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Recent work has revealed that stabilizing G-quadruplexes in telomeric DNA inhibits telomerase activity, providing impetus for the development of G-quartet-interacting drugs, while G-quartet-containing oligonucleotides have been recognized as a potent class of aptamers effective against STAT3 and other transcription factors implicated in...

Extensively and thoroughly written, New Technologies in Urology offers a definitive guide to the ever-changing and expanding landscape of available tools, methods and techniques for urological practice. This book#8217;s authorship of highly acclaimed experts in the field ensures that the reader enjoys not only a comprehensive but a highly...

Photosynthetic Adaptation: Chloroplast to Landscapenbsp;thoroughly studies photosynthetic mechanisms at each structural level, from cells to leaves, crown, and canopy.nbsp;The authors question whether photosynthetic adaptations take place primarily at the metabolic and biochemical level or through changes in structure and form, or both.nbsp;In the...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking, NEW2AN 2010, held in conjunction with the Third Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2009 in St. Petersburg, Russia, in August 2010. The 27 revised NEW2AN full papers are organized in topical...

Introductory Comments On Host-Parasite Interactions.- Biology of Plant-Fungus Interactions.- Fundamental Questions Related to Plant-Fungal Interactions: Can Recombinant DNA Technology Provide the Answers?.- Cellular Modifications during Host-Fungus Interactions in Endomycorrhizae.- Cellular Interactions between Phaseolus vulgaris and the...

The application of circuits and systems and engineering principles to problems in the medicine has led to the emergence of biomedical circuits and systems as an exciting and rapidly growing area of research. Nanotechnology provides new nano-structured materials with amazing properties. The properties offered by nanomaterials can be applied to...