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By Lawrence E. Hunter
320 pp, $40
Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-2620-1305-5

JAMA. 2009;302(1):94.

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The advent of molecular biology began in the early 1930s as an amalgamation of various biological disciplines including microbiology, biochemistry, and genetics. Over the past half century, molecular biology has characterized the genes that dictate the processes of life and expanded the language of modern science. For the nonscientist, lack of understanding of this language precludes a working knowledge and appreciation of how molecular biology has revolutionized evolution, stem cell biology, molecular medicine, and disease pathogenesis.

In the book The Processes of Life: An Introduction to Molecular Biology, author Lawrence Hunter demystifies and debulks molecular biology's key principles and discoveries. This book, with its approachable writing style, serves as a primer to the linguistics and fundamentals of molecular biology. A modern Wittgenstein for the biological sciences, Hunter uses boldface type to emphasize common yet ambiguous terms and provide the reader with a clear understanding of molecular biology's vocabulary within . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Andrea L. Suárez, PhD, Reviewer; Robert P. Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH, Reviewer
Department of Dermatology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver
robert.dellavalle@ucdenver.edu

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