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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure was Nearly Lost--and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail

March 28, 2025 03:49 PM
A remarkable story of the scientists behind a long-forgotten and life-saving cure: the healing viruses that can conquer antibiotic resistant bacterial infections.

Uploaded March 2025

Gain of Function

March 28, 2025 03:44 PM
How a small number of risky experiments creates many unwieldy problems for life science research.

Uploaded March 2025

The Complexities, Key Concepts and Mechanisms of Immunology

March 10, 2025 05:33 PM
This concise and comprehensive guide describes the complexities, key concepts and mechanisms of the immune system in a simplified manner. The book provides a clear and accessible overview of the body’s defense mechanisms, covering various aspects such as the structure and function of immune cells, the mechanisms of antigen recognition and response, the regulation of immune responses through the release of cytokines, and dysfunctions of the immune system which lead to autoimmunity and hypersensitivity.

Uploaded March 2025

Our Future is Biotech: A Plain English Guide to How a Tech Revolution is Changing Our Lives and Our Health for the Better

March 10, 2025 05:30 PM
Our Future is Biotech explains why biotech is next: because our biggest remaining challenges as a species concern biological systems. Biotech companies will solve our most intractable problems, from cancer, dementia, obesity and diabetes to elderly care, mental health conditions, and even clean power generation, agricultural production and environmental degradation.

Uploaded March 2025

Microbe Hunting : Unveiling the Secrets of Microorganisms through Assessment, Sequencing, and Bioinformatics Analysis

March 10, 2025 05:26 PM
"Microbe Hunting: Unveiling the Secrets of Microorganisms through Assessment, Sequencing, and Bioinformatics Analysis" explores the world of microorganisms, focusing on their diversity, ecological roles, and technological advancements, using assessment techniques, sequencing, and bioinformatics analysis.

Uploaded March 2025

Viral Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control

September 26, 2024 05:48 PM
The new Fifth Edition of Viral Infections of Humans captures the both the excitement and frustration of the dynamic struggle between humankind and the viruses that continue to cause immense suffering.

Uploaded October 2024

Tu Youyou's journey in The Search for Artemisinin

September 26, 2024 05:37 PM
Tu Youyou's Journey in the Search for Artemisinin is an autobiographical science book chronicling in detail the great experiences of Tu Youyou from her childhood to winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Uploaded October 2024

The Promise and Peril of CRISPR

September 26, 2024 05:34 PM
A timely collection of essays on the pressing possibilities and risks of gene-editing technology.

Uploaded October 2024

Plant-microbes-engineered nano-particles (PM-ENPs) nexus in agro-ecosystems: Understanding the interaction of plant, microbes and engineered nano-particles (ENPs)

September 26, 2024 05:31 PM
This book presents a collection of cross-disciplinary research, with contributions addressing all key features of the plant/microbe/ENP nexus in agro-ecosystems.

Aquatic biotechnologies: from genetic engineering to enzymatic or fermentation engineering

September 26, 2024 05:28 PM
Aquatic Biotechnologies presents an overview of biotechnological processes (genetic, enzymatic and fermentative engineering) as applied to aquatic organisms and their production methods (traditional aquaculture and aquaculture producing genetically modified organisms).

Greg Nelson

Chemical and Life Sciences Librarian
greg_nelson@byu.edu