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- Includes over 100 rich illustrations
- Offers a brief general view of modern biology
- Includes a chapter on cancer, covering cancer-critical genes and cancer cures
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Accessible and comprehensive, this book describes the universal cellular nature of living organisms and is an indispensable tool for anyone in the sciences who wishes to get a quick overview of molecular biology. Individual chapters cover nucleic acids and proteins, genetic code and protein synthesis, the fidelity of transferring genetic information to the next generations, and the regulation of various processes inside the cells. Special attention is paid to new areas rising from modern DNA sequencing technologies which transform biology. The book also touches on developing areas, such as cures for cancer and CRISPR, which are important for medicine and the future of humankind.
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alexander Vologodskii graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Soviet Union, in 1972. Since then and till 1992 he worked in the Biophysical Laboratory at the Institute of Molecular Genetics, in Moscow. He received a Ph.D. in biophysics in 1975 and the highest Russian scientific degree, Doctor of Science, in 1985. In 1992 he relocated to the United States, where he was a visiting scientist at UC Berkeley for three years. From 1995 to 2011 he was the head of the research laboratory at New York University. He published about 120 papers and two monographs. Vologodskii works now as a freelance science writer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Basics of Molecular Biology
Authors: Alexander Vologodskii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19404-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19403-0Published: 09 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19404-7Published: 08 December 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 184
Topics: Biochemistry, general, Cell Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Virology, Cancer Research, Enzymology