**APPLIED BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING – PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE**

Edited by **Ganesh R. Naik** 

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2101 Edited by Ganesh R. Naik

#### **Contributors**

Nobutaka Maezaki, Andrei Doncescu, Katsumi Inoue, Nathalie Goma, Sebastien Regis, Veronika Kralj-Iglič, Drago Dolinar, Matej Daniel, Matic Ivanovski, Ivo List, Nevena Ackovska, Liljana Bozinovska, Stevo Bozinovski, Ana Tusek, Želimir Kurtanjek, Sakthivel Lakshmana Prabu, Suriyaprakash Tnk, Mahmud Hasan, Zully Ritter, Raja Dahmane, Kazushige Oshita, Sumio Yano, Amanda Valentim, Renata Furlan, Tatiana Perilo, Andréa Motta, Márcio Barroso, Monalise Berbert, Cláudio Costa, Iracema Maria Braga, Estevam Barbosa Las Casas, Aleksander Paterno, Lucas Hermann Negri, Pedro Bertemes-Filho, Danilo Barbosa Melges, Antonio Mauricio Ferreira Leite Miranda De Sá, Antonio Fernando Infantosi, Seishin Takao, Shigeru Tadano, Hiroshi Taguchi, Hiroki Shirato, Valdemar Garcia, Rui Lima, Ricardo Dias, Airton Ramos, Andrea Schneider, Yuelin Zhang, Shigeru Aomura, Hiromichi Nakadate, Satoshi Fujiwara, Jose Maria De La Roca-Chiapas, Rudra Bhandari, Michal Rychlik, Zhu, Damir Kralj, Giorgio Bonmassar, Leonardo Angelone, Caitriona Lally, Houman Zahedmanesh, Paul A. Cahill, Hossein Parsaei, Tulimar Cornacchia, João Batista Novaes Jr, Elissa Talma, Willian Henrique Vasconcelos, Carlos Alberto Cimini Jr., Rodrigo Peixoto, Tjitske Heida, Jan Stegenga, Marcel Lourens, Hil Meijer, Stephan Van Gils, Enrico Marani, Nikolai Lazarov, Nicolae Marius Roman, Stefan Gergely

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Applied Biological Engineering - Principles and Practice Edited by Ganesh R. Naik

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