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Pocket Guide to Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering by Rolf D. Schmid (2003, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-103527308954

ISBN-139783527308958

eBay Product ID (ePID)2436994

Product Key Features

Number of Pages360 Pages

Publication NamePocket Guide to Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

LanguageEnglish

SubjectBiotechnology, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics

Publication Year2003

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaScience, Medical

AuthorRolf D. Schmid

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.9 Oz

Item Length7.4 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews"...you should have it close at hand on your desktop as you read new articles. I would recommend this reference book...not only to clinical chemists, pathalogists, and medical technologists, but to anyone in medicine who wants to know how all the new therapeutic agents are made and appriciates the impact of biotechnology an medicine and society." Clinical Chemistry "...this book is a useful, interesting and colourful guide to modern biotechnology and genetic engineering. It will achieve its objective of providing students with an overview of the field presented in manageable portions and a clear and accessible manner, but it will also be a source of information, a useful reference and an interesting read for any researcher who is working across the traditional boundaries of chemistry, biology or biochemistry." ChemBioChem "This pocket guide can be recommended unreservedly for all students and researchers in natural and engineering sciences and medicine, but is also useful to readers with a general interest in biotechnology and genetic engineering. I can certainly agree with the final sentence of the book cover: A perfect introduction to the field - for professionals and students." Angewandte Chemie IE Erwähnung in: Process "...provides a broad coverage of the relevant facts on products, methods and applications in biotechnology and genetic engineering...Instructive yet attractive color illustrations and a didactic approach throughout the book..." Process worldwide "Beginners and experts will like this wonderfully composed book." Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation "In the wilderness of biotechnology, Schmid's "Pocket Guide to Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering" is a welcome addition that with all likelihood will find many friends. During the review process it has definitely found one! The book is excellently produced. The figures are as sharp as tacks and as informative as the text...The overall verdict is: useful and recommendable to students and biotechnologists alike." Engineering in Life Sciences, "Beginners and experts will like this wonderfully composed book." ( Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation , September 2004)

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal660.6

Table Of ContentINTRODUCTION Early developments Biotechnology today BIOTECHNOLOGY OF FOOD Alkoholic beverages Beer Fermentierted food Food and lactic acid fermentation ALCOHOLS, ACIDS AND AMINO ACIDS Ethanol 1-Butanol, acetone Acetic acid Citric acid Lactic acid and gluconic acid Amino acids L-Glutamic acid D,L-Methionine, L-lysine, L-threonine L-Phenylalanine and L-aspartic acid, Apartame? Amino acids by enzymatic transformation ANTIBIOTICS Antibiotics: abundance, applications and mechanisms of action Antibiotics: production and resistance Lactam antibiotics: structure, biosynthesis and mechanism of action Lactam antibiotics: production Amino acid and peptide antibiotics Glycopeptide, polyether and nucleoside antibiotics Amino glycoside antibiotics Chinones, chinolones and aromatic antibiotics Polyketide antibiotics New strategies for antibiotics SPECIALTIES Vitamins Nukleosides and nucleotides Biotensides and biocosmetics Polysaccharides (dextran, xanthan) Biomaterials Biotransformation Steroid-biotransformations ENZYMES Enzymes Enzyme catalysis Enzymes for analytics Enzyme analytics Enzymes in technical applications Detergent enzymes Enzymes für starch degradation Enzymatic starch hydrolysis Enzymes and sweetenting Cellulasens and hemicellulases Enzymes for pulp and paper production Pectinases Enzymes for milk treatment Enzymes for treatment of bakery goods and meet Enzymes for leather treatment New startegies for technical enzymes BAKERS'' YEAST AND FODDER YEASTS Bakers'' yeast and fodder yeasts Proteins and oil from singel cell organisms BIOTECHNOLOGYIEUAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Aerobic wastewater treatment Anaerobic wastewater and slugde treatment Biological off-gas purification Biological soil remediation Microbial ore leaching and biocorrosion THERAPEUTIC AND DIAGNOSTIC BIOTECHNOLOGY Insulin Somatotropin and ohter hormones Hemoglobin, serum albumin, lactoferrin Clotting factors Anticoagulants and thrombolytics Enzyme inhibitors The immune system Stem cells Interferons Interleukins Erythropoietin and growth factors TNF and other pharma proteins Vaccines, recombinant vaccines Antibodies monoclonal antibodies recombinant antibodies Immune analytics Biosensors AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY Animal breeding Embryo transfer, cloned animals Gen mapping Transgenic animals Gene farming Plant breeding Plant cell cultures: surface cultures Plant cell cultures: suspension cultures Transgenic plants: methods Transgenic plants: resistance Transgenic plants as bioreactors MICROBIOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS Viruses Bakteriophags Microorganisms Bacteria Bacteria: charakterization Fungi Yeasts Microorganisms: isolation, stem maintenance, safety Stem maintenance of microorganisms FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING Culture growth kinetics and product formation fed-batch and continuous fermentations Fermentation technique Fermentation technique: upscaling Cultivation of animal cells Cultivation of animal cells: technical concepts Enzyme and cell reactors Downstream processing of bioproducts Downstream processing of bioproducts: chromatography Industrial processes MOLECULAR GENETIC METHODS DNA: structure DNA: Function Gene technology: general working steps Preparation of DNA, restriction enzymes Enzymes fortreatment of DNA PCR - general method and applications PCR DNA: synthesis and size determination - application examples DNA: sequencing Introduction of DNA in living cells (transformation) Cloning and identificationof genes Gene expression Silencing of genes Protein design Gen banks and gene mapping Genomes of prokaryotes Genomes of eukaryotes Human genome Functional analysis of the human genome DNA analytics DNA arrays Reporter groups Gene therapy CURRENT TRENDS Compund screening Proteomics Bioinformatics Metabolism Metabolic engineering SAFETY, ETHICS, ECONOMY Safety in gene technology Approval of bio- and gene technicologiocal products Ethics and acceptance Patents and biotechnology International comparison

