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New edition of a text in which six researchers from leading institutions discuss what is known and what is yet to be understood in the field of cell biology. The material on molecular genetics has been revised and expanded so that it can be used as a stand-alone text. A new chapter covers pathogens, infection, and innate immunity. Topics include introduction to the cell, basic genetic mechanisms, methods, internal organization of the cell, and cells in their social context. The book contains color illustrations and charts; and the included CD-ROM contains dozens of video clips, animations, molecular structures, and high-resolution micrographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

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• Special Features(p. xv)
• List of Topics(p. xvii)
• Acknowledgments(p. xxxix)
• A Note to the Reader(p. xliii)
• Part I Introduction to the Cell
• 1. The Evolution of the Cell(p. 3)
• 2. Small Molecules, Energy, and Biosynthesis(p. 41)
• 3. Macromolecules: Structure, Shape, and Information(p. 89)
• 4. How Cells Are Studied(p. 139)
• Part II Molecular Genetics
• 5. Protein Function(p. 195)
• 6. Basic Genetic Mechanisms(p. 223)
• 7. Recombinant DNA Technology(p. 291)
• 8. The Cell Nucleus(p. 335)
• 9. Control of Gene Expression(p. 401)
• Part III Internal Organization of the Cell
• 10. Membrane Structure(p. 477)
• 11. Membrane Transport of Small Molecules and the Ionic Basis of Membrane Excitability(p. 507)
• 12. Intracellular Compartments and Protein Sorting(p. 551)
• 13. Vesicular Traffic in the Secretory and Endocytic Pathways(p. 599)
• 14. Energy Conversion: Mitochondria and Chloroplasts(p. 653)
• 15. Cell Signaling(p. 721)
• 16. The Cytoskeleton(p. 787)
• 17. The Cell-Division Cycle(p. 863)
• 18. The Mechanics of Cell Division(p. 911)
• Part IV Cells in Their Social Context
• 19. Cell Junctions, Cell Adhesion, and the Extracellular Matrix(p. 949)
• 20. Germ Cells and Fertilization(p. 1011)
• 21. Cellular Mechanisms of Development(p. 1037)
• 22. Differentiated Cells and the Maintenance of Tissues(p. 1139)
• 23. The Immune System(p. 1195)
• 24. Cancer(p. 1255)
• Glossary(p. 1)
• Index(p. 1)

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James Dewey Watson James D. Watson was born on April 6, 1928. Watson was an extremely industrious student and entered the University of Chicago when he was only 15. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology four years later, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in the same subject at Indiana University. He was performing research at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, when he first learned of the biomolecular research at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University in England. Watson joined Francis Crick in this work in 1951.

At the age of 25, he and colleague Crick discovered the structure of DNA, the double helix. Watson went on to become a Senior Research Fellow in Biology at the California Institute of Technology, before returning to Cambridge in 1955. The following year he moved to Harvard University, where he became Professor of Biology, a post he held until 1976. Watson and Crick won the 1962 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nuclear acids and its significance for information transfer in living material. In 1968, Watson published his account of the DNA discovery, "The Double Helix." The book became an international best-seller.

Watson became the Director and later President of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 1988 he served as Director of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health, a massive project to decipher the entire genetic code of the human species. Watson has received many awards and medals for his work, along with the Nobel Prize, he has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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