Arturas Petronis Jonathan Mill Editors 2011 Biomedical research in the first decade of the twenty-first century has been marked by a rapidly growing interest in epigenetics. The reasons for this are numerous, but primarily it stems from the mounting realization that research programs focused solely on DNA sequence variation, despite their breadth and depth, are unlikely to address all […]
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Kevin M. Sweet • Ron C. Michaelis 2011 We wrote this book for several reasons. First, we truly believe that we have entered the age of genetics, genomics and personalized medicine, and despite the difficulties that have been encountered in the early stages of the field’s development, these revolutionary advances will ultimately improve health care in all fields […]
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Antoine Suarez, Joachim Huarte Editors 2011 Is this cell entity a human being? The answer to this question is crucial for making bioethical decisions either for or against research and experimentation. In 1993, I proposed the developmental potential for spontaneous movements as a basis for determining whether a cell entity is a human being.
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Michiel Korthals 2011 This volume addresses the overlapping aspects of the fields of genomics, obesity and (food) ethics. It is unique in its examination of the implications of genomics for obesity from an ethical perspective.
Continue reading →Rosalie E. Ferner • Susan M. Huson D. Gareth R. Evans 2011 Over the last 20 years there has been a rapid increase in our understanding of the disease mechanisms underlying neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) and neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2), and related disorders.
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Sophie Rousseaux l Saadi Khochbin Editors 2011 I am pleased and honored to have been invited to write the introduction to this volume depicting the state of the art of “Epigenetics and Human Reproduction”.
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Husseini K. Manji l Carlos A. Zarate Editors 2011 Bipolar disorder (BPD) is a common, chronic, recurrent mental illness that affects the lives and functioning of millions of individuals worldwide, and is a major public health problem. Recent estimates suggest that BPD affects 1–2% of the general population (Goodwin and Jamison 2007).
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C. Neal Ellis Editor 2011 Current Clinical Management
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Aldo R. Boccaccini • Sian E. Harding Editors 2011 Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death in the industrialised world [1] and now have risen to a similar position for developing countries. Myocardial infarction is the main cause of death in patients with CVD, although damage to heart muscle can also occur from infection, drugs, alcohol, […]
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Norbert Pallua • Christoph V. Suschek Editors 2011 From Lab to Clinic Although efforts to generate bioartificial tissues and organs for human therapies date back to the 80s, these efforts have only come closer to reality in the past 10 years. The possibility of such bioartifical tissues has been fueled by major advances in cell and molecular biology […]
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