Essential Cell Biology by Bruce Alberts

Essential Cell Biology Reviews

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  Karl Ahlsson

  Fantastiskt enkel att förstå med bra illustrationer kring allt vad en cell kan innehålla och mekanismer kring DNA-replikation, transkription, translation, celldelning mm. Ett bra fundament att stå på.
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  May

  I'm slightly conflicted as to what to say about this book? I'll start with the positives though.
  Firstly, it's a great book with a lot of information and it's extremely easy to understand. It doesn't need anyone with any background knowledge to any of the subjects though basic scientific knowledge is preferred or else you will spend some extra time going through everything so you can comprehend it. It was recommended by my university course as the primary source book for the Cell Biology course. A+ for the diagrams and illustrations.
  Okay, here is where I only give it the 4 starts instead of 5 (a 4.5 would be more fair to be honest, but this is why I don't like giving specific ratings...). There is a lot of missing information that can be essential depending on your course material. It does not cover everything in general. There is always something here or there that can be important and you don't understand the second paragraph because there is no further explanation nor can you look it up in the glossary. You end up having a certain idea but cannot grasp it fully because you weren't able to. My issue with that is, despite that you can look it up on the internet, you did not get the book to use another source to retrieve such information. Because it already has so much in-depth details about non-essentials, so why not use some of the energy on that on other things? Maybe the differences can be in the editions, or maybe it simply comes down to subjective impressions of the authors of the book. I will still recommend the book though. It does something, a lot of other educational books cannot do.
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  Бисера Стојановиќ

  An extensive read that starts from the basics and goes into some more in depth information. You can get a solid foundation to pass your exam in cell biology. I would reccommend it to anyone who is interested in learning how cells function.
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  Jake

  I recommend watching
  these alongside the book which 1:1 covers the same topics.
  
  Also, recommend staying at about a chapter/day. I took this class a decade ago and failed it, much more fun now even without the chemistry (may or may not be needed?).
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  Albert

  paradoxically, cell dynamics are more complex than organism dynamics. this is a really good introduction to the not-so-rigid building blocks of life.
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  Luna Oliveira

  Great book but there's a lot more complexity to cell biology that I didn't finding this...
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  Harry Harman

  In all living cells, genetic information flows from DNA to RNA (transcription) and from RNA to protein (translation). together these processes are known as gene expression.
  
  If cells are the fundamental unit of living matter, then nothing less than a cell can truly be called living. Viruses, for example, are compact packages of genetic information—in the form of DNA or RNA—usually encased in protein, but they have no ability to reproduce themselves by their own efforts. Instead, they get themselves copied by parasitizing the reproductive machinery of the cells that they invade. Thus, viruses are chemical zombies
  
  The transmission electron microscope (TEM) is in principle similar to a light microscope, but it uses a beam of electrons instead of a beam of light, and magnetic coils to focus the beam instead of glass lenses. The TEM has a useful magnification of up to a million-fold and with biological specimens can resolve details as small as about 2 nm.
  
  Organisms whose cells have a nucleus are called eucaryotes
  
  Organisms whose cells do not have a nucleus are called procaryotes
  
  a procaryotic cell can duplicate itself in as little as 20 minutes. In 11 hours, by repeated divisions, a single procaryote can give rise to more than 8 billion progeny (which exceeds the total number of humans presently on Earth) Thanks to their large numbers, rapid growth rates, and ability to exchange bits of genetic material by a process akin to sex, populations of procaryotic cells can evolve fast, rapidly acquiring the ability to use a new food source or to resist being killed by a new antibiotic.
  
  Chromosomes become visible when a cell is about to divide.
  
  we understand the workings of E. coli more thoroughly than those of any other living organism.
  
  Your next-door neighbor has our next-door neighbor has donated $100 in support of cancer donated $100 in support of cancer research and is horrified to learn research and is horrified to learn that her money is being spent on your next-door neighbor has donated $100 in support of cancer research and is horrified to learn that her money is being spent on studying brewer’s yeast. how could you put her mind at ease?
  
  Caenorhabditis elegans was the first multicellular organism to have its complete genome sequenced.
  
  A mole will contain 6 x 10^23 molecules of the substance. 1 mole of carbon weighs 12 g.
  
