Transgenic Animals: Principles and Development

  • Publication Year: 2017
  • ISBN: 9781680957679
  • Price: $170
  • Publisher: Delve Publishing LLC
  • Binding Type: Hardcover

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An overview of genome modification methods and the transgenic animal models for human complex diseases, the pros and cons of model systems, the history and recent progress of preclinical therapy research in the transgenic animal models is presented. The current and emerging challenges in different medicine fields and ways to address these challenges using animal models as well as the opportunities that non-mainstream animals offer for current and future biomedical research are discussed.

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Aleksei A. Stepanenko received his Masters’s degree in Biochemistry from  V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and PhD in Molecular biology from Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, where he is currently working as a Research Fellow. His scope of interests is genomic and phenotypic evolution of tumor cells under chemotherapeutic stresses and viro-immunological approaches as an alternative perspective in cancer therapy.