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Cell Biology: An Illustrated Text

Cell Biology: An Illustrated Text

by WilliamC.EarnshawPollard (Author)

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    Hardcover 2002

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Synopsis

Offering you more of what you need, less of what you don't! . Written by leading personalities in the field . Focusing on the structure and function of the cell, this radically new approach to cell biology offers a comprehensive, full-color look at the subject and the latest developments in the field. It emphasises specific macromolecular interactions and their relation to cellular structure and function, and covers such areas as chemical building blocks, assembly, major organelles and components of the cell, cell cycle, cellular regulation, gene expression, viruses, energy interconversions, and more.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 805
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Saunders
Published: 05 Jun 2002
ISBN 10: 0721639976
ISBN 13: 9780721639970

Author Bio
Thomas Dean Pollard is a prominent educator, cell biologist and biophysicist whose research focuses on understanding cell motility through the study of actin filaments and myosin motors. He is Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and a Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry at Yale University. He was Dean of Yale's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2010 to 2014, and President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies from 1996 to 2001. Pollard is very active in promoting scientific education and research primarily through two major societies, both of which he is a past President: the American Society for Cell Biology and the Biophysical Society William Charles Earnshaw is Professor of Chromosome Dynamics at the University of Edinburgh where he has been a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow since 1996. Earnshaw is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society since 2013 for his studies of mitotic chromosome structure and segregation. Before Edinburgh, he was Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.