Contents: Preface. 1. Recent developments in Chondrocyte cultures and cartilage engineering/R.K. Saxena, Garima Sharma and Prashant Mishra. 2. Human granulocyte-colony stimulating factor: a therapeutic protein/Shyam Sundar Nandi, Chiranjib Chakraborty, J.K. Deb and Ragini Gothalwal. 3. Chemical analysis of leaves of Cestrum diurnum (L.) (solanales: solanaceae) and seasonal variation of some primary and secondary biochemicals/A. Ghosh and G. Chandra. 4. Protein folding pathways: its kinetics and related functions/Surajit Sinha, Shyam Sundar Nandi, Akash Verma, Ragini Gothalwal and T.K. Maiti. 5. Recombinant therapeutic proteins from bacteria, animal and plant cells/J.K. Deb. 6. Programmed cell death: an overview/Satyendra Gautam and Arun Sharma. 7. Biocatalysis: an emerging field in the synthesis of Eenantio-pure compounds/Mani Shankar Bhattacharyya, Sawraj Singh, Anirban Banerjee, Praveen Kaul, Pankaj Soni, Brajesh Barse, Rohit Sharma and U.C. Banerjee. 8. Use of immunostimulant in aquaculture/Arup Tewary and Bidhan C. Patra. 9. Application of environmental biotechnological tools in water resource development/Biplab Sarkar, Debabrata Mukherjee, S. Adhikari and S. Ayyappan. 10. Induced breeding techniques for aquaculture/M.A. Haniffa. 11. Pharmacogenomics based emerging drug discovery strategies/S.A. Bapat and G.C. Mishra. Index.

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