Showing posts with label Discovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discovery. Show all posts

Monday, May 9, 2016

Applying Genomic and Proteomic Microarray Technology in Drug Discovery (2nd Edition)




Applying Genomic and Proteomic Microarray Technology in Drug Discovery (2nd Edition) By Robert S. Matson
2013 | 322 Pages | ISBN: 1439855633 | PDF | 20 MB



Microarrays play an increasingly significant role in drug discovery. The commercial landscape has changed dramatically over the past few years and researchers have made great advancements with regard to construction and use. Now in its second edition, Applying Genomic and Proteomic Microarray Technology in Drug Discovery highlights, describes, and evaluates current scientific research using microarray technology in genomic and proteomic applications.

Unique to this edition is a new chapter on multiplex assays that examines the development and applications of arrays across diverse platforms. It discusses applications for qPCR, multiplex lateral flow, and multiplex bead assays. It also presents platform-to-platform comparisons.
Microarrays remain an invaluable tool for omics-based research not only in drug discovery, but in the life sciences, in clinical research, and for diagnostic applications worldwide. This volume presents the current state of the art on the utility of this technology to solve a host of important biological problems.



Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Into the Heart of Our World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth: A Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery





David Whitehouse, “Into the Heart of Our World: A Journey to the Center of the Earth: A Remarkable Voyage of Scientific Discovery”

ISBN: 1605989592 | 2016 | EPUB | 288 pages | 4 MB



An enthralling and extraordinary adventure vividly charting the mysteries of the deep Earth, the history of our planet, and the latest discoveries about its inner core.


The journey to the center of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over 3000 km below the earth’s surface, an extraordinary inner world the size of Mars awaits us. Dive through the molten iron of the outer core and eventually you will reach a solid sphere —an iron-clad world held within a metal sea and unattached to anything above. At the earth’s core is the history of our planet written in temperature and pressure, crystals and minerals …


Our planet appears tranquil from outer space. And yet the arcs of volcanoes, the earthquake zones, and the auroral glow rippling above our heads are testimony to the remarkable happenings within the earth’s core. For thousands of years these phenomena were explained in legend and myth. Only in recent times has the brave new science of seismology emerged. One hundred and fifty years after the extraordinary, imaginative feat of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, David Whitehouse embarks on a voyage of scientific discovery into the heart of our world.


Seismologists today reveal a planet astonishingly buried within a planet. We watch as supercomputers convert signals from the ground into three-dimensional scans of subterranean continents. We will visit laboratories where scientists attempt to reproduce the intense conditions at the center of the Earth, travel down the throat of a volcano, look into the deepest hole ever drilled, and imagine a voyage through enormous crystals of iron…all at the center of our incredible Earth.