis and treatment, as well as examining best practice in general aspects of sports medicine, such as prevention and the psychology of injury. Sports Physician Handbook continues the high caliber of authorship from a team of world-leading physicians and scientists from around the world. In short, the fourth edition represents a ‘must have’ reference for any doctor, scientists, physical therapist, or medical professional working in sport.

Edible Oil Blends

1st Edition
August 15, 2025
Mohamed Fawzy Ramadan
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Edible Oil Blends: Chemistry, Functionality and Health Aspects, gives readers insight into the advantages of blending traditional and non-traditional oils for optimal nutrition and enhanced product development. The book sheds light on how the intricate concoctions of triacylglycerol, phospholipids, carotenoids, antioxidants and fatty acids can improve nutrition and contemporary food applications.Edible Oil Blends: Chemistry, Functionality and Health Aspects, demonstrates how blended oils stemming from olive, coconut, sunflower, soybean, sesame, grapeseed and more, can alter an oil's' chemical composition for increased cooking stability, enhanced sensory characteristics and more desirable ratios of saturated, mono-and poly-unsaturated and essential fatty acids. Each chapter highlights a specific oil and discusses the bioactive compounds, physiochemical properties, biological properties and the economic value of each.

Clinical Diseases, Production, and Management of Cattle

1st Edition
August 15, 2025
Tanmoy Rana
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Clinical Diseases, Production, and Management of Cattle is an essential reference that extensively covers the health, care, and management of cattle. This comprehensive guide begins with general considerations of cattle care and production, progresses into specific practices for calf care, and culminates in a broad examination of cattle diseases—from common to rare, mild to severe. The book includes preventative measures, diagnostic procedures, and treatments for diseases. It is an invaluable resource for industry professionals, animal agriculture researchers, and veterinarians looking to deepen their understanding of cattle health and disease prevention.

Keys to Afrotropical Fauna

1st Edition
August 10, 2025
James H. Thorp + 1 more
English
eBook
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Keys to Afrotropical Fauna provides the gold standard for books on aquatic invertebrates of Africa. It is the primary source for applied and basic studies of inland water invertebrates of Africa, whether the user is focused on human health (disease vectors), aquaculture, or general ecology and systematics. This text can be used by scientists from many countries and continents who are studying aquatic fauna in Africa, as well as by teachers and students in academia and employees in government agencies in many African countries.Each book of the series is developed to be the most modern and consistent set of taxonomic keys on the region. The design of the series provides a highly comprehensive, current set of keys in one place for each of these bioregions, with all keys written in a consistent style. This book is essential for anyone working in water quality management, conservation, ecology or related fields in these regions.

Harnessing Genomic Tools for Crop Improvement

1st Edition
August 10, 2025
Lakshmi Narayana R. Vemireddy + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of crop genetics, the book, Harnessing Genomic Tools for Crop Improvement is an essential resource designed for researchers, students, and professionals seeking to leverage bioinformatics tools for precision breeding. This comprehensive manual provides step-by-step guidance on utilizing molecular data derived from genetics and breeding experiments, offering hands-on instructions for key software applications in genetic diversity analysis, QTL mapping, genome-wide association mapping, haplotype analysis and genomic selection.Beyond technical tutorials, the book explores cutting-edge bioinformatics tools such as sequence databases, BLAST, primer designing, and sequence alignment, ensuring users gain a holistic understanding of genomics-driven crop improvement. Definitions, terminology clarifications, and interpretation of the results help bridge the gap between theory and application, simplifying complex analyses.Whether you are a novice or an experienced researcher, this book equips you with the skills to analyze and apply genomic data effectively, making it an invaluable asset for transforming geneticists into genomicists in both plant and animal sciences.

Targeted Protein Degradation Technologies

1st Edition
August 6, 2025
Jiangjiang Qin + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Targeted Protein Degradation Technologies provides a thorough overview of targeted protein degradation from the latest developments in the field to potential therapeutic applications. The book begins with an introduction to the mechanisms of protein degradation followed by a section covering both protease-mediate degradation and lysosome-mediate degradation. A range of cutting-edge technologies are covered, including PROTAC, AbTAC, molecular glues, hydrophobic tagging, LYTAC, GlueTAC and AUTAC. Degraders of specific proteins are then investigated, including signal transduction receptors, membrane proteins, and transcription factor degraders.The book closes with a section on the clinical applications of targeted protein degradation and a look at future perspectives. It is a useful resource to those in the fields of molecular biology, cell biology, and related areas working with protein degradation and the development of therapeutic technologies in this arena.

Role of Sex and Gender in Aging and Longevity

1st Edition
August 6, 2025
Calogero Caruso
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Role of Sex and Gender in Aging and Longevity aims to shed light on the complex interplay between sex and gender differences in the aging process and longevity of individuals. While biological sex differences have long been recognized as influencing various aspects of aging, this book includes how gender also plays a significant role in shaping these processes, accelerating aging, or favoring longevity. By acknowledging the influence of both biological and socially constructed factors, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of why individuals may experience different aging trajectories and have divergent longevity outcomes.This book explores the intricate ways in which gender norms, roles, and expectations shape individual experiences of aging and delves into the social determinants of health that can interact with biological factors to influence the aging process and longevity outcomes. By examining these interactions, the book aims to provide a nuanced understanding of the multifaceted nature of aging and longevity and how sex and gender contribute to these complex phenomena.

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