Editors: Verster, J., Pandi-Perumal, S.R., Ramaekers, J.G., de Gier, J.J. (Eds.) 2009 The volume Drugs, Driving & Traffic Safety covers the impact of various diseases and their treatment on driving ability. Traffic safety is an issue that is becoming increasingly relevant.In 2004, the World Health Organization dedicated the World Health Day to road safety to draw attention to the yearly increasing number of traffic deaths.

Michael E. Maragoudakis • Nikos E. Tsopanoglou Editors 2009 Physiology and Disease The elucidation of the coagulation cascade has been one of the major accomplishments of biomedical sciences in recent years. The central role of thrombin, the plethora of factors and the multiple control mechanisms involved in haemostasis have been well characterized. However, new insights in the structure, […]

Craig D. Shimasaki 2009 What Goes into Making a Biotechnology Product My journey into this fascinating field of biotechnology started about 26 years ago at a small biotechnology company in South San Francisco called Genentech. I was very fortunate to work for the company that begat the biotech industry during its formative years. This experience established a solid […]

Kewal K. Jain 2009 Personalized medicine, which simply means selection of treatment best suited for an individual, involves integration and translation of several new technologies in clinical care of patients. The scope is much broader than indicated by the term genomic medicine, because many non-genomic factors are taken into consideration in developing personalized medicine. Basic technologies for personalized medicine, of […]

Keiko Hiyama Editor 2009 Telomerase, an enzyme that elongates telomeres and endows eukaryotic cells with immortality, was first discovered in Tetrahymena in 1985 and studied among basic scientists in the 1980s. In the 1990s, it was proven that this enzyme also plays a key role in the development of human cancers and many clinical researchers became involved in this […]

Joseph Lustgarten • Yan Cui • Shulin Li Editors 2009 Stimulation of the immune system’s ability to control and destroy tumors continues to be the goal of cancer immune therapy; but the scope has rapidly expanded; approaches are constantly updated; new molecules are continually introduced; and immune mechanisms are becoming better understood. This book has no intention of covering […]

Edited by REBECCA G. BAGLEY BEVERLY A. TEICHER 2009 The recent surge in stem cell research has ignited a field of discovery into many human diseases including diabetes, neuropathologies, and cancer. Stem cell therapy is a promising approach to the treatment of many debilitating diseases to replace specific differentiated cells that have been lost or died. Although stem […]