TY - BOOK AU - Tyagi,Rajeev TI - Cell biotechnology SN - 8171419607 U1 - 610.28 23 PY - 2005/// CY - New Delhi PB - Discovery Pub. House KW - Engineering KW - Biotechnology KW - Bioinformatics KW - Mathematical analysis KW - Analysis (Mathematics) KW - Biophysics KW - Biological physics KW - Biomedical engineering KW - Biomedical Engineering KW - Biophysics and Biological Physics KW - Computational Biology/Bioinformatics KW - Analysis N1 - includes bibliography and index N2 - The application of methodological approaches and mathematical formalisms proper to Physics and Engineering to investigate and describe biological processes and design biological structures has led to the development of many disciplines in the context of computational biology and biotechnology. The best known applicative domain is tissue engineering and its branches. Recent domains of interest are in the field of biophysics, e.g.: multiscale mechanics of biological membranes and films and filaments; multiscale mechanics of adhesion; biomolecular motors and force generation.   Modern hypotheses, models, and tools are currently emerging and resulting from the convergence of the methods and philosophical approaches of the different research areas and disciplines. All these emerging approaches share the purpose of disentangling the complexity of organisms, tissues, and cells and mimicking the function of living systems. The contributions presented in this book are current research highlights of six challenging and representative applicative domains of phyisical, engineering, and computational approaches in medicine and biology, i.e tissue engineering, modelling of molecular structures, cell mechanics and cell adhesión processes, cancer physics, and physico-chemical processes of metabolic interactions. Each chapter presents a compendium or a review of the original results achieved by authors  in the last years. Furthermore, the book also wants to pinpoint the questions that are still open and that could propel future research ER -