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For fans of The Song of the Cellーa profusely, creatively illustrated journey through the origins and evolution of the building blocks of life, from an award-winning biologist and illustrator In the……続きを見る

Essential self-teaching guide on molecular biology and genetics. From the foundations of a living cell to the complex mechanisms of gene expression, Essential Biology Self-Teaching Guides are a comp……続きを見る

Essential self-teaching guide on eukaryotic cell and cellular metabolism. The Essential Biology Self-Teaching Guide series is a comprehensive compendium to learn and master multifaceted biology topi……続きを見る

This textbook is an introduction to Systems and Theoretical/Computational Neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on cognition. It consists of three parts: Part I covers fundamental concepts and ma……続きを見る

Alan Herbert has played a leading part in discovering the biological roles for a high-energy form of DNA twisted to the left rather than to the right. Both Z-DNA and the Z-RNA sensing proteins are c……続きを見る

This open-access textbook is an excellent introduction to systems biology, which has developed rapidly in recent years. It discusses the processes in living organisms in an integrated way, enabling ……続きを見る

The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate history. This book doc……続きを見る

This open access book is the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Biomineralization (BIOMIN XIV) held in 2017 at Tsukuba. Over the past 45 years, biomineralization research has unveile……続きを見る

This open access book deals with a rich variety of taxis-type cross-diffusive equations. Particularly, it intends to show the key role played by quasi-energy inequality in the derivation of some nec……続きを見る

This book focuses on the amphibian, Xenopus, one of the most commonly used model animals in the biological sciences. Over the past 50 years, the use of Xenopus has made possible many fundamental con……続きを見る

This open access textbook leads the reader from basic concepts of chromatin structure and function and RNA mechanisms to the understanding of epigenetics, imprinting, regeneration and reprogramming.……続きを見る

There are some truly innovative therapeutic techniques in the works that can transform the future of medicine, and one of them is anti-VEGF. This anti-angiogenic therapy can cure a variety of cancer……続きを見る

This book is devoted to innovative medicine, comprising the proceedings of the Uehara Memorial Foundation Symposium 2014. It remains extremely rare for the findings of basic research to be developed……続きを見る

Phenotypic plasticity – the ability of an individual organism to alter its features in direct response to a change in its environment – is ubiquitous. Understanding how and why this phenomenon exist……続きを見る

This Open Access textbook provides students and researchers in the life sciences with essential practical information on how to quantitatively analyze data images. It refrains from focusing on theor……続きを見る

The importance of molecular approaches for comparative biology and the rapid development of new molecular tools is unprecedented. The extraordinary molecular progress belies the need for understandi……続きを見る

This open access book describes marked advances in imaging technology that have enabled the visualization of phenomena in ways formerly believed to be completely impossible. These technologies have ……続きを見る

This book contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants, where many plant and animal reproductive biologists gathered to disc……続きを見る

Protein are truly wonderful biological molecules that construct nearly every cellular component of every cell of every living organism that exists on Planet Earth. They are the ultimate products of ……続きを見る

In "Section Cutting and Staining," Walter S. Colman presents a meticulous examination of the techniques and principles involved in histological preparation. This comprehensive guide delves into both……続きを見る

This is a comprehensive guide to single-stranded RNA phages (family Leviviridae), first discovered in 1961. These phages played a unique role in early studies of molecular biology, the genetic code,……続きを見る

This textbook describes the biology of different adult stem cell types and outlines the current level of knowledge in the field. It clearly explains the basics of hematopoietic, mesenchymal and cord……続きを見る

Dyneins are molecular motors that are involved in various cellular processes, such as cilia and flagella motility, vesicular transport, and mitosis. Since the first edition of this book was publishe……続きを見る

An indispensable guide to buffers and to understanding the principles behind their use. Helps the user to avoid common errors in preparing buffers and their solutions. A must for researchers in the ……続きを見る

The subject of this book is the "cell." Most people would say that this topic belongs to the realm of biology or chemistry, reasoning that any treatise about the cell could only be a biology or a ch……続きを見る

In the 19th century, when the theory of evolution was put forward, the level of science and technology was rather primitive. This led the theory's supporters to maintain that living organisms had a ……続きを見る

A graduate-level one-volume textbook and reference work on the structure and physics of atomic nuclei. Throughout this book the underlying emphasis is on how a nucleus is constituted through the int……続きを見る

Stem cell research is one of the fascinating areas of contemporary biology, but, as with many expanding fields of scientific inquiry, research on stem cells raises scientific questions as rapidly as……続きを見る

Principles of Neurobiology,Second Edition presents the major concepts of neuroscience with an emphasis on how we know what we know. The text is organized around a series of key experiments to illust……続きを見る

Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitatio……続きを見る