Integration of chemistry and biology

Chemical Biology is one of the fastest areas of science as a multidisciplinary during this century. The interdisciplinary study of molecules in living systems at a health science campus helps to integrate the traditional disciplines of chemistry and biology by understanding the molecular mecharrisms of biological processes provides an opportunity to manipirlate them in a defined and predictable way. 

Miniaturization—chemistry and biology on a chip—has resulted only because of the confluence of science and engineering. The development of micro-fluidics technology has mainly been driven by the need to miniaturize, integrate, and automate biochemical analysis to increase speed and reduce costs. We are experiencing a revolution in the miniaturization of chemical systems for detection and analysis of hosts of chemical and biological materials and agents. Applications of basic principles of electrokinetics, hydraulics, and surface science have... 

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The Division of Chemistry and the Environment of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has recently approved the creation of an IUPAC-sponsored book series entitled Biophysico-Chemical Processes in Environmental Systems to be published by John Wiley Sons, Hoboken, NJ. This series addresses the fundamentals of physical-chemical-biological interfacial interactions in the environment and the impacts on (1) the transformation, transport and fate of nutrients and pollutants, (2) food chain contamination and food quality and safety, and (3) ecosystem health, including human health. In contrast to classical books that focus largely on separate physical, chemical, and biological processes, this book series is unique in integrating the frontiers of knowledge on both fundamentals and impacts on interfacial interactions of these processes in the global environment. 

With the rapid developments in environmental physics, chemistry, and biology, it is becoming much harder, if not impossible, for scientists to follow new developments outside their immediate area of research by reading the primary research literature. This book series will capture pertinent research topics of significant current interest and will present to the environmental science community a distilled and integrated version of new developments in biophysico-chemical processes in environmental systems. 

Susumu Kitagawa, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan, Kitagawa Integrated Pore Project, Exploratory Research for... 

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