The Cell: A Molecular Approach is an ideal resource for undergraduate students in a one-semester introduction to cell biology.

Cell biology instructors face the challenge of cultivating both the foundational knowledge and analytical skills that students need for their entry into an increasingly complex field.

The Cell: A Molecular Approach endeavors to address those issues with succinct writing, incorporation of current research, a test bank that encourages critical thinking, and an active learning framework. The text presents fundamental concepts and current research, including chapters on Genomics and Transcriptional Regulation and Epigenetics, and new in-text boxed features on Molecular Medicine and Key Experiments.

The Cell: A Molecular Approach is available with Oxford Insight. Oxford Insight pairs best-in-class OUP content with curated media resources, activities, and gradable assessment, in a guided learning environment that delivers performance analytics, drives student engagement, and improves student outcomes.

The eBook offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: Find the eBook on VitalSource.

New to this Edition

• Animations and Videos, accompanied by assignable quizzes. Videos: