Molecular Cell Biology

I agree with an earlier reviewer that the book is a good reference and the overwhelming details contained in it make it difficult to get the basic fundamentals. The authors need to trim it down and focus more on fundamental principles. I feel at times the book is somewhat convoluted and hard to follow. This is sometimes the case with books that have multiple authors.

Another reviewer pointed out the over abundance of yeast molecular biology contained in he book. I again agree with this person. I realize yeast is where we learned a lot about eukaryotic molecular biology. But I wish the book focused less on yeast and more mammalian cell biology. People using this book are likely to be looking at careers in biomedical research or medicine. I think more mammalian biology would be more beneficial.

Why do all these textbooks have to have a CD to run the price of the book up ?

an extraordinarily boring description of an interesting field of science. often cursory to the point of idiocy at other times ridiculously dwelling on details of yeast genetics. the authors were obviously uninterested or unable to put the facts of recent research into perspective. the cd is a nice, though completely useless, gimmick. the figures are good, sadly their legends are beyond criticism.

As you can imagine, no text book is a must read, but it certainly is a must own for any student of cell biology or biological scientists, from undergraduate, graduate, medical student, to the graduated faculty member. A useful text with great figures and an excellent accompanying CD.

This thousand page-plus work provides a comprehensive, but easy to follow review of molecular cell biology. Illustrations are excellent. The book starts with the basics of molecular biology - proteins, nucleic acids, genetic code, etc. It then considers nuclear functions in detail -replication, transcription and gene regulation in development. The book then considers cytoplasmic functions in detail - cell membranes, cell energy production and utilization, microfilaments, microtubules, multicellularity and control of the eukaryotic cell cycle.

I am very much happy to have this book. Most of praising sentences being shared with preceding commentators, here I'd like to add one more. The CD is really wonderful! It's well edited and organized. Beautiful pictures and movies must be an ideal tool to learn newest knowledges those are day by day going complicated. To understand something unknown topics in the cellular biology, I assure watching CD will be much time-saving. After you have learnt a basic concept on some topic by using CD, you can learn more details by the book, if necessary. I think CD is not merely an "attachment", but the book and CD should be complementary for the best learning.