Molecular Cell Biology (Hardcover)

by Harvey Lodish (Author), Arnold Berk (Author), Lawrence Zipursky (Author), Paul Matsudaira (Author), David Baltimore (Author), James Darnell (Author)

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Product Description
The fourth edition of this text highlights the authors' continuing commitment to provide molecular cell biology topics, supported by the experiments and techniques that established them. Streamlined coverage, new pedagogy and a CD-ROM help to reinforce key concepts. The accompanying CD-ROM includes animations of key concepts and experiments and a navigation interface. There is also an on-line companion for students.

About the Author
HARVEY LODISH is Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. - ARNOLD BERK is a world-famous Virologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. - PAUL MATSUDAIRA is a Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Professor of Biology and Bioengineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Director of the WI/MIT BioImaging Center. - CHRIS A. KAISER is Professor of Biology and teaches genetics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - MONTY KRIEGER is the Thomas D. & Virginia W. Cabot Professor in the Department of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - MATTHEW P. SCOTT is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and teaches Developmental and Disease Mechanisms to medical students, and Developmental Biology to graduate students at Stanford University. - LAWRENCE ZIPURSKY is a Professor of Biological Chemistry and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. - JAMES DARNELL is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Vincent - Astor Professor and Head of the Molecular Cell Biology Laboratory, The Rockefeller University. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1184 pages
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman; 4th edition (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 071673706X
• ISBN-13: 978-0716737063
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #792,323 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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37 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book on Cell Biology at the Molecular Level!, July 8, 1999

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This review is from: Molecular Cell Biology (Hardcover)

An excellent textbook with a very clear writing style. Includes excellent diagrams and photographs to illustrate the text. The best of the lot. Personally, I would put this book well ahead of the similar book by Bruce Alberts et al., for its clarity and bredth of coverage.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Overwhelming Details, July 24, 2000

By	"rukmini" (Davis, CA United States) - See all my reviews

As a reference book, this book is handy to have. As a primary textbook for the classroom, this book is impossible. Each subsection of each chapter is overwhelmed with details of a process as it pertains to a variety of model systems. With the increasing amount of information on molecular biology available to us, it becomes vital that authors are able to extract key concepts, present them clearly, and then support them with detailed examples. The authors of this book instead have presented page after page of details, leaving the reader to wonder exactly what it was they were supposed to glean from the forgoing monolith. I found Albert's text to be far superior in readability and organization.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have!, May 6, 2000

By	Math PC (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This book is an essential tool for both students and professionals that need to broaden their knowledge in molecular cell biology. It provides the fundamental concepts and contains high quality illustrations/graphics. The CD-ROM is also a valuable tool that one can have as it contains basically the book itself.