Bioanalytics for Beginners

Modeled in its aims and graphic presentation on the supremely successful manual Biotechnology for Beginners, this book is angled at students and higher-education instructors of medicine, biotechnology, biochemistry, chemistry and the ecological sciences; medical technologists; lab technicians; biology and chemistry teachers; and readers of Scientific American looking for a readily understandable introduction to biological analysis methods and their applications.Largely speaking, it deals with bioanalytic facts, examining the way they interconnect and the background knowledge required to understand them, yet it also discusses the economic and ethical pros and cons involved. The text is easy to read and strongly geared to teaching the subject. Further, the wide range of pictorial features makes it especially interesting and entertaining. The layout is based on that of Biotechnology for Beginners. This manual is an excellent preparation for the Spektrum book on bioanalysis as well as the experimentation volumes from the same publisher.

Reinhard Renneberg has been a Professor of Analytic Biotechnology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (www.ust.hk) since 1955. He is the author of the extremely successful and much-lauded volume Biotechnology for Beginners, of which over 5,300 copies have been sold in 18 months. He has also written three other books on biotechnology, including Katzenklon. He is a co-author of the Roempp Biotechnology Dictionary, has written four monographs and 250 publications and holds 20 patents. In addition, he is involved in two biotechnology companies in Germany and China.