Written especially for scientists working in genetic manipulation or biotechnology, this book is a practical introduction to the techniques employed in microbiological laboratories. Emphasizing manipulation rather than instrumentation it includes coverage of:

This new publication has numerous new words which have entered the biological vocabulary and expands on the old ones which have acquired new and more concise meanings. This thorough revision classifies the living world using the "five kingdom" theme. Contains entries for all the main phyla, divisions and classes of plants, fungi, animals, protists and prokaryotes in addition to several orders of insects, birds, mammals and flowering plants.

This book gives practical advice necessary to preserve and maintain cells and microorganisms important to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. This handbook is essential for anyone working with cultures who wants to avoid the frustration of losing strains and needs to be able to devise and evaluate new strategies for preservation.

This book is an introduction to neurobiology, written in an easy-to-read style with extensive two-color illustrations and clear diagrams. Neurobiology takes a comparative approach to the subject, with considerable discussion given to non-human nervous systems. The author has also created an interactive CD-ROM, The Human Brain: 0-387-14666-0 to give readers an interactive complement to the book.

This manual will serve you as a state-of-the-art guidebook for general laboratory research methods that can be used almost universally in protein analysis and experimentation. It presents standardized lab methods in a consistent, step-by-step format that allows even novice researchers to easily perform various procedures. For experienced research workers, the manual offers critical discussions of procedures and key references to the original literature, permitting further investigation and customized refinements of techniques. All protocols are exquisitely detailed and procedures with gels are thoroughly illustrated. This authoritative reference offers outstanding coverage of the development of protein purification processes for large-scale commercial operation and addresses process development, scale-up, applications, and mathematical descriptions.

From the Foreword ... "...ambitious and comprehensive ... The authors ... have produced a ... coherent product with its own 'personality' and one which should fill an important niche. They have worked to fill their book with detailed information and given it a very practical emphasis. Moreover they have provided extensive bibliographies that permit individual readers to delve deeper into topics of their own interest. The text should ... prove highly useful." - E.N. Lightfoot, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Second Edition is increased by more than 300 pages of new methods and includes new material on PCR, DNA-protein interactions, protein expression, in situ hybridation, and immunology. Drawing from both the original manual and its quarterly supplements, this handy, comb-bound compendium includes all step-by-step descriptions of every protocol covered in the first sixteen chapters of CPMB.

The first handbook ever written for the field, the Biomedical Engineering Handbook contains comprehensive information on every aspect of biomedical engineering.

The central theme is to demonstrate how proteins, especially enzymes and immunoglobins can be isolated, characterized, and produced on a large scale.

This Second Edition has over 5000 terms, each one is fully explained and cross-referenced.Included are many contemporary terms in such interrelated disciplines as molecular biology and neurobiology. This respected resource has been greatly extended to include the most sophisticated as well as elementary terms in the field.