Iñigo de Miguel Beriain Carlos María Romeo Casabona Editors 2014 A Challenge to the Current IP Framework? Synthetic biology is a relatively new field of scientific endeavour, emerging over the past 10 years. Rather than seeking to understand living organisms, researchers in synthetic biology aim to design and build entirely new living systems at the molecular, cellular, tissue […]

Indumathi Somasundaram Editor 2014 Stem cells possess a wonder-working potential to understand important aspects of human biology involving tissue repair and regeneration. Stem cells have recently become the most fascinating area of research as they can treat and cure diseases and ultimately save lives. They have the potential to treat not just one but many diseases.

Michel Fleck • Aram M. Petrosyan 2014 Crystallization, Structure and Properties On asking somebody what they are made of, the reply frequently heard is ‘mostly water’. Although this statement is definitely correct, it is only the boring background material, so to say, on a par with the answer ‘air’ when asked what you have in your home. The […]

Anthony P. Nicholas • Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya Editors 2014 Deimination refers to the posttranslational conversion of protein-bound arginine into protein-bound citrulline. It is often interchangeably termed as “citrullination,” which may also refer to the conversion of free arginine into citrulline. As a result, we have promoted the use of the word “deimination” to exclusively refer to the posttranslational modifi […]

Ke-li Han • Xin Zhang • Ming-jun Yang Editors 2014 Proteins exert a variety of fascinating functions to participate in virtually all cellular processes. Underlying these highly controlled activities are the ordered conformational changes, which lead to molecular events that drive efficient and precise regulation and control of these processes. Although it has been widely acknowledged that the conformational […]

Kenneth Palmer • Yuri Gleba Editors 2014 Plant virologists are fond of reminding their non-plant virologist colleagues of the myriad of contributions that Tobacco mosaic virus has played in the development of modern molecular biology. Our friends and colleagues who organized the 1998 Symposium celebrating 100 years of TMV research Tobacco mosaic virus, sponsored by the Royal Society of […]

Brian R. Moyer • Narayan P.S. Cheruvu Tom C.-C. Hu Editors 2014 Fundamentals and Applications Imaging sciences applied to medicine could be regarded as starting when the first histologic section was viewed or when Roentgen accidently took a picture of his hand by interfering with photons hitting a photographic plate. In the 1990s applications of PCR in gene […]

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Rakesh Kumar Editor 2014 Regulatory nuclear pathways feeding into the transcription of cancer-relevant molecules have emerged as the next frontier in pathway-centered cancer therapeutics. The significance of nuclear signaling in cancer is also evident by the convergence of a large number of signal transduction pathways continuously sensing extracellular milieu.