A select group of highly renowned scientists - among them four Nobel Prize Winners - have been asked to summarize significant developments of their ownrecent research in the life sciences at a workshop organized on the occasionof the opening of the new Paul-Ehrlich-Institut in Langen near Frankfurt/ Main. They do this in a comparative fashion evaluating similar achievements in adjacent fields. Their intellectual state-of-the-art analysis and fascinating outlook on future perspectives provides exciting and stimulating reading. The authors address areas in virology, immunology, oncology and evolution. Intelligent design of vaccines and other immunologial drugs, virus evolution and viruses as nature's engineers, pathology of chronic autoimmune and central nervous system diseases and the biology of mammary cancer belong to the topics discussed. A book easy to read for scientists, doctors and students interested in rapidly developing fields in the life sciences.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
ISBN-13
9783642770814
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208763677
Product Key Features
Author
Walther K. Schwerdtfeger, Reinhard Kurth
Publication Name
Current Topics in Biomedical Research
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
185 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
314g
Additional Product Features
Editor
Reinhard Kurth, Walther K. Schwerdtfeger
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany
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