Molecular Cell Biology

This book explains and keeps almost up to date with new advances in the biology world. Pictures and diagrams help in the understanding of concepts. Also you may go online to the site and watch videos and get extra information. This book came quickly but because it was a rainy day the delivery truck got the package wet and it soaked the book and had lots of water damage. It wasn't the fault of the sender and luckily after letting it sit out it dried to near perfect condition. Great buy!

Very fast delivery, ahead of schedule. The book condition is good

The authors did a good job correctly pulling together modern information. The information is accurate and drawn from literature. Unlike some textbooks I have used recently, they were no factual errors. The illustrations are good. But, this book fell short on editing. The chapters are not very well organized; information that should be together is scattered throughout a chapter. Also, the language used is unnecessarily difficult at times. Finally, the paragraph organization is poor so you have to read and re-read to get the main points.I would have liked to see better organization and editing. Overall, it is good info but very hard to read and extract what you came for.But I would buy it again.

For a biology book, this gets 5 stars. Needless to say, biology is not everyone's favorite subject, but if you're going to go through it, you need something a good book. This book has plenty of pictures to help all the abstract concepts that a course in cell and molecular biology would go through. There is one important note, this book almost completely shuns botany. I say good riddance!

This text goes into the right amount of detail necessary for a college course. The diagrams are well labeled and easy to understand, most of the time even without reading the accompanying literature that is within the text. The questions at the end of the chapter focus on major parts of each one. Also, each chapter has small sections dedicated to medical examples when relevant, which is a plus for premedical students.

Although I don't claim to be a molecular biologist, nor have I read beyond chapter 5 of Lodish's "Molecular and Cell Biology", this textbook feels admirably thorough in its treatment of its subject, bringing the reader up to date on a wide range of the detail generated in the field over the past few decades.The book's authors, furthermore, have addressed the learning needs of their readership; once it moves into its substantive chapters, virtually all points are made simultaneously with textbook prose and colorful, graphic illustrations which are well drawn and accompanied by excellent captions. This aspect of the book is its great strength.There is a far more serious problem with the book, however, which explains the middling rating I have given it. Like many such textbooks, it is committee-written, which is not a problem when such books are given proper shape by a sharp editor. But the book lacks that editor and as a result dwells on the most trivial developments in its field with exactly the same weight as its bedrock components to a fault. In aiming to be comprehensive, it drowns the reader in a sea of obnoxious detail that begs the book and its authors not to be taken seriously. The book may have been conceived as a reference, but I fear that it will always be assigned chapter rather than passage at a time, as is customary in graduate school courses.The corollary to this situation is that the first several chapters of the book describe a host of laboratory processes, each in enormous detail and overall in serial fashion, without adequately describing the use and purpose for each. The book then explains that each process will be taken up in a later chapter in conjunction with an exploration of the field in which it is mainly used. This is all fine, but does the reader really need to be held accountable for a description of these processes twice, particularly when they are presented so haphazardly initially? At least in the first five chapters, rote memorization is the only learning strategy possible for the vast majority of the material. And while there is nothing wrong with rote memorization, the unconnectedness of the material, combined with its sprawling volume, make these initial chapters virtually useless as learning tools.I recommend this book, therefore, with a strict reservation: it should only be used by a teacher so familiar with it that he can assign "primary", "secondary", and perhaps even "tertiary" passages from it at a time, in order to help the reader build an understanding of molecular biology systematically and rationally structure his study time.

This book was really good to use for an undergraduate or graduate class. It was mainly used as a reference for me in medical biochemistry, but it goes into a lot of detail, which I liked. i would definitely purchase it just to have as a reference book and a place with information that's important for molecular cell biologists.

This book was required for a college course which is why I bought it. It is a very good text book and of course what it provides for you is based on how it is used! These books are always updating though so just make sure you are getting the edition required by your course.