Andreas Krause ● Michael O’Connell Editors 2012 Graphics in Life Sciences

Margareta M. Mueller • Norbert E. Fusenig Editors 2011

Md. Shahidul Islam Editor 2011 During a conference titled “TRP channels, from sensory signaling to human disease”, held at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, on 26th and 27th September, 2009, I was contacted by Springer to publish the proceedings of the conference. After some discussion with some of the speakers, I understood that that was not going to happen. […]

Edward D. Zanders 2011 Demystifying the Jargon Jargon, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, can either mean unintelligible words, or gibberish, barbarous or debased language, or else a mode of speech only familiar to a group or profession. Anyone trying to approach the drug discovery industry from the outside might have some sympathy with all of these definitions, particularly […]

Pier Luigi Luisi ● Pasquale Stano Editors 2011 The Biophysics of Cell Compartment and the Origin of Cell Functionality The main reason behind this book was the necessity to give a proper account to the considerable interest that arose in the last ten years on the notion of minimal cell. This is broadly defined as the cell […]

Lyubomir Vassilev, David Fry Editors 2011 Cell integrity and functions depend on a myriad of protein–protein interactions. Many of these interactions are involved in disease etiology and represent desirable targets for pharmacological intervention. However, the notion of modulating protein–protein binding with small molecules has historically raised serious concerns.

Gordon S. Lynch Editor 2011 Mechanisms and Treatments

Daisuke Kihara Editor 2011 Elucidation of protein function has been a central question in molecular biology, genetics, and biochemistry. The importance of computational function prediction is increasing because more and more genome sequences are being determined by genome sequencing projects.

Cord Brakebusch · Taina Pihlajaniemi Editors 2011 From Animals to Cells The importance of mice as model organism has continuously increased throughout the last decades due to the widespread use of genetically modified mice. These mice significantly increased our understanding of the function of specific genes in a living mammalian organism during development and in disease.