Essential Cell Biology

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Alexander Johnson received his PhD from Harvard University and is a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Karen Hopkin received her PhD in biochemistry from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is a science writer in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is a regular columnist for The Scientist and a contributor to Scientific American‘s daily podcast, “60-Second Science.”

David Morgan received his PhD from the University of California, San Francisco, and is a professor in the Department of Physiology as well as the vice dean for research for the School of Medicine. Dave is a fellow of the Royal Society of London. Cell Biology lies at the intersection of molecular biology, biochemistry, and structural biology. It is a large field and there are many excellent books written on specialized topics within cell biology. The reason I’m writing this review is because I believe that the 5th edition of Essential Cell Biology is the premier text to learn cellular/molecular biology as an undergrad or med student. Keith Roberts received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and was Deputy Director of the John Innes Centre, Norwich. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia. In addition, they provide a greatly expanded Question Bank, several new student assessment tools, as well as more than 130 narrated videos to guide reader as they progress through the chapters.In all living cells, genetic information flows from DNA to RNA (transcription) and from RNA to protein (translation). together these processes are known as gene expression. The mass of an atom or a molecule is generally specified in daltons, one dalton being an atomic mass unit approximately equal to the mass of a hydrogen atom. An individual carbon atom is roughly 0.2 nm in diameter, so that it would take about 5 million of them, laid out in a straight line, to span a millimeter.

This text features lively, clear writing and exceptional illustrations, making it the ideal textbook for a first course in both cell and molecular biology. Thoroughly revised and updated, the Fifth Edition maintains its focus on the latest cell biology research. For the first time ever, Essential Cell Biology will come with access to Smartwork5, Norton’s innovative online homework platform, creating a more complete learning experience.

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x 10 Julian Lewis received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and is an Emeritus Scientist at the London Research Institute of Cancer Research UK. Bruce Alberts received his PhD from Harvard University and is Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the editor-in-chief of Science magazine. For 12 years he served as President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1993-2005). Jennifer Fairman is the Founder and Principal of Fairman Studios, LLC. She also holds a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Jennifer enjoys translating science into images that people can easily understand.

The transmission electron microscope (TEM) is in principle similar to a light microscope, but it uses a beam of electrons instead of a beam of light, and magnetic coils to focus the beam instead of glass lenses. The TEM has a useful magnification of up to a million-fold and with biological specimens can resolve details as small as about 2 nm. Jill U. Adams is a scientist-turned-science-writer who writes about health, medicine, and scientific research for scientists and lay audiences alike. She got hooked on cell biology well after graduate school, through reading Lewis Thomas and writing about cellular processes such as autophagy, the cell's ultimate form of recycling. This blog is written for readers who missed out on the textbook version of “Essential Cell Biology,” a freshman level biology course by Bruce Alberts, a world-renowned cell biologist and former president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. This book is not meant to replace the textbook but rather serves as an additional resource for students who wish to understand the important principles of cell biology at a deeper level. Karen Hopkin received her PhD in biochemistry from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is a science writer in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is a regular columnist for The Scientist and a contributor to Scientific American's daily podcast, "60-Second Science." The concept of Cell Biology is more or less modern, and is defined as the study of the life of cells. The origin of this discipline is to be found in two different disciplines: histology and cytology.Martin Raff received his MD from McGill University and is at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and Cell Biology Unit at University College London.