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Medical Biotechnology

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Medical Biotechnology explores how modern biotechnology is revolutionising healthcare by delivering innovative diagnostic tools, preventative measures, and treatments for human diseases. This accessible textbook unravels complex concepts to provide a clear understanding of diverse scientific approaches employed to tackle medical challenges.
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Ideal for premed and medical students, dental students, pharmacists, optometrists, nurses, nutritionists, genetic counsellors, hospital administrators, and others invested in the field and future of medical biotechnology.

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The future is now--this groundbreaking textbook illustrates how biotechnology has radically changed the way we think about health care

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The future is now—this groundbreaking textbook illustrates how biotechnology has radically changed the way we think about health care.

Biotechnology is delivering not only new products to diagnose, prevent, and treat human disease but entirely new approaches to a wide range of difficult biomedical challenges. Because of advances in biotechnology, hundreds of new therapeutic agents, diagnostic tests, and vaccines have been developed and are available in the marketplace.

In this jargon-free, easy-to-read textbook, the authors demystify the discipline of medical biotechnology and present a roadmap that provides a fundamental understanding of the wide-ranging approaches pursued by scientists to diagnose, prevent, and treat medical conditions.

Medical Biotechnology is written to educate premed and medical students, dental students, pharmacists, optometrists, nurses, nutritionists, genetic counsellors, hospital administrators, and individuals who are stakeholders in the understanding and advancement of biotechnology and its impact on the practice of modern medicine.

Hardcover, 700 pages, full-colour illustrations throughout, glossary, index.

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"Medical Biotechnology will be an essential textbook for senior undergraduate and postgraduate courses in biotechnology in many universities." – Michael Butler, Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781555817053

Publisher: American Society for Microbiology

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 December 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: American Society for Microbiology

Contributors:

  • Edited by Bernard R. Glick
  • Edited by Cheryl L. Patten
  • Edited by Terry L. Delovitch

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 41.0mm

Width: 226.0mm

Height: 287.0mm

Weight: 2336g

Pages: 758

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