Human diseases : in vivo and in vitro models. Drosophila : a model for biotechnologists / K. Ravi Ram and D. Kar Chowdhuri -- Animal models of tuberculosis / Devyani Dube, Madhu Gupta, Udita Agrawal and Suresh P. Vyas -- Animal models for neurodegenerative disorders / Hitomi Tsuiji and Koji Yamanaka -- Epigenetics and animal models : applications in cancer control and treatment / Mukesh Verma, Neelesh Agarwal and Mudit Verma -- Development of mouse models for cancer research / Amrita Datta adn Debasis Mondal -- Human papillomavirus (HPV) : diagnosis and treatment / Mausumi Bharadwaj, Showket Hussain, Richa Tripathi, Neha Singh and Ravi Mehrotra -- Human DNA tumor viruses and oncogenesis / Pravinkumar Purushothaman and Subhash Chandra Verma -- Animal models for human disease / Mohammad Reza Khorramizadeh and Farshid Saadat -- HIV and antiretroviral drugs / Ashish Swarup Verma, Iqram Govind Singh, Ruby Bansal and Anchal Singh -- Animal biotechnology as a tool to understand and fight aging / Pawan Kumar Maurya -- Animal biotechnology : tools and techniques. Multicellular spheroid : 3-D tissue culture model for cancer research / Suchit Khanna, Anant Narayan Bhatt and Bilikere S. Dwarakanath -- Animal tissue culture : principles and applications / Anju Verma -- Concepts of tissue engineering / Poonam Verma and Vipin Verma -- Nanotechnology and its applications to animal biotechnology / Ashok K. Adya and Elisabetta Canetta -- Antibodies : monoclonal and polyclonal / Anchal Singh, Sushmita Chaudhary, Ashima Agarwal and Ashish Swarup Verma -- Molecular markers : tool for genetic analysis / Avinash Marwal, Anurag Kumar Sahu and R.K. Gaur -- Gene expression : analysis and quantitation / Denys V. Volgin -- Ribotyping : a tool for molecular taxonomy / S.K. Kashyap, S. Maherchandani and Naveen Kumar -- Next generation sequencing and its applications / Anuj Kumar Gupta and U.D. Gupta -- Biomolecular display technology : a new tool for drug discovery / Madhu Biyani, Koichi Nishigaki, adn Manish Biyani -- In silico models : from simple networks to complex diseases / Debmalya Barh, Vijender Chaitankar, Eugenia Ch Yiannakopoulou, Emmanuel O Salawu, Sudhir Chowbinia, Preetam Ghosh and Vasco Azevedo -- Animal biotechnology : applications and concerns. Transgenic animals and their applications / Shet Masih, Pooja Jain, Rahsa El Baz and Zafar K. Khan -- Stem cells : a trek from laboratory to clinic to industry / Bhudev C. Das and Abhisek Tyagi -- Role of cytogenetics and molecular genetics in human health and medicine / Madhumita Roy Chowdhury and Sudhisha Dubey -- Antibodies and their applications / Fahim Halim Khan -- Vaccines : present status and applications / Dinesh K. Yadave, Neelam Yadav and Satyendra Mohan Paul Khurana -- Safety assessment of food derived from genetically modified crops / Premendra D. Dwivedi, Mukul Das, Sandeep Kumar and Alok Kumar Verma -- Nanotechnology and detection of microbial pathogens / Rishi Shanker, Gulshan Singh, Anurag Jyoti, Premendra Dhar Dwivedi and Surinder Pal Singh -- Biotechnological exploitation of marine animals / Surajit Das -- Herbal medicine and biotechnology for the benefit of human health / Priyanka Srivastava, Mithilesh Singh, Gautami Devi and Rakhi Chaturvedi -- Perspectives on the human genome / Aruna Kumar and Kailash C. Upadhyaya -- Ethical issues in animal biotechnology / Abhik Gupta.