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This book helps secondary life science teachers who are receptive to engineering ideas but struggle to develop age-appropriate, standards-based lessons. Offers open-ended design challenges for presenting engineering concepts in quick, engaging ways. Includes lessons that show how to use engineering concepts to enhance life science courses and draw on major content areas in biological sciences, including structures and processes, ecosystems, heredity, and biological evolution.

Bioengineering --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- Biological engineering --- Life science engineering --- Biology --- Engineering --- Synthetic biology

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Cryopreservation has many biotechnological applications in different fields. This has led to an increase in importance of cryobiology as a science that examines the effect of ultra-low temperatures on cells, tissues, organs and organisms and also the freezability of these structures, while maintaining their viability. Nowadays it is well known that this form of biotechnology can be used to solve a lot of problems such as human infertility, life threatening diseases, preservation of gametes and DNA and also biodiversity conservation. Cryopreservation Biotechnology in Biomedical and Biological Sciences describes principles and application of cryopreservation biotechnology in different research areas and includes seven chapters that have been written by experts in their research fields. The chapters included in this book are thought to improve the current understanding of the different areas of using cryopreservation biotechnology.

Bioengineering. --- Biological engineering --- Life science engineering --- Biology --- Engineering --- Synthetic biology --- Biomedical Engineering --- Biotechnology --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology

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Medical publishing. --- Science publishing. --- Scholarly publishing. --- Academic publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Science --- Scientific literature --- Medical literature --- Life science publishing --- Publishing

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Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, comes in a most human form: zoos and aquariums. Gathering a diverse, multi-institutional collection of leading zoo and aquarium scientists as well as historians, philosophers, biologists, and social scientists, The Ark and Beyond traces the history and underscores the present role of these organizations as essential conservation actors. It also offers a framework for their future course, reaffirming that if zoos and aquariums make biodiversity conservation a top priority, these institutions can play a vital role in tackling conservation challenges of global magnitude. While early menageries were anything but the centers of conservation that many zoos are today, a concern with wildlife preservation has been an integral component of the modern, professionally run zoo since the nineteenth century. From captive breeding initiatives to rewilding programs, zoos and aquariums have long been at the cutting edge of research and conservation science, sites of impressive new genetic and reproductive techniques. Today, their efforts reach even further beyond recreation, with educational programs, community-based conservation initiatives, and international, collaborative programs designed to combat species extinction and protect habitats at a range of scales. Addressing related topics as diverse as zoo animal welfare, species reintroductions, amphibian extinctions, and whether zoos can truly be "wild," this book explores the whole range of research and conservation practices that spring from zoos and aquariums while emphasizing the historical, scientific, and ethical traditions that shape these efforts. Also featuring an inspiring foreword by the late George Rabb, president emeritus of the Chicago Zoological Society / Brookfield Zoo, The Ark and Beyond illuminates these institutions' growing significance to the preservation of global biodiversity in this century.

Zoos. --- Aquariums. --- Conservation biology. --- Wildlife conservation. --- Endangered species --- Conservation. --- animal studies. --- aquariums. --- biodiversity. --- conservation history. --- endangered species. --- life science ethics. --- zoo biology. --- zoo conservation. --- zoos.

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This book covers the latest research development in heart valve biomechanics and bioengineering, with an emphasis on novel experimentation, computational simulation, and applications in heart valve bioengineering. The most current research accomplishments are covered in detail, including novel concepts in valvular viscoelasticity, fibril/molecular mechanisms of tissue behavior, fibril kinematics-based constitutive models, mechano-interaction of valvular interstitial and endothelial cells, biomechanical behavior of acellular valves and tissue engineered valves, novel bioreactor designs, biomechanics of transcatheter valves, and 3D heart valve printing. This is an ideal book for biomedical engineers, biomechanics, surgeons, clinicians, business managers in the biomedical industry, graduate and undergraduate students studying biomedical engineering, and medical students.

Biomechanics --- Bioengineering. --- Research --- Methodology. --- Biological engineering --- Life science engineering --- Biology --- Engineering --- Synthetic biology --- Biological mechanics --- Mechanical properties of biological structures --- Biophysics --- Mechanics --- Contractility (Biology) --- Biomedical engineering. --- Biotechnology. --- Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering. --- Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Medicine --- Regenerative medicine. --- Tissue engineering. --- Biomedical engineering --- Regenerative medicine --- Tissue culture --- Regeneration (Biology)