EBOOK Introduction To Metabolic And Cellular Engineering, An

Metabolic and cellular engineering, as presented in this book, is a powerful alliance of two technologies: genetics–molecular biology and fermentation technology. Both are driven by continuous refinement of the basic understanding of metabolism, physiology and cellular biology (growth, division, differentiation), as well as the development of new mathematical modeling techniques. The authors' approach is original in that it integrates several disciplines into a coordinated scheme, i.e. microbial physiology and bioenergetics, thermodynamics and enzyme kinetics, biomathematics and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. Thus, it is called a transdisciplinary approach (TDA). The TDA provides the basis for the rational design of microorganisms or cells in a way that has rarely been utilized to its full extent.Contents:Matter and Energy BalancesCell Growth and Metabolite Production. Basic ConceptsMethods of Quantitation of Cellular “Processes Performance”Dynamic Aspects of Bioprocess BehaviorBioprocess Development with Plant CellsCellular EngineeringReadership: Undergraduates, graduates and researchers in biomedical engineering, biochemistry and biotechnology.Key Features:This book looks at China as a civilization, one that has existed for five to seven thousand years, and inquires how the core values of this civilization bear on the presentIt offers succinct, illuminating, contrasts with the West and Japan, in their comparable stages of development, such as the non-development of capitalism in China after the end of its Zhou feudal era (in 3rd century B C), while capitalism flourished in post-feudal West and JapanThe book sees China's past and present as falling into an integral whole, so that the reader will be able to trace modern developments to the country's long political and cultural tradition. One example is to find the rationale of the Dengist “socialism with Chinese characteristics” as rooted in the country's tradition of a “quasi-state capitalism” that lasted from the third century B C through the early 20th century. Another example is to locate the historical antecedent of the legacy that the state was larger than society. It sprang from the long-existing official Keju system, by which the state literally became the authoritative certifying agent of social mobility, determining society's hierarchy and societal distribution of power. Although the Keju system is now defunct, the legacy dies hard. This is an innovative reinterpretation that differs from earlier prevailing views that laid the blame on Confucianism