Your body has trillions of cells, and each one has the complexity and dynamism of a city. Your life, your thoughts, your diseases, and your health are all the function of cells ...

Green fluorescent proteins have been floating in the ocean for more than 160 million years, but it took a curious scientist, fascinated by pinpricks of green light, to begin ...

What do giant squids, mantis shrimp, and fireflies have in common? These animals, along with a wide range of creatures, are able to give off light; this is called ...

Biomaterials and scaffolds play an essential role in guiding tissue growth in vivo and matrix production in vitro. Many approaches have been developed to determine the ...

This book gives an introduction to biotransformations, the practice of harnessing biological catalysts for the preparation of useful chemicals.

This book addresses the ethical problems in maternal-fetal medicine which impact directly on clinical practice.

Little more than a decade ago, in the early 1980s, the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those ...

An authoritative yet easy-to-read description of molecular biology, genetics, and the ethical implications of genetic engineering.