How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic? This book is for anybody with interest in protecting life on the planet. A major focus is the spread of microbes, Lynch showing how failure to control disease can lead to the collapse of any biotic population.

How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic? This book is for anybody with interest in protecting life on the planet. A major focus is the spread of microbes, Lynch showing how failure to control disease can lead to the collapse of any biotic population.

This book provides a link between different disciplines of nanophysics, biophotonics, nanobiomaterials & applications of nanobiophotonics in biomedical research and engineering. The book combines theoretical and experimental research, emphasizing the influence of crucial common factors on applications.

This book is dedicated to the field of conductive polymers, focusing on electrical interactions with biological systems. It addresses the use of conductive polymers as the conducting interface for electrical communications with the biological system, both in vitro and in vivo. It provides an overview on the chemistry and physics of conductive po

This reference contains cutting-edge material-considerably expanded and with additional analysis-from the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics.

Tissue Engineering provides an overview of the major physiologic systems of current interest to biomedical engineers: the cardiovascular, endocrine, nervous, visual, auditory, gastrointestinal, and respiratory systems. It contains useful definitions, tables of basic physiologic data, and an introduction to the literature. The book reviews the statu

Over the past decades there has been increasing interest in thermodynamics as applied to biological systems. This concerns topics such as muscle work and internal energy such as fat and starch. Applications of the first and second laws of thermodynamics to the human body are important to dieticians and health science experts, and applications to

This book describes the physics and architectures of widely tunable lasers. Fully updated and expanded to address important advances in science and technology, the third edition contains new chapters on tunable laser microscopy and laser isotope separation; extends coverage of optical parametric oscillators and their application to biomedicine,

Polymers have emerged as one of the most innovative classes of materials in modern materials science, leading to new applications in medicine and pharmacy. This book offers a convincing and understandable approach to polymer biomaterial devices being used in various areas related to biomedical and pharmaceutical fields. The polymer materials fin