Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Molecular Biology eBooks

If you like Molecular Biology eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 2807 Results
Skip side bar filters
  • The Black Box of Biology

    A History of the Molecular Revolution

    Translated by Matthew Cobb ...
    In this masterful account, a historian of science surveys the molecular biology revolution, its origin and continuing impact.Since the 1930s, a molecular vision has been transforming biology. Michel Morange provides an incisive and overarching history of this transformation, from the early attempts to explain organisms by the structure of their chemical components, to the birth and consolidation ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Biology of Death

    How Dying Shapes Cells, Organisms, and Populations

    How does death help us understand the living? Death is more than the last event of life; it is interwoven into our growth, development, protection against disease, and more. It influences the direction of entire species via the cycle of a lifespan, and it involves asking many fascinating questions. How do we differentiate between life and death, though? How do we know when a person, animal, or ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Spark

    The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life

    A fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on EarthWhen we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices—or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy sky. But electricity is more than an external source of power, heat, or illumination. Life at its essence is nothing if not electrical ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Summary & Study Guide - A Crack in Creation

    Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

    by Lee Tang ...
    Series Book 12 - Summary & Study Guide
    Power and Peril of Gene EditingCRISPR/Cas9 TechnologyThis book is asummary of “A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution” by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg.This book tells the story of CRISPR and “gene-editing.” CRISPR is a cutting-edge gene-editing technology that mimics what happens naturally in bacteria. It enables scientists to “play god” with ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wetware

    A Computer in Every Living Cell

    by Dennis Bray ...
    “A beautifully written journey into the mechanics of the world of the cell, and even beyond, exploring the analogy with computers in a surprising way” (Denis Noble, author of Dance to the Tune of Life).How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Brain

    Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs

    “An engaging and complex examination of the development of the human brain throughout its evolutionary history” (Publishers Weekly).After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes them so.In this delightfully accessible ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Language of Life

    DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine

    “His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease.” —Barack ObamaFrom Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 15-year head of the Human Genome Project, comes one of the most important medical books of the year: The Language of Life. With accessible, insightful prose, Dr. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Epigenetics Revolution

    How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance

    by Nessa Carey ...
    Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of the field while also highlighting its latest findings and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells

    by Lewis Wolpert ...
    Acclaimed biologist Lewis Wolpert eloquently narrates the basics of human life through the lens of its smallest component: the cell.Everything about our existence— imagination and reproduction, birth and death—is governed by our cells. They are the basis of all life in the universe, from the tiniest of bacteria to the most complex of animals. Genes in developing embryos determine the makeup of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Brain: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind. Chapters tackle subjects ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Strange Glow

    The Story of Radiation

    The fascinating science and history of radiationMore than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety of nuclear power plants. But how much do we really know about ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Texto ilustrado e interactivo de biología molecular e ingeniería genética

    Conceptos, técnicas y aplicaciones en ciencias de la salud

    Obra con un planteamiento muy novedoso, escrita con el objetivo de responder a las necesidades reales del alumno. Es lo que se conoce como "libro dialogante", que estimula al estudiante e invita a la reflexión.El doctor Herráez, Profesor Titular del Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular de la Universidad de Alcalá, continúa en la presente edición con la filosofía de recoger, de forma ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Essential Bioinformatics

    by Jin Xiong ...
    Essential Bioinformatics is a concise yet comprehensive textbook of bioinformatics, which provides a broad introduction to the entire field. Written specifically for a life science audience, the basics of bioinformatics are explained, followed by discussions of the state-of-the-art computational tools available to solve biological research problems. All key areas of bioinformatics are covered ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Extended Heredity

    A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution

    How genes are not the only basis of heredity—and what this means for evolution, human life, and diseaseFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. In Extended Heredity, leading evolutionary biologists Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day challenge this ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy

    From Genetics to Clinical Management

    This open access book presents a comprehensive overview of dilated cardiomyopathy, providing readers with practical guidelines for its clinical management. The first part of the book analyzes in detail the disease’s pathophysiology, its diagnostic work up as well as the prognostic stratification, and illustrates the role of genetics and gene-environment interaction. The second part presents ... Read more

    Free

  • Death: Before, During and After - Gnani Purush Dadashri

    by Shuddha Anami ...
    Every one has a great fear of death. Death makes people melancholy and they sink into misery. Everyone has to witness death some point in time during his or her life. At such a time hundreds of questions regarding the true nature of death may arise in a person’s mind. When he does not find any answers, he becomes perplexed. People have an ardent desire to discover the mystery surrounding death. A ... Read more

    Free

  • A Mousetrap for Darwin

    In 1996 Darwin's Black Box thrust Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe into the national spotlight. The book, and his subsequent two, sparked a firestorm of criticism, and his responses appeared in everything from the New York Times to science blogs and the journal Science. His replies, along with a handful of brand-new essays, are now collected in A Mousetrap for Darwin. In engaging his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bioinformatics for Biologists

    Edited by Pavel Pevzner, Ron Shamir ...
    The computational education of biologists is changing to prepare students for facing the complex datasets of today's life science research. In this concise textbook, the authors' fresh pedagogical approaches lead biology students from first principles towards computational thinking. A team of renowned bioinformaticians take innovative routes to introduce computational ideas in the context of real ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation

    How the brain helps us to understand and navigate space—and why, sometimes, it doesn’t work the way it should.Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have—older than language. In Dark and Magical Places, Christopher Kemp embarks on a journey to discover the remarkable extent of what our minds ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • One Plus One Equals One

    Symbiosis and the evolution of complex life

    We are in the midst of a revolution. It is a scientific revolution built upon the tools of molecular biology, with which we probe and prod the living world in ways unimaginable a few decades ago. Need to track a bacterium at the root of a hospital outbreak? No problem: the offending germ's complete genetic profile can be obtained in 24 hours. We insert human DNA into E. coli bacteria to produce ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Bioinformatics for Beginners

    Genes, Genomes, Molecular Evolution, Databases and Analytical Tools

    Bioinformatics for Beginners: Genes, Genomes, Molecular Evolution, Databases and Analytical Tools provides a coherent and friendly treatment of bioinformatics for any student or scientist within biology who has not routinely performed bioinformatic analysis.The book discusses the relevant principles needed to understand the theoretical underpinnings of bioinformatic analysis and demonstrates, with ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Zika: The Emerging Epidemic

    A gripping narrative about the origins and spread of the Zika virus by New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.Until recently, Zika—once considered a mild disease—was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August 2015, doctors in northeast Brazil began to notice a trend: many mothers who had recently experienced symptoms of the Zika virus were giving birth to babies with ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Machinery of Life

    Imagine that we had some way to look directly at the molecules in a living organism. An x-ray microscope would do the trick, or since we’re dreaming, perhaps an Asimov-style nanosubmarine (unfortunately, neither is currently feasible). Think of the wonders we could witness firsthand: antibodies atta- ing a virus, electrical signals racing down nerve fibers, proteins building new strands of DNA. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD $31.99 USD

  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cardiovascular Diseases (ICCvD 2021)

    Series Book 52 - Advances in Health Sciences Research
    This is an open access book.The objectives of the conference are as follows.to update knowledge about the relevant program priorities for addressing CVD burden in developing countriesto explore options for the comprehensive management of primary cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, high blood glucose level, smoking, and sedentary lifestyleto discuss the latest guidance and ... Read more

    Free