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Search Ebook here:. Book Preface In writing the eighth edition of Molecular Cell Biology, we have incorporated many of the spectacular advances made over the past four years in biomedical science, driven in part by new experimental technologies that have revolutionized many fields.

Biological systems, of course, follow the rules of chemistry and physics, but biology is a historical science, as the forms and structures of the living world today are the results of billions of years of evolution.

Through evolution, all organisms are related in a family tree extending from primitive single-celled organisms that lived in the distant past to the diverse plants, animals, and microorganisms of the present era. The great insight of Charles Darwin Figure was the principle of natural selection: organisms vary randomly and compete within their environment for resources.

Only those that survive and reproduce are able to pass down their genetic traits. The Molecules of Life 1. While genomics and proteomics dominate the headlines, cell biology has quietly emerged as perhaps the avant garde subcellular biology in the last decade. None of the cell biology textbooks discussed below really convey the bold new direction in which cell biology has embarked.

These larger texts also come with more ancillary materials, especially Molecular Biology of the Cell. Molecular Cell Biology, in its fourth edition, at pages is nearly pages shorter than its predecessor. Molecular Cell Biology stands out as a text directed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. In contrast, the other texts can easily serve as introductory texts for a much broader range of undergraduates. So, which text does one use to teach cell biology?

This depends on how one intends to use a textbook. Hence, if one relies on the text to serve as a major teaching tool in developing understanding, then the texts by Becker et al. Of these two texts, Molecular Biology of the Cell Alberts et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell provides review references as superscripts to each subheading; whereas, Molecular Cell Biology places the citation of review references at the end of each chapter.

Citations in both books focus largely on review articles. One requirement of a resource text is an exhaustive index, and both texts have satisfying indices. Many of these are quite good, and useful to students. The end of the chapter also includes more traditional review questions, as does the student companion volume discussed below.

These sections are marked by icons, and are generally quite short. I wish that these sections were a bit more elaborate, similar to what is found in the Becker, Cooper, and Karp texts, wherein key citations of the literature are included and discussed.

Here, students are directed to answer important biological questions as they read a small collection of primary research papers. To give one example, the authors ignore important work in the integration of the three major cytoskeletal systems in generating and maintaining cell structure, force-generation, and cell signaling in the appropriate chapters.

This emerging synthesis is already generating bold new perspectives into the nature of cell signaling, cell movement, and metabolic regulation. In any case, I expected a bolder, far-reaching approach from such prominent scientists. Molecular Cell Biology has several key ancillary materials. The CD-ROM is nice and has a unique feature in the presentation of classic experiments; unfortunately, only eleven are presented.

I think more robust animations of processes such as the formation of transcriptional initiation complexes, cell signaling, and cytoskeletal dynamics are now possible and should be what one encounters in these supplements. Further, I think it is time to see more interactive self-testing and problem solving in these supplements.

They are nicely done and informative; however, they are hardly what I would call a genuine tutorial, in the sense that the students are guided through a set of exercises to develop a concept. The inclusion of even more electronic versions of key and classic papers would make this CD-ROM an invaluable resource to students and instructors, provided copyright issues can be handled economically.