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This open access book offers the first comprehensive account of the pan-genome concept and its manifold implications. The realization that the genetic repertoire of a biological species always encompasses more than the genome of each individual is…

When the war was over in 1945, Germany was a country with no government, little functioning infrastructure, millions of refugees and homeless people, and huge foreign armies living largely off the land. Large parts of the country were covered in…

Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but…

This special issue of JCM ‘The Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis’ will walk the Readers across novel diagnostic achievements in atherosclerosis and contemporary actions towards optimizing therapy.Everything begins with diagnosis. Accurate…

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With…

Incorporates etymology, history, art, drawing, and reflective writing to support medical students in the integration of the science and humanity of anatomy. A comprehensive and holistic understanding of human anatomy is foundational to the care of…

With the help of this in-depth manual, explore the cutting-edge of regenerative dentistry. This book examines recent developments and new ideas influencing dental treatment, from scaffold-mediated tissue regeneration to individualized dentistry.…

The topics covered in this Special Issue range from breastfeeding and early-life nutrition
to effects on microbiota, infection, allergy, asthma, and the mechanisms of
immunomodulation via (the early introduction of) nutrition on infections and…

Sight is the most important sense in higher mammals. The retina is the first step in visual processing and the window to the brain. It is not surprising that problems that arise with the retina lead to moderate to severe vision problems. Here we…

Biofilms are multicellular sessile microbial communities embedded in hydrated extracellular polymeric matrices. Their formation is common in microbial life in most environments, whereas those formed on food-processing surfaces are of considerable…