Discusses plant transformation techniques, the generation of transgenic plants, and the engineering of plant viruses to produce vaccine proteins or peptides. This title addresses the basis of mucosal immunity using plant-based oral vaccines, organelle targeting for vaccine production, and the role of glycosylation in plant-made mammalian proteins.

Offers background knowledge on the molecular biology of plants and a comprehensive description of plant biotechnology. This book deals with an overview of Plant Molecular Biology. It presents the concepts of both plant molecular biology and plant biotechnology.

A stimulating and exciting look at how we got to the present state of health care and where we can potentially go. A unique perspective and a great read. David Lester, Ph.D., President, ITHW Inc.; formerly Director, Human Health Technologies, Pfizer Inc. The explosion of new knowledge in the biosciences will raise important challenges for our social, ethical, and economic thinking. The ...

Microelectronic engineering has revolutionized electronics. This work describes the methods by which microengineered devices can be built to perform a number of applications and considers how the field may progress by examining complex lab on a chip devices which have potential in the advancement of the way in which molecular biology is performed.

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Sustainable Biotechnology; Sources of Renewable Energy draws on the vast body of knowledge about renewable resources for biofuel research, with the aim to bridge the technology gap and focus on critical aspects of lignocellulosic biomolecules and the respective mechanisms regulating their bioconversion to liquid fuels and other value-added products . This book is a collection of outstanding ...

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Provides a comprehensive overview of the principles of chiral separation by capillary electrophoresis and the different chiral selectors available. This book reviews pharmaceutical and biomedical applications and explores novel techniques, such as capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry and microchip technology.

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Biotechnology has emerged as an area of activity having tremendous impact on virtually all domains of human welfare and holds a lot of promises and surprises in some of the techniques for the present and future. This book gives an overview of biotechnological means to convert hazardous wastes into useful products, and then moves to proteomics.

Suitable for biochemists, biotechnologists, molecular and cellular biologists.

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Intelligent materials are emerging composite materials that have boomed since the 1990s. This book gives a complementary introduction about biomimic intelligent micro/nanoscale interfacial materials, devoting largely to the intelligent materials with special wettabilities.

Biosorption is an effective technology for the removal of organic and metallic elements. Compared with conventional technologies for trace contaminant removal, biosorption has advantages of high efficiency and low cost due to the economic biosorbent. This book offers basic knowledge of biosorption in terms of its fundamentals and main application.

An introduction to process control and management, aimed at the general process engineer. It covers basic regulatory control, advanced process control and process management. The book includes several appendices covering mathematical modelling, process optimization and simulation.

Discusses the utilization of enzymatic and microbial biocatalysts for transformation of biomass to liquid or gaseous fuels, explores metabolic pathway engineering, discusses characterization of new hydrolytic enzymes and presents new microorganisms and fermentation techniques.

Education planners in Accra regarded decentralisation as an important strategy for raising the quality and status of Ghanian education. The Ministry of Education (MOE) was depending on the local content curriculum (LCC) to achieve many things. This title indicates that the MOE has not yet commenced to rebuild the culture of education.