1. Edition - June 2007
169.- Euro
2007. 1680 Pages, Hardcover
- Handbook/Reference Book -
ISBN-10: 0-471-21386-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-21386-4 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
This Handbook describes the use of biotechnology to develop pharmaceuticals. The process of biotechnological drug development systematically identifies which protein is causing a problem in the body - either because it is absent, defective, or excessive - and then identifies and engineers a protein or related molecule to correct the problem. The Handbook of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology gives the professional a basic tool to facilitate the development of biotech medicines by bringing together, in one resource, a general but, not trivial, overview of biotechnology used in the drug development process, along with a compendium of regulations and validation methods that need to be considered when using biotech to develop a new drug.

From the contents
Preface.

2 From Defi ning Bioinformatics and Pharmacogenomics to Developing Information-Based Medicine and Pharmacotyping in Health Care (Ioannis S. Vizirianakis).

9 Protein Engineering with Noncoded Amino Acids: Applications to Hirudin (Vincenzo De Filippis).

11 Overview of Stem and Artifi cial Cells (Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez, Nalu Navarro-Alvarez, Jorge David Rivas-Carrillo, and Naoya Kobayashi).

Index.