Essential Cell Biology

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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. A selection of free books on a subject as important and enlightening as Cell Biology, is the gift that we want to give you today.

With the idea of allowing you to have easy and free access to this compendium of publications, we have chosen all of them in PDF format. 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). 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. Clare O’Connor is an Associate Professor in the Biology Department at Boston College. She teaches courses in cell biology and genetics. She has recently developed new lab classes that engage students in functional genomics research. Clare spends a lot of time thinking about how to use electronic learning resources to get students excited about science.

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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 Scientistand 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.In addition, we have included books in Spanish and Portuguese, so that you have the opportunity to read books on Cell Biology in these languages. Bruce Alberts received his PhD from Harvard University and is the Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education, University of California, San Francisco. He was the editor in chief of Sciencemagazine from 2008 until 2013, and for 12 years he served as president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1993–2005). x 10