Biotechnology impinges on everyone's lives. It is one of the major technologies of the twenty-first century with wide-ranging, multidisciplinary activities ranging from small entities of life to the application, and production of goods. Environmental biotechnology is a huge and fast growing field with increasing relevance for a sustainable development through protection of environment to produc…
Translational Biotechnology: A Journey from Laboratory to Clinics presents an integrative and multidisciplinary approach to biotechnology to help readers bridge the gaps between fundamental and functional research. The book provides state-of-the-art and integrative views of translational biotechnology by covering topics from basic concepts to novel methodologies. Topics discussed include biotec…
This book focuses on composition, properties, characterization, and theoretical approach of chitin and chitosan bio-composites. It describes the most recent studies concerning chitin and chitosan-based films and gives an overview about future trends regarding the industrial applications of chitin and chitosan for food packaging purposes
Microalgae are an invaluable biomass source with potential uses that could lead to environmental and economic benefits for society. Biotechnological Applications of Microalgae: Biodiesel and Value Added Products presents the latest developments and recent research trends with a focus on potential biotechnologically related uses of microalgae. It gives an analysis of microalgal biology, ecology,…
The ethnic diversity throughout Indonesian populations, provide a unique opportunity to investigate how they are they related or distinguished concerning one genetic structure to another. In this study, the 7 Indonesian genetic data (Balinese, Batak, Bugis, Javanese, Malay, Nias, and Sundanese) were derived from blood samples that were taken after getting the ethical clearance and the inform co…
Richly illustrated in color, Statistics and Data Analysis for Microarrays Using R and Bioconductor, Second Edition provides a clear and rigorous description of powerful analysis techniques and algorithms for mining and interpreting biological information. Omitting tedious details, heavy formalisms, and cryptic notations, the text takes a hands-on, example-based approach that teaches students th…
This book provides an overview of the technologies that can be applied for processing biomass into fuels. These include classical methods such as digestion and fermentation as well as new technologies specifically designed for biomass fuels.
Biohydrogen Production: Fundamentals and Technology Advances covers the fundamentals of biohydrogen production technology, including microbiology, biochemistry, feedstock requirements, and molecular biology of the biological hydrogen production processes. It also gives insight into scale-up problems and limitations. In addition, the book discusses mathematical modeling of the various processes …
The 2014 International Conference on Biotechnology, Agriculture, Environment and Energy (ICBAEE 2014) was held May 22-23, 2014 in Beijing, China. The objective of ICBAEE 2014 was to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academics as well as industry professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Biotechnology, Agriculture, Environm…
The future is now—this groundbreaking textbook illustrates how biotechnology has radically changed the way we think about health care Biotechnology is delivering not only new products to diagnose, prevent, and treat human disease but entirely new approaches to a wide range of difficult biomedical challenges. Because of advances in biotechnology, hundreds of new therapeutic agents, diagnost…
Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of biotechnology, this book covers the role of targeted delivery of polymeric nanodrugs to cancer cells, microbial detoxifying enzymes in bioremediation and bacterial plasmids in antimicrobial resistance. It addresses modern trends such as pharmacogenomics, evaluation of gene expression, recombinant proteins from methylotrophic yeast, identification of no…
ß-carotene is one of the major carotenoids in industries, which is mainly synthetically manufactured. Due to its extensive use in human consumption, natural origin of ß-carotene is in high demand. Neurospora intermedia, is a filamentous fungus that has the potential to produce ß-carotene, it is normally associated for its ability to grow on many kinds of substrate. With regards to the global…
The CRISPR/Cas9 has been used to target Virescens gene for fruit color development during the ripening process in oil palm. When ripped, Virescens fruits turn into bright red-orange from green. The development of Virescens fruits is important to help the harvesters determine fruit’s maturity and ripening. The Virescens gene has more than one sgRNA and each of them has different cleavage effic…