Comprehensive Biotechnology

Volume 1 Scientific fundamentals of biotechnology (edited by Michael Butler)

Section 1. The biochemical basis Section 2. The biological basis Section 3. The genetic basis Section 4. Systems biology Section 5. The metabolic basis Section 6. The biophysical basis Section 7. The computational basis Section 8. Analysis and control

Volume 2 Engineering fundamentals of biotechnology (edited by Colin Webb)

Section 1. Underlying principles Section 2. Upstream processing Section 3. Bioreactors Section 4. Bioreactions and bioreactor operation Section 5. Downstream processing and product recovery Section 6. Process considerations Section 7. Other considerations

Volume 3 Industrial biotechnology and commodity products (edited by Antonio Moreira)

Section 1.Bulk commodities (Industrial enzymes; Biofuels and bioenergy; Bio-based chemicals; Biomaterials) Section 2. Healthcare products Section 3. Food ingredients Section 4. Other considerations

Volume 4: Agricultural and related biotechnologies (edited by Bernard Grodzinski)

Section 1.Plant systems Section 2.Animal systems Section 3. Food systems Section 4. Integration of biotechnologies Section 5. Socio-economic considerations

Volume 5: Medical biotechnology and healthcare (edited by Z.F. Cui)

Section 1. Enabling technology Section 2. Tissue engineering and stem cell therapy Section 3. Biopharmaceuticals, in vitro drug testing and drug delivery Section 4. Artificial organs and life support devices

Volume 6: Environmental biotechnology and safety (edited by Spiros Agathos)

Section 1. Industrial and toxic wastes Section 2. Municipal wastes Section 3. Wastes from agriculture, forestry and food processing Section 4. Other considerations

Moo-Young, Murray
Murray Moo-Young is a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Before academia, he worked in England for the British Ministry of Industry. A Jamaican-Chinese Canadian, Murray received his degrees from the University of London (BSc Chemistry, PhD Biochemical Engineering) and University of Toronto (MASc Chemical Engineering) followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. He has been a visiting professor at top universities worldwide including MIT, UC Berkeley, University of Oxford, Federal Polytechnic Institute Lausanne, University of Karlsruhe, Dalian University of Science and Technology and Osaka University. To date, his research has produced 13 books, nine patents and over 355 papers. He is an international consultant to industry and government and the executive editor of the journal Biotechnology Advances (Impact Factor 8.250). Dr. Moo-Young's honors include the top awards of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and the American Chemical Society, Biochemical Technology Division. As an elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (FAIMBE) and the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), "the highest accolade for an academic in Canada", Dr. Moo-Young has come to be known as a leader in the field of biotechnology.

"It would be very difficult to thoroughly cover the scope of biotechnology in one book. But this new edition of Comprehensive Biotechnology (1st ed., 1989) accomplishes what the title claims; the six-volume set provides detailed synopses of the applications, instruments, methodologies, and principles of modern biotechnology. Volume 1 provides the science background needed to understand biotechnology; it covers the essential biochemistry, biology, biophysics, chemistry, and computer science used in biotechnology applications and research. An explanation of engineering principles relevant to biotechnology follows in volume 2. The authors focus on engineering concepts appropriate to biotechnology product manufacturing. The third volume builds on the first two volumes in its coverage of biotechnology applications in industry and commodity products, including coverage of food ingredients, clinical products, and specialty chemicals. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals."--CHOICE Review of the 1st Edition: "Murray Moo-Young and his colleagues have brought off a notable success in producing this work... Comprehensive Biotechnology will be an essential purchase for all departments and institutions, academic or industrial, that claim an interest in any aspect of the ill-defined field popularly known as biotechnology..." --Nature, Volume 321 (1986)

"It would be very difficult to thoroughly cover the scope of biotechnology in one book. But this new edition of Comprehensive Biotechnology (1st ed., 1989) accomplishes what the title claims; the six-volume set provides detailed synopses of the applications, instruments, methodologies, and principles of modern biotechnology. Volume 1 provides the science background needed to understand biotechnology; it covers the essential biochemistry, biology, biophysics, chemistry, and computer science used in biotechnology applications and research. An explanation of engineering principles relevant to biotechnology follows in volume 2. The authors focus on engineering concepts appropriate to biotechnology product manufacturing. The third volume builds on the first two volumes in its coverage of biotechnology applications in industry and commodity products, including coverage of food ingredients, clinical products, and specialty chemicals. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals."-- CHOICE

Review of the 1st Edition:

"Murray Moo-Young and his colleagues have brought off a notable success in producing this work... Comprehensive Biotechnology will be an essential purchase for all departments and institutions, academic or industrial, that claim an interest in any aspect of the ill-defined field popularly known as biotechnology..." - - Nature, Volume 321 (1986)