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Molecular Biology of the Cell

Name: Molecular Biology of the Cell
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Author: Bruce Alberts
ISBN: 9780815344322

Bruce Alberts · 2002 · 1464 pages

"As the amount of information in biology expands dramatically, it becomes increasingly important for textbooks to distill the vast amount of scientific knowledge into concise principles and enduring concepts. As with previous editions, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Sixth Edition accomplishes this goal with clear writing and beautiful illustrations. The Sixth Edition has been extensively revised and updated with the latest research in the field of cell biology, and it provides an exceptional framework for teaching and learning. The entire illustration program has been greatly enhanced. Protein structures better illustrate structure-function relationships, icons are simpler and more consistent within and between chapters, and micrographs have been refreshed and updated with newer, clearer, or better images. As a new feature, each chapter now contains intriguing open-ended questions highlighting "What We Don't Know," introducing students to challenging areas of future research. Updated end-of-chapter problems reflect new research discussed in the text. Thought-provoking end-of-chapter questions have been expanded to all chapters, including questions on developmental biology, tissues and stem cells, the immune system, and pathogens"--Provided by publisher.

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Andrej Karpathy
“I like to reach for textbooks sometimes. I feel like books are for too much of a general consumption sometimes and they're too high up in the level of abstraction and it's not good enough. So I like textbooks, I like "The Cell". I think "The Cell" was pretty cool. [...] And then I'm also suspicious of textbooks honestly because as an example in deep-learning there's no amazing textbooks and the field is changing very quickly. I imagine the same is true in say synthetic biology and so on, these books like "The Cell" are kind of outdated. They're still high-level, like what is the actual real source of truth? It's people in wet labs working with cells. Sequencing genomes and, yeah, actually working with it. And I don't have that much exposure to that or what that looks like. So I still don't fully, I'm reading through the cell and it's kind of interesting, and I'm learning but it's still not sufficient I would say in terms of understanding.”↗
Alan Kay
“For many years it has been the best single volume narrative of 'life from scratch'.”↗
Sam Altman
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