Product Description: Written by the successful author team of Sandy Primrose and Richard Twyman, Genomics: Applications in Human Biology is a topical book showing how the new science of genomics is adding impetus to the advances in human health provided by biotechnology...read more

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Product Description: In spite of the wide variety and complexity of biological materials, nucleic acids are ubiquitous. DNA is becoming the bioanalyte of choice due to the vast amount of information embedded in its sequence, its robust chemical nature and the range of highly sensitive analytical techniques that have been developed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Genome analysis and genomics are at the forefront of current research in the life sciences. Since the first edition of Principles of Genome Analysis was published, the sequencing of genomes has continued apace, with the major landmark of the human genome sequence being achieved in 2001...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As in past editions, the basic philosophy of this extremely popular text is to present the principles and techniques of gene manipulation in sufficient detail to enable the non-specialist to understand them. However, in the three years since the previous edition, molecular biology has seen a dramatic increase in available techniques and applications...read more

Product Description: Biotechnology is one of the "buzz" words of the decade. At its simplest simple, it is the commercial exploitation of living organisms or their components - such as enzymes - and thus it covers the discipline formerly known as industrial microbiology...read more