Understanding Bioanalytical Chemistry (eBook)

"The title captures the ethos and content precisely. It brings
basic chemistry into real life with examples that illustrate how
chemical principals are inherent to bioanalytical procedures,
making them accessible to readers with a background in life
sciences." -Microbiology Today, July 2009

"... a good overview of the basic strategies to
tackle the complexity of analysis in biological environments and
provides some illustrative examples for a better understanding of
the theoretical concepts... provides a fundamental introduction
to the tools adopted by life and health scientists in the evolving
and exciting new age of "omics" specifically applied to
the diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of
disease..." -Analytical and Bioanalytical
Chemistry, October 2009

Although chemistry is core to the life and health sciences, it is
often viewed as a challenging subject.

Conventional textbooks tend to present chemistry in a way that
is not always easily accessible to students, particularly those
coming from diverse educational backgrounds, who may not have
formally studied chemistry before.

This prompted the authors to write this particular textbook,
taking a new, fresh and innovative approach to teaching and
learning of chemistry, focusing on bioanalysis to set knowledge in
context. This textbook is primarily targeted to undergraduate life
and health science students, but may be a useful resource for
practising scientists in a range of disciplines.

In this textbook the authors have covered basic principles,
terminology and core technologies, which include key modern
experimental techniques and equipment used to analyse important
biomolecules in diagnostic, industrial and research settings.

Written by two authors with a wealth of experience in teaching,
research and academic enterprise, this textbook represents an
invaluable tool for students and instructors across the diverse
range of biological and health science courses.

Key Features:

* Innovative, stand alone teaching and learning resource to
enhance delivery of undergraduate chemistry provision to life and
health scientists.

* Develops student knowledge and understanding of core concepts
with reference to relevant, real-life, examples.

* Clearly written and user-friendly, with numerous full colour
illustrations, annotated images, diagrams and tables to enhance
learning.

* Incorporates a modern approach to teaching and learning to
motivate the reader and encourage student-centred learning.

* Dr Victor Gault has been named recipient of the Rising Star
Award 2009 by the internationally acclaimed European
Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).