Human biochemistry

Organ Tissue Engineering

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The notion of being able to engineer complete organs has inspired an entire generation of researchers. While recent years have brought significant progress in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, the immense challenges encountered when trying to engineer an entire organ…

Neuro Fuzzy Hybrid Models for Classification in Medical Diagnosis

by Melin, Patricia, Guzmán, Juan Carlos, Prado-Arechiga, German

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This book is focused on the use of intelligent techniques, such as fuzzy logic, neural networks and bio-inspired algorithms, and their application in medical diagnosis. The main idea is that the proposed method may be able to adapt to medical diagnosis problems in different poss…

Biomaterials and medical tribology: research and development

by Davim, J. Paulo

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Medical tribology can be defined as the science of tribological phenomena in the human body, both those that naturally occur in the tissues or organs and those that arise after implantation of an artificial device, while biomaterials are inert substances designed to be incorpora…

Cancer Genomics: Molecular Classification, Prognosis and Response …

by Pfeffer, Ulrich

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The combination of molecular biology, engineering and bioinformatics has revolutionized our understanding of cancer revealing a tight correlation of the molecular characteristics of the primary tumor in terms of gene expression, structural alterations of the genome, epigenetics …

Chronobiology and Obesity

by Garaulet, Marta, Ordovás, José M.

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Circadian rhythms are such an innate part of our lives that we rarely pause to speculate why they even exist. Perhaps this is the reason why in the medical practice the circadian variability of hormones, metabolites, physiological behaviors or the relevance of time in the presen…

Biomaterials for artificial organs

by Webster, Thomas J., Lysaght, Michael

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The worldwide demand for organ transplants far exceeds available donor organs. Consequently some patients die whilst waiting for a transplant. Synthetic alternatives are therefore imperative to improve the quality of, and in some cases, save people's lives. Advances in biomateri…

Injectable biomaterials: science and applications

by Vernon, Brent

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Provides comprehensive coverage of injectable biomaterials. This title discusses materials and mechanical properties of this important technology. It also covers clinical applications such as drug delivery. It analyses technologies and developments. Novel injectable materials fo…

Tryptophan Metabolism: Implications for Biological Processes, Health and Disease

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This book discusses the relationship between cellular immunity and tryptophan metabolism, as well as its products, serotonin and melatonin, in the development of several diseases and reappraises the common signal transduction pathways of the neurodegenerative diseases, carcinoge…

Synthetic Biology: From iGEM to the Artificial Cell

by Peretó, Juli, Porcar, Manuel

fromSpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Synthetic Biology (SB) is a revolutionary discipline with a vast range of practical applications, but is SB research really based on engineering principles? Does it contributing to the artificial synthesis of life or does it utilise approaches sufficiently advanced to fall outsi…

The Mathematics of Medical Imaging: A Beginner's Guide

by Feeman, Timothy G.

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The basic mathematics of computerized tomography, the CT scan, are aptly presented for an audience of undergraduates in mathematics and engineering. Assuming no prior background in advanced mathematical analysis, topics such as the Fourier transform, sampling, and discrete appro…

Mean Field Theories and Dual Variation - Mathematical Structures of the Mesoscopic Model

by Suzuki, Takashi

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Mean field approximation has been adopted to describe macroscopic phenomena from microscopic overviews. It is still in progress; fluid mechanics, gauge theory, plasma physics, quantum chemistry, mathematical oncology, non-equilibirum thermodynamics. spite of such a wide range of…

Biobetters: Protein Engineering to Approach the Curative

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Over the last few decades, biopharmaceuticals have transformed many areas of healthcare and have given hope and extended the lives of many patients. Curative treatments, however, remain elusive in most cases. This book describes strategies to develop improved versions of biophar…

Circulating microRNAs in Disease Diagnostics and their Potential Biological Relevance

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MicroRNAs as the endogenous mediators of RNA interference have experienced an unprecedented career in recent years, highlighting their pathogenic, diagnostic and potential therapeutic relevance. Beside tissue microRNAs, they are also found in body fluids, most notably in blood. …