Published December, 2011
By Jacqueline Boultwood and Carrie Fidler
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine
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Over the past 20 years, technological advances in molecular biology have proven invaluable to the understanding of the pathogenesis of human cancer. The aim of Molecular Ana- sis of Cancer is to provide a comprehensive collection of the most up-to-date techniques for the detection of molecular changes in human cancer.

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Published December, 2011
By Brian J. Nickoloff
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine
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The first draft of the human genome sequence was announced in June 2000, and we have just scratched the surface of the changes it will engender in medicine. A relevant question is what are the long-term effects of the Human Genome Project for medicine? First, the Human Genome Project introduced a new type of s- ence-discovery science.

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Published December, 2011
By Trygve O. Tollefsbol and Lucy Andrews
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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This volume presents a compendium of the most recent and advanced methods applied to the rapidly expanding field of telomerase inhibition. The techniques described provide the researcher with a diverse and comprehensive set of tools for the study of telomerase inhibition.

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Published December, 2011
By Boris Draznin and Derek LeRoith
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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These comprehensive yet concise collections of articles by world experts survey the latest findings on the molecular biology of diabetes and insulin action and synthesize a coherent understanding of the subject.

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Published December, 2011
By Donna H. Wang
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine
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Published December, 2011
By Keith R. Mitchelson and Jing Cheng
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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The development of PCR, which enables extremely small amounts of DNA to be amplified, led to the rapid development of a multiplicity of a- lytical procedures to utilize this new resource for analysis of genetic variation and for the detection of disease causing mutations.

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Published December, 2011
By John B. Cliff, Helen W. Kreuzer, Christopher J. Ehrhardt and David S. Wunschel
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Infectious Disease
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In the best case, genetic analysis in the 'biocrime' sector can exclude sources, narrow the population of possible sources and support associations with potential sources.

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Published December, 2011
By J.M. Parry, Elizabeth M. Parry and James M. Parry
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Evaluating potential mutagenic activity is a critical step in assessing the safety of both new and pre-existing chemical types. In this book, expert contributors help to satisfy the demand for education in this vitally important field of research.

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Published December, 2011
By Jian-Bing Fan
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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The rapid pace of microRNA (miRNA) research continues to drive the advances of techniques for miRNA expression profiling, and innovative technologies that are more sensitive, specific, quantitative, and that are compatible with a wide range of biospecimens have been developed during the past few years.

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Published December, 2011
By Francisco Rivero
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Divided into five convenient sections, Rho GTPase: Methods and Protocols provides an historical overview of the field and an account of the phylogenetics of the Rho family, general biochemical methods, and functional assays that allow monitoring the consequences of manipulating Rho GTPases in a variety of contexts.

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