The Cell: A Molecular Approach

by Geoffrey M. Cooper, Robert E. Hausman

The Cell presents current comprehensive science in a readable and cohesive text that students can master in the course of one semester. This new edition retains the overall organization, themes, and special features of the fourth edition, including Key Experiment and Molecular Medicine essays, chapter sidebars that highlight areas of interest and clinical applications, and end-of-chapter questions with answers at the back of the book. However, the fifth edition has been updated throughout to reflect major advances in the field since the publication of the fourth edition in 2006, including:
- Advances in understanding gene regulation by microRNAs
- Histones and epigenetic inheritance
- Identification of human disease susceptibility genes by genome-wide associaton scans
- Protein import into mitochondria
- Induced pluripotent stem cells
- Role of autophagy in programmed cell death
- Genomic analysis of mutations in human cancers
- New Key Experiments: RNA Interference (Chapter 4) and G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Odor Detection (Chapter 15)

Genres: Science, Biology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Medicine, Education, Biography

820 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Geoffrey M. Cooper is an award-winning author of medical thrillers and a 2023 Maine Literary Award Finalist in Crime Fiction. His experience as a former cancer researcher and scientific administrator, having held positions at Harvard Medical School and Boston University as professor, department chair, and associate dean, now provides extensive background for his novels. He lives in Ogunquit, Maine.

Reviews

[sophia · Rating 3 out of 5]

i’m adding this to my goodreads BC I READ THIS FROM START TO FINISH

all 20 chapters. the glossary. the index. even the table of contents (probably over 20 times)

textbook was not too great, it’s full of text blocks and over complicated at times. like why would you explain the full experiment behind a discovery in the middle of the sentence, without first explaining what that discovery is. i don’t need to know that AKT was discovered in mice, just tell me the pathway first!!!

barely any mention of plant biology (0/10).


overall, very enjoyable. maybe one of the few books that are over 700 pages that i’ve been so engaged with. the book tapped into my unlocked potential. also probably permanently changed my brain chemistry (for good or for bad, i’ll never know)

molcell2 was one of the best courses! now i will read real books and pray for my grade 🙏🏻

[Rob · Rating 3 out of 5]

lots of good illustrations, both schematic drawings with lumpy blobs for all the proteins and also really cool micrographs. i also liked the "key experiment" pages.

but the organization was bass ackwards. they started with chemistry, then DNA, then larger structures, until finally the cell cycle. so YOU NEVER KNEW THE BIGGER PICTURE. again and again, they would sort of hint at the larger context and then say "this is discussed in chapter 11" or whatever. the authors made the fatal mistake of so many teachers - they know the subject inside out, so they teach it from the inside out. it makes sense to them that way because they already know all the stuff from later chapters. but the student doesn't.

plus, they wrote with no personality at all. not one joke, anecdote, exclamation, etc., in the entire book.

finally, it was pretty clear that sometimes they wrote two pages and the publisher said "turn this into half a page" and so it became an ultradense series of technical sentences without explanation.

ah, well, i learned a ton, though. most interesting factoid: you can cut out two thirds of a rat's liver and it will grow back as good as new in a few days. wow.

[Endi Tafani · Rating 2 out of 5]

Horrible ,

it’s full of info , looks great and all but after a paragraph or two you can’t continue reading , your brain begs you to stop and it shuts down automatically.

You can’t even use it to sleep , sleeping after reading this brings horrific nightmares.

[Deisy · Rating 4 out of 5]

like it or not, this is an important book for PostGrad student like me... *sigh*
Oh well, let's just take it as a light reading... *lol*

[Sofia Lavou · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book for cell biology.
Very illuminating and explanatory :)
It helped me a lot.

[Meghana Rastogi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for cell and molecular biology

[ROHIT TIWARI]

good book

[Melina Celeste · Rating 4 out of 5]

Parte de mí, odio leerte.

[Niv · Rating 5 out of 5]

best book for cell biology

[Terry Shackleford · Rating 2 out of 5]

I teach cell biology and wanted to try a new textbook with a better online platform for our students. I started out with a great attitude and wanted to love this book. I just got to where I hated it! It just had too many details and didn't do a good job breaking things down. The active learning exercises were stupid. I just didn't like it at all and my students liked it even less.

[Eddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mostly easy to understand and nicely written with informative pictures. But I kept wondering if the author just stopped repeating the same thing in different words how much shorter the chapters would be...

[Pablo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can´t compare it to other book because i studied all from this one, but it was a really nice read

[Nida · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't understand the hype about this book. Tge illustrations are beyond good but the text is inferior

[Prisha · Rating 4 out of 5]

i finished but at what cost

[aby l.s · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lean este antes que el Karp, es más terminología friendly 🙂‍↕️

[Petra Garic · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oduzelo mi je 6 tjedana mog zivota, ali sam dobila 5🔥

[robin]

No me lo he leído entero pero espero aprobar biología después de haber estado trabajándome los capítulos que caían 🙏

[ella · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thanks for RUINING MY LIFE already. Too detailed

[Aanchal · Rating 5 out of 5]

an excellent book

[Deegii · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is really helpful to increase my acknowledgement of basic science.