The book is aimed at providing an exposure to some important topics which are generally not covered adequately in formal courses in biotechnology. It informs the readers about:
- How micro-fluidics are proving useful in enzyme kinetics
- Chemi-proteomics; combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening in the context of drug discovery
- How enzymes can be used with gaseous substrates?
- How to source more robust enzymes from marine resources for diverse applications?
- Why some nano-materials can be chiral?
- Synthesis of diverse quantum dots as powerful fluorescent probes in biology
- How basics of surface chemistry and immunology are vital in dealing with endemics/pandemics like Covid-19
Munishwar Nath Gupta taught chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology at IIT Delhi [1975-2018]. A Ph.D [Biochemistry] from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was followed by post-doc at University of Minnesota [USA]; MIT [USA]; UTC [France] and Lund University [Sweden]. He is a fellow of both National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. His previous edited/co-edited books include Thermostability of Enzymes [Springer]; Interfaces of Nano-materials and Microbes [CRC]; Three Phase Partitioning [Elsevier] and Structure and Intrinsic disorder in Enzymology [Elsevier]. He is currently series editor for ‘’Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology’’ [Elsevier]. He has published 300 scientific articles with current h-index of 60.