This book is a translation of the successful German text, "Bioanalytik fur Einsteiger". This volume goes far beyond simply reviewing modern and sophisticated biochemical and molecular biological laboratory methods. Instructional design elements complement the text, through the use of charts exploring complex bio-processes, full-color three-dimensional graphics of important molecular structures, and boxes highlighting historical aspects behind the scientists whose ideas and experiments have led us to modern bioanalytic research.
Preface
Chapter 1 The Nanoru - The incredible story of its isolation, purification, and characterization
Chapter 2 Biomolecules in tests - Instrumental Bioanalytics
Chapter 3 Biocatalysis - enzymes and enzyme tests
Chapter 4 Bio-affinity I: antibodies and immune tests
Chapter 5 Bio-affinity II: biological receptors - nature as unsurpassed Bioanalysis lab worker
Chapter 6 DNA, RNA, and their amplification
Chapter 7 Biosensors
Chapter 8 Pharmaceuticals on the bench
Insert: Bioanalysis - an independent science: a timetable on the first and last book pages
Glossary
Credits
Index
Reinhard Renneberg has been a Professor of Analytic Biotechnology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (www.ust.hk) since 1955. He is the author of the extremely successful and much-lauded volume "Biotechnology for Beginners", of which over 5,300 copies have been sold in 18 months. He has also written three other books on biotechnology, including "Katzenklon". He is a co-author of the Roempp "Biotechnology Dictionary", has written four monographs and 250 publications and holds 20 patents. In addition, he is involved in two biotechnology companies in Germany and China.