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Thermodynamics and Kinetics for the Biological Sciences |
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From Book News, Inc. Biochemistry editor-in-chief Hammes (biochemistry, Duke U.) reveals to first-year graduate students of bio-organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, and other biological disciplines, the physical chemistry tools they need to investigate molecular phenomena, but would otherwise not acquire without diverting their studies through several years of advanced mathematics. He also explains the statistical development of entropy.B... >> |
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Electrokinetics in Microfluidics |
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Book Description A lab-on-a-chip device is a microscale laboratory on a credit-card sized glass or plastic chip with a network of microchannels, electrodes, sensors and electronic circuits.
These labs on a chip can duplicate the specialized functions as performed by their room-sized counterparts, such as clinical diagnoses, PCR and electrophoretic separation. The advantages of these labs on a chip include significant reduction in the amounts of samples and reagents, very short... >> |
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Book Description With the astounding advances in biotechnology, superhuman powers that were once the stuff of legend or comic strip fantasy now seem within our reach. Science fiction is fast becoming science fact, and many believe that the cyborg, an organism enhanced by mechanical, electronic, or chemical means, will produce the next leap forward in human evolution. Ever since Daedalus strapped on wings, human beings have invented countless ways of overcoming their bodily limit... >> |
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Biotechnology
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