  The mass of an atom or a molecule is generally specified in daltons, one dalton being an atomic mass unit approximately equal to the mass of a hydrogen atom.
  
  An individual carbon atom is roughly 0.2 nm in diameter, so that it would take about 5 million of them, laid out in a straight line, to span a millimeter.
  
  (6 x 10^23, called Avogadro’s number) is the key scale factor describing the relationship between everyday quantities and numbers of individual atoms
  
  Living organisms, however, are made of only a small selection of these elements, four of which—carbon (C), hydrogen (H), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O)—make up 96.5% of an organism’s weight.
  
  Bond strength is measured by the amount of energy that must be supplied to break a bond, usually expressed in units of either kilocalories per mole (kcal/mole) or kilojoules per mole (kJ/mole).
  
  Acids are characterized as being strong or weak, depending on how readily they give up their protons to water. Strong acids, such as hydrochloric acid (HCl), lose their protons quickly.
  
  Weak chemical bonds have less than 1/20 the strength of a strong covalent bond.
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  Pranjal Singh

  This in one of those EXCELLENT textbooks which are so well written that someone outside the biology discipline can read and come in very close terms with undergraduate level cell biology. Of course, it is meant to be a textbook for a semester long undergraduate/graduate course. However, if you didn't have the chance to take such a course, this book will help you get all that knowledge without the need of an instructor. The only downside will be the course assignments and project - which help get some hands-on experience with the concepts and techniques.
  
  Since it is so easy to read (although be advised that it is VERY massive book so it will take about a month at ~1 chapter/day), I recommend it to anyone fascinated by the beauty in the details of biological systems.
  
  Full chapter-wise review can be found
  here.
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  Theo

  I recently read Essential Cell Biology and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the field. The book is written in a very clear and concise manner that is not overly technical like most medical books. It contains great examples of medical cases that help to bring the material to life. The visuals of the cell activities are also well done and help to explain the concepts in an easy to understand way. Overall, I think Essential Cell Biology is a great book for anyone interested in the field and I would definitely recommend it!
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  Lwena

  It really helped me on my cell biology studies. The images and graphics are very clear and simple supporting very well the text facilitating and easing the learning.
  
  I really recommend it if your studding biology.
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  árion

  Li na 4ª edição da Artmed. Mais aprofundado, melhores ilustrações e cobre uma gama maior de conteúdos do que o livro de De Robertis e o de Carneiro & Junqueira. Pode pecar um pouco na didática, em alguns capítulos, para os que não são iniciados em biologia molecular.
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  The Lone Wolf Christian

  Textbooks — bleh
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  M.A (maianh)

  oh god finally done ✅
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  Jannik Faierson

  for the stats - College Textbook: Molecular Cell Biology
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  Donia

  Bättre än den där jävla Campbell 🥹🫶🏼
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  Oren Mizrahi

  great read!!!
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  Bizhan Hejazi

  The book gives you a general outline of what cellular-molecular biology is. Illustrations are clear and simple. After studying the book you'll find out how a cell works on the whole. For further studies you may take a look at Lodish cellular-molecular Biology.
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  ♥Xeni♥

  I forgot to mark this book as read last month. Had a 16-question test on the WHOLE book, plus extra details which weren't in the book, and I barely passed... lol.
  
  Still, its a pretty decent book. Thank goodness I only had to review for the test... still, I would have much preferred having less details to know... mainly because who really cares which components make up desmosomes and hemidesmosomes?? Okay okay, that's silly to ask, since it is important, but the test was silly and the book is ENORMOUS. Like elephant size!
  
  Still, now I suppose I can sell this copy seeing as how I probably wont ever need it again...
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  Jorge

  On of the best books for the study of the cell, with emphasis in molecular aspects.
  The authors did a great job here, trying to summarise the amazing book "The Molecular Biology of the Cell" of he same authors. Then, this book is a prelude: an introduction, or some kind of preparation for the masterpiece mentioned.
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  Josiah Richardson

  Very well-written book on the ends and outs of Molecular Biology. Definitely not for a beginner or a book for someone looking to get into this field, although the graphs and pictures are so well annotated that someone who is decently informed in this field of study could understand them. Fascinating material.