Biological Sciences

This volume provides a comprehensive description of the basic tenets of molecular biology, from mechanisms to its elaborate role in gene regulation. The initial sections cover the history of genetics and molecular biology. The book then goes on to highlight the significance of molecular approaches for all biological processes in both simple and complex cells.

In this provocative work, the historian Elof Carlson explores how new fields of the life sciences emerge.

The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. In Search of Cell History offers a comprehensive, impartial take on that research and the controversies that keep the field in turmoil.

Cell and molecular biology are becoming increasingly data driven. Technological advances and increased computing power mean that researchers now increasingly quantify experimental results, rather than simply report qualitative, representative observations. The Digital Cell provides a comprehensive guide for scientists seeking to make this transition.

How much energy is released in ATP hydrolysis? How many mRNAs are in a cell? How genetically similar are two random people? What is faster, transcription or translation? Cell Biology by the Numbers explores these questions and dozens of others providing a richly illustrated and handy reference for students and researchers.

Stem Cells: Promises and Reality will tell you everything you have always wanted to know about stem cells, but could not understand the field from elsewhere.

Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible.