This book shows how molecular biology reduces life to programs (genes) directing machinery (proteins). This approach is crucial to solving medical and agricultural problems for the future of humanity and will appeal to anyone wanting to understand “what is life?”.
This book provides knowledge on fatal diseases caused by viruses and the herbal treatments used for them. As viruses challenge mankind, recently seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book focuses on herbs with anti-viral effects and their mechanisms of action for researchers.
Anatomy and Evolution of the Giraffe
Explore the legendary fossil beds of Samos, where ancient myths explained the bones of giant mammals. This book uncovers the island’s paleontological history, compares the anatomy of the giraffe, okapi, and extinct Samotherium, and maps the geology of these famed bone quarries.
Animal Space Use, Second Edition
Animal space use is complex. Memory and multi-scaled space use present deep challenges for biophysical modelling. This book confronts these issues, presenting novel models, a critical evaluation of existing concepts, and theoretical proposals to resolve present challenges.
Journey into the fascinating world of nanoparticles, microscopic wonders making giant strides in medicine, electronics, and environmental science. This book delves into how these tiny yet powerful particles behave differently, unlocking a future of endless possibilities.
This book studies arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), a plant biostimulant key for future sustainable agriculture. AMF form symbiotic relations with plants, enhancing nutrient intake, boosting immunity against stress, and improving crop productivity.
This book, by the world’s best experts, covers the emerging field of membrane atg8ylation. Atg8ylation is to membranes what ubiquitylation is to proteins: a homeostatic process that guards and remodels them. Its downstream functions in health and disease remain to be defined.
Basic Biology for Born Engineers
While the laws of physics rely on calculus, this approach fails for biology. Living things are not continuous; they are discrete and amazingly exact. This book presents a novel view of biology as the science of ‘living mosaics’, made of discrete, yet interacting, ‘tiles’.
This guide introduces medical parasitology, covering human parasites, their epidemiology, control, and animal vectors. It features exercises, case histories, tables, a glossary, and semi-diagrammatic identification keys for students, researchers, and physicians.
Basics of Animal Communication
This short, systematic introduction to animal communication blends natural sciences and humanities in a multidisciplinary approach. A useful pedagogical tool for students and teachers, it is written in a clear, engaging style with a glossary and rich bibliography.
Belonging to Earth
Global health threats reveal the deep interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. This book’s fictional, evidence-based stories, rooted in true events, provide invaluable insights that will change the way we understand our place in the global ecosystem.
Beyond Sustainable Materials
Global experts explore cutting-edge advancements in nanofabrication and biopolymers for sustainable innovation. This book covers energy and biomedical applications, showing how materials science can address global challenges and align with sustainability goals.
This book studies the thermodynamic bases of protein structure and function. Moving from physical chemistry principles to current topics in biochemistry, it details protein stability, ligand interactions, and allostery in a language that is rigorous yet easy to read.
This book provides a new, interdisciplinary model of consciousness, offering a multidisciplinary bridge between the brain, mind, philosophy, self-consciousness, human identity, and free will.
Biologists in the Age of Totalitarianism
These gripping biographies reveal the hidden lives of biologists in the Third Reich. Dr. Nowak, who knew many personally, uses newly opened archives to tell the stories of victims and perpetrators caught in the ideological nets of Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism.
This casebook addresses the intersection of business strategy with biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. It highlights recent trends and opportunities in the life sciences, featuring advancements in fields like AI and showcasing novel applications of strategic management theory.
This book addresses the limits of cancer diagnosis with new imaging and non-imaging methods. It unveils radio tomosynthesis for breast and brain anomalies and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) for a range of cancers, all augmented by machine learning algorithms.
Blindsight, Traumatic Brain Injuries, and the Brain
Advances in neuroscience are revolutionizing society. This book provides insight into the wonders of sensory experience, traumatic brain injuries, and diseases like Alzheimer’s, exploring the field from individual cells to the majestic organ now contemplating itself.
Contemporary biology focuses on genes and molecules, overlooking the living organisms themselves. This book redresses this imbalance by providing a new theory of what organisms are, and then putting it to work by recounting the story of evolution on Earth.
Butterfly Wings
Butterfly wing patterns evolved to protect against predators. But predators see a different world, reacting to colours and cues invisible to us. Their wings mimic dangerous animals—snakes, spiders, hawk eyes—to trigger alarm. Updated with new evidence and examples of mimicry.