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LIFE SCIENCES 2022 AVA I L A B L E I N P R I N T A N D D I G I TA L M O R E D I G I TA L P R O D U C T S O N W O R L D S C I N E T
Highlights Life Sciences Catalogue 2022 page 4 page 4 page 4 page 6 by Don Kulasiri (Lincoln edited by Thomas Ming Swi edited by Kurt Wüthrich by Zheng Rong Yang University, New Zealand) Chang (McGill University, (ETH Zürich, Switzerland (University of Exeter, UK) & Jingyi Liang Canada & Shenzhen & The Scripps Research (UiT The Arctic University of University, China & Shantou Institute, USA) Norway, Norway) University, China), et. al. page 7 page 7 page 9 page 11 by Mark I M Noble by Benoit Roux edited by Stephen S Hecht by Dianliang Wang (University of Aberdeen, UK) (The University of (University of Minnesota, (China Association for Science Chicago, USA) Twin Cities, USA) & Dorothy and Technology, China) & K Hatsukami (University of Haijia Chen (Guangzhou Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA) Saliai Stem Cell Science and Technology Co., Ltd., China) page 11 page 14 page 14 page 15 by Charles DeLisi by Dunne Fong edited by Adrien A Eshraghi by Thomas R Platt (Boston University, USA) (Rutgers, The State (University of Miami, USA) (Saint Mary’s College, University of New Jersey, Notre Dame, USA) USA) & Marion M Chan (Temple University, USA)
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Life Sciences Catalogue 2022 BIOCHEMISTRY ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE WATER AND LIFE Biology, Biophysics and Computational Life in Water and Water in Life Models by Arieh Ben-Naim (The Hebrew University by Don Kulasiri (Lincoln University, of Jerusalem, Israel), Zvi Kirson (The Hebrew New Zealand) & Jingyi Liang (UiT University of Jerusalem, Israel) & The Arctic University of Norway, Norway) Jose Angel Sordo (University of Oveido, Spain) Alzheimer’s Disease: Biology, Biophysics and Computational Models help the reader This book is unique in presenting all aspects to understand AD from mechanistic and of water. It includes discussion of the theory biochemical perspectives at intra- and inter- of a water molecule, its properties, both in cellular levels. It focuses on biochemical the pure state and as a solvent. In particular, pathways and modeling associated with AD. Some of the recent research it emphasizes the relevance of water to life. on biophysics and computational models related to AD are explained using Water is the most important liquid. It is also a vital component of all living context-driven computational and mathematical modeling and essential systems. It has very unusual properties which makes it the most interesting biology is discussed to understand the modeling research. for research and study. 480pp Aug 2021 284pp Mar 2021 978-1-80061-011-8 US$158 £140 978-981-122-550-5 US$88 £75 Regenerative Medicine, Artificial Cells and Nanomedicine – Volume 6 UNTANGLING NANOBIOTHERAPEUTIC MOLECULAR DIVERSITY Explaining Unity and Diversity Principles BASED BLOOD of Organization with Molecular Structure SUBSTITUES and Evolutionary Genomics edited by Thomas Ming Swi Chang (McGill edited by Gustavo Caetano-Anolles University, Canada & Shenzhen University, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, China & Shantou University, China), et. al. USA) This definitive volume will provide the reader Untangling Molecular Biodiversity presents a with up to date information and the most recent unique global framework to explain molecular science of the fast-evolving area of nanobiotherapeutic-based blood and organismal biodiversity that is grounded in substitutes. Long studied, there are recent updates that make their use in evolutionary genomics. This book will tackle important questions such as patients more promising, and with one product approved for human use, the origin of life, the emergence of biochemistry, the origin of viruses, the many more in the pipeline. These include 2nd generations and even third nature of the last universal common ancestor responsible for diversified generation ones, the later with enhancement of red blood cell functions. In life, the role of information and thermodynamics in evolution, the reason for addition, there are carefully written and referenced updates on the recent having three cellular domains in life, and the centrality of modules in biology. history and products in the field, complete with pathophysiologic and 672pp Nov 2020 pharmacologic studies to validate and verify the efficacy and safety of many 978-981-4656-61-0 US$188 £165 of these new products. 650pp Aug 2021 978-981-122-868-1 US$178 £155 Series in Structural Biology – Volume 12 STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS INTO GENE EXPRESSION NMR WITH BIOLOGICAL AND PROTEIN SYNTHESIS MACROMOLECULES IN by Thomas A Steitz (Yale University, USA) 4 SOLUTION Thomas Steitz is best known for the work he and A Selection of Papers Published from his coworkers did to elucidate the biochemical 1996 to 2020 by Kurt Wüthrich basis of gene expression. The structures of a edited by Kurt Wüthrich (ETH Zürich, Switzerland & The Scripps Research large number of the macromolecules involved in Institute, USA) transcription and translation emerged from his laboratory over the course of his career. This book includes reprints of the The book provides insights into the research of most important papers he had published, grouped according to the structures the Kurt Wüthrich laboratories from 1996–2020. they relate to, and commentaries written by the scientists who collaborated During this time period, the technique of with him to solve each of them. It thus summarizes the achievements of one nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in solution went through of the most distinguished biochemists of the second half of the 20th century. several breakthroughs, while maturing into a standard method of structural biology. With the introduction of TROSY (transverse relaxation-optimized 640pp Aug 2020 spectroscopy), the range of accessible molecular sizes was extended about 978-981-121-585-8 US$198 £175 thirty-fold, and efficient protein structure determination resulted from the demands of the structural genomics initiative. 264pp Jul 2021 978-981-123-578-8 US$128 £115 978-981-123-913-7(pbk) US$58 £50
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The scientific explorations covered a broad spectrum ideal aid for students of physics or chemistry, with interests in biology and of fields: theoretical physics; molecular biology, biophysics, the book can also be useful for students of biology, biochemistry, from finding messenger RNA to elucidating the regulation of the lac operon or biomedicine who want to extend their knowledge of how protein properties to understanding DNA replication; gene evolution and origin of life; genomics; are described at the molecular level. bioinformatics; and beyond. He created widely used concepts such as “Exon”, “Intron” and “RNA World”. 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For more information, visit: www.worldscientific.com WORLD SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTION BIOLOGY CORRUPT CULTURES “Fake News” and Cheating in Science by Roy Y Calne (University of Cambridge, UK) HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS This book is concerned with cheating in Science The Evolution of Our Sensor of Society and the harm that it does, concentrating on by Irving C Statler (NASA Ames Research Centre, USA) three disasters in cell culture, which caused The book provides a consistent rationale for the evolutionary progression international concern and personal tragedy from the simple, primitive, isolated organism to the complex, intelligent, for the perpetrators. There is an overview of and social primates. A coherent explanation of why and how human plant, animal and human cheating, providing consciousness evolved from elaboration of primary consciousness is a background to the focus on Science. This given. 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Here is a true intellectual no other word for it.” describing incidents within his life that Gordon Chancellor many of us lesser mortals can immediately Editor of Darwin’s Beagle appreciate. Life’s path is rarely smooth and Notebooks from the Voyage of whether dealing with mundane teachers or the Beagle individuals of the highest intellect one can both learn and be humbled by the experience. ... I would recommend this to anyone looking for This is the ultimate guide to the life and work of Charles Darwin. The result of decades of research through a vast and daunting literature which is inspiration in their career choice and wondering when or if they should hard for beginners and experts alike to navigate, it brings together widely change direction.” scattered facts including very many unknown to even the most ardent Sir Richard J Roberts, PhD FRS Darwin aficionados. 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For more information, visit: www.worldscientific.com WORLD SCIENTIFIC MEMORY MAKES THE ANDROCENTRISM BRAIN The Ascendancy of Man by Charles Pasternack (Oxford The Biological Machinery that Uses International Biomedical Centre, UK) Experiences to Shape Individual Brains by Christian Hansel (The University of Since time immemorial, men have assumed Chicago, USA) superior innate qualities which have justified The development of the young brain after birth them in exerting power over the other sex right and the emergence of cognitive capacities, up to the twentieth century. The last few years mind, and individuality rest on the maturation have seen the emergence of a new literary of a dense net of synaptic connections between genre: to show that despite this, women have neurons. Memory Makes the Brain describes managed to become outstanding writers, artists, the dramatic, competitive elimination of surplus synapses that occur in scientists, explorers, rulers and politicians. 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University, New York, USA) Given the significance of the field, the proposed book will be a compilation This is a handbook that shows the reader how of the bench experience of experts from various research labs involved in to construct an intellectual pedigree. It is also the cutting edge area of stem cell research. a history of science monograph because the completed intellectual pedigrees can be used 280pp Mar 2020 individually or collectively to trace the influences of mentoring in the life 978-981-120-552-1 US$98 £85 sciences. The author uses Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967) (which includes his own intellectual pedigree) to show how knowledge was shifted from Italy to Germany and England, to France, and then to the American Colonies. Through Muller, the author goes in two directions, one leading to eTextbooks Available! Huxley, Darwin, and Newton. The second leads to Agassiz, Malpighi, Borelli, and Galileo. 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