Product Description: This book applies modern molecular diagnostic techniques to the analysis of single cells, small numbers of cells, or cell extracts. Emphasis is placed on non-invasive analysis of single cell metabolites and the direct analysis of RNA and DNA from single cells, with a focus on polymerase chain reaction and fluorescence in situ hybridization...read more

Financial sectors in low-income sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are among the world's least developed. In fact, assets in most low-income African countries are smaller than those held by a single medium-sized bank in an industrial country. The absence of deep, efficient financial markets seriously challenges policy making, hinders poverty alleviation, and constrains growth. This book argues that building efficient and sound financial sectors in SSA countries will improve Africa's economic prospects. Based on a review of the key features of financial systems, it discusses the main obstacles and challenges that financial structures pose for SSA economies and recommends steps that could address major shortcomings in implementing the reform agenda.

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive review and discussion of meiosis, the antithesis of fertilization. Meiosis is a special form of nuclear division "invented" by sexually reproducing eukaryotes to ensure that a correct chromosome complement is maintained over successive generations...read more

Product Description: Reprint of: Cytogenetic and Genome Research 2005, Vol. 111, No. 3-4 The world experts in the fields of human gamete cytogenetics and the etiology of aneuploidy discuss the latest research in this volume. The frequency and distribution of abnormalities in human oocytes and sperm are explored, as are the effects of maternal and paternal ages...read more

Product Description: Cell Surface Proteases provides a comprehensive overview of these important enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of a protein as it degrades to a simpler substance. In the 1990s, an explosion of new discoveries shed light on the role of cell surface proteases and extended it beyond degradation of extracellular matrix components to include its influence on growth factors, cell signaling, and other cellular events...read more

Product Description: This volume provides broad insights to the most recent discoveries in telomere biology, with current applications in tumor diagnostics and future potentials in therapy. Special features of diverse organisms are presented, with ciliates, the "telomerase discoverer organisms"; yeasts, the "molecular genetisists' toy for eukaryotes"; including plants and insects as well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Cytogenetics is concerned with matching inherited traits with the appearance, structure, and behavior of chromosomes. The first volume, Human Cytogenetics: Constitutional Analysis, covers all aspects of basic human cytogenetic study other than malignancies and acquired abnormalities...read more

Product Description: The advent of molecular technologies has lead to a rapid acceleration in the cytogenetic study of malignancy and acquired abnormalities. As well as having a chapter devoted to molecular technologies (FISH, PRINS, and CGH), molecular methodology is emphasized in all chapters, for example the role of CGH in solid tumour cytogenetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The advent of molecular technologies has lead to a rapid acceleration in the cytogenetic study of malignancy and acquired abnormalities. As well as having a chapter devoted to molecular technologies (FISH, PRINS, and CGH), molecular methodology is emphasized in all chapters, for example the role of CGH in solid tumour cytogenetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Human Cytogenetics: Constitutional Analysis covers all basic aspects of human cytogenetic study other than malignancies and abnormalities. They are covered in a separate volume. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 1992, there have been major advances in technology and the emphasis of this new edition is on the spectrum of technologies available to conventional and molecular cytogenetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Genetic Engineering 2/e provides a concise introduction to all the key technologies of genetic engineering, including PCR, hybridization met hods, gene mapping, cloning and targeting, and the applications of the se techniques in the analysis and manipulation of mammalian genes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Analyzing Chromosomes is the user friendly guide to cytogenetic techniques. Basic theory is explained and linked with suggestions for suitable protocols. Techniques are provided in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format with hints and tips to guide the novice...read more

Product Description: Quality of the Body Cell Mass presents proceedings of the International Symposium on Quality of the Body Cell Mass held in Fort Lauderdale , Florida. The text describes the states of the art of making measurements of body composition, including the methods and their interactions, and provides examples of applications that describe individual studies in the clinical areas of AIDS, obesity, osteoporosis, aging, wasting, and chronic disease...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume covers the latest advances in this rapidly expanding field. This unique field of science has enabled scientists to shed new light on evolution, development, sensory cell function, and hereditary deafness on a gene and molecular level, and to apply these techniques to the understanding of the pathogenesis, prevention, and cure of ear disorders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A better "casting" could not be conceived. The authors of this book are gold­ smiths on the subject. I have followed their work since their "entry" into cyto­ genetics and I have a high esteem for them. I consider it an honour to be asked to write the preface of their opus...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different colonial powers and state governments: the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of the Southwest, the colonization of the Northeast by the French and British, nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the swelling United States and Canada, and twentieth-century struggles for native people's spiritual integrity and freedom. Each chapter deals with a specific dimension of the relationship between native peoples and non-native institutions, and together these topics yield a new understanding of the forces directed against the underpinnings of native cultures. (view table of contents)

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