Published May, 2011
By Stephen W. Ragsdale and Amy Rosenzweig
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Produced by microbes on a large scale, methane is an important alternative fuel as well as a potent greenhouse gas. This title focuses on microbial methane metabolism, which is central to the global carbon cycle. It includes topics such as isolation and classification of microorganisms, metagenomics approaches, and more.

---

Published May, 2011
By Timothy R. Hughes
Publisher: Springer
Series: Subcellular Biochemistry
Rating:
Availability: Available

Written from a genome-based perspective, this volume provides an objective overview of transcription factor biochemistry. Topics include known transcription factor classes, origins and evolution of transcription factor types, and mechanisms of interaction with chromatin.

---

Published May, 2011
By Ingemar Pongratz, Paul Pechan, Ortwin Renn and Allan Watt
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Rating:
Availability: Available

This book discusses risk and the food supply. It details all aspects of risk and how it applies to food, from risk classification to risk management, and examines such issues as the political context of risk discussion and moral dimensions of decision making.

---

Published May, 2011
By Vitomir Sunjic, Michael J. Parnham and Michael Parnham
Publisher: Springer (Springer Basel)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Highlighting 15 selected chiral structures, which represent candidate or marketed drugs, and their chemical syntheses, the authors acquaint the reader with the fascinating achievements of synthetic and medicinal chemistry. The book starts with an introduction treating the discovery and development of a new drug entity.

---

Published May, 2011
By Stephen W. Ragsdale and Amy Rosenzweig
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Produced by microbes on a large scale, methane is an important alternative fuel as well as a potent greenhouse gas. This title focuses on microbial methane metabolism, which is central to the global carbon cycle. It covers such topics as isolation and classification of microorganisms, metagenomics approaches, and field measurements.

---

Published May, 2011
By Meital Zilberman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials
Rating:
Availability: Available

Active implants are actually drug or protein-eluting implants that induce healing effects, in addition to their regular task, such as support. The drug-eluting implants will be described in terms of matrix formats and polymers, incorporated drugs and their release profiles from the implants, as well as implant functioning.

---

Published April, 2011
By Robert Jean Ferry and Robert J. Ferry, Jr.
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Nutrition and Health
Rating:
Availability: Available

Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes provides healthcare trainees and professionals with practical, comprehensive, and contemporary approaches to the pediatric patient at risk for obesity, T2DM, and related conditions.

---

Published April, 2011
By Alistair J. Lax
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

Bacterial toxins are potent molecular poisons that are released by bacteria to cause disease. This 2005 book describes how toxins can enter cells to subvert cell function by interfering with the key processes involved in cell growth and division, and the ability of cells to differentiate into specialised cells.

---

Published April, 2011
By Nestor V. Torres and Eberhard O. Voit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Rating:
Availability: Available

This book, first published in 2002, introduces methods of optimizing biochemical systems of biotechnological relevance. It examines the development of strategies for manipulating metabolic pathways and discusses the design and analysis of systems models. All concepts are derived from first principles and the well-illustrated text is accompanied by two detailed case studies.

---

Published April, 2011
By Robert Ebermann and Ibrahim Elmadfa
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Auch die 2., uberarbeitete Auflage wird der Lebensmittelchemie als einem multidisziplinaren Fach gerecht: Die Inhalte wurden um Kapitel zu funktionellen sowie angereicherten Lebensmitteln erganzt und die Palette der besprochenen Lebensmittel erweitert.

---