The Cell: A Molecular Approach, Fifth Edition

By Robert E. Hausman and Geoffrey M. Cooper

Book Overview

The Cell presents current comprehensive science in a readable and cohesive text that students can master in the course of one semester. This new edition retains the overall organization, themes, and special features of the fourth edition, including Key Experiment and Molecular Medicine essays, chapter sidebars that highlight areas of interest and clinical applications, and end-of-chapter questions with answers at the back of the book. However, the fifth edition has been updated throughout to reflect major advances in the field since the publication of the fourth edition in 2006, including: - Advances in understanding gene regulation by microRNAs- Histones and epigenetic inheritance- Identification of human disease susceptibility genes by genome-wide associaton scans- Protein import into mitochondria- Induced pluripotent stem cells- Role of autophagy in programmed cell death- Genomic analysis of mutations in human cancers- New Key Experiments: RNA Interference (Chapter 4) and G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Odor Detection (Chapter 15)

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087893300X
• ISBN13: 9780878933006
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press
• Length: 820 Pages
• Weight: 5.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Very good condition

The book was in very good condition and was received in a timely fashion.

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The cooper cell

This book contained very usefull text information especially for whom undertaking cell biology. It as also recommended by Lecturers in Victoria University of Technology, in Australia. It provides excellent details of cell functions and related items in both the general view and the molecular view. The older version is also a very good source, but I think it is a bit out dated. I would recommend this text to whom is studying cell biology.

New! Second Edition of Cooper text is available!

The field of cell biology is so vast and changing so rapidly that teaching it can be a daunting prospect. The First Edition of The Cell: A Molecular Approach, published in 1997, offered the perfect solution for teachers and their students--current, comprehensive science combined with the readability and cohesiveness of a single-authored text. Designed for one-semester introductory cell biology courses, this book enabled students to master the material in the entire book, not simply to sample a small fraction from a much larger text. The new Second Edition of The Cell retains the organization, themes, and special features of the original, but it has been completely updated in major areas of scientific progress, including: genome analysis; chromatin and transcription; nuclear transport; protein sorting and trafficking; signal transduction; the cell cycle; and programmed cell death.The new Second Edition was published June 16, 2000.

Excellent introductory book

I am an engineer by training and I am interested in appling biological principles to solving engineering problems (I am also the author of a book entitled Intelligent Systems for Engineering: A Knowledge-based Approach). Prof. Cooper's book is an amazingly well written book. Anyone can easily understand the concepts presented. My only advice to the author is to make the CD-ROM more interactive and if possible add narration. Congratuations on writing such an excellent book.