SynopsisBiotechnologie und Gentechnik geh ren zu den Schl 1/4sseltechnologien des 21. Jahrhunderts. Sie erlauben uns Schritt f 1/4r Schritt, wissenschaftlich-technische Erkenntisse von Zellbiologie und Genetik, von Biochemie und Mikrobiologie, von Bioverfahrenstechnik und Bioinformatik auf die Gesundheitsvorsorge und die Heilung von Krankheiten, die landwirtschaftliche Produktion und die Herstellung von Nahrungsmitteln, den Technologiewandel bei der Herstellung von Chemie-Produkten und auf den Umweltschutz anzuwenden. Wie viele Technologien sind sie aber auch nicht davor sicher, mi Ybraucht zu werden. Davor kann eine sachliche und breite Information 1/4ber Chancen und Risiken am besten sch 1/4tzen. Dieser Taschenatlas wendet sich deshalb nicht nur an Studenten der Natur- und Ingenieurswissenschaften und der Medizin, sondern auch an alle, die einen oeberblick 1/4ber die Produkte, die Methoden, die aktuellen Anwendungen und die ethischen, wirtschaftlichen und sicherheitstechnischen Rahmenbedingungen der Bio- und Gentechnologie suchen., Biotechnology and genetic engineering are the key technologies of the 21st century. They allow the findings in cell biology and genetics, biochemistry and microbiology, biochemical engineering and bioinformatics to be applied to health care, agriculture, food production, environmental protection and alternative production methods for chemicals., Biotechnology and genetic engineering are the key technologies of the 21st century. They allow the findings in cell biology and genetics, biochemistry and microbiology, biochemical engineering and bioinformatics to be applied to health care, agriculture, food production, environmental protection and alternative production methods for chemicals. This handy book provides broad coverage of the relevant facts on products, methods and applications. It discusses the opportunities and risks involved in these new technologies, combined with ethical, economic and safety considerations. Instructive and attractive color illustrations as well as an excellent didactic approach throughout make this a perfect introduction to the field -- for professionals and students alike.

Illustrated byHammelehle, Ruth

LC Classification NumberTP248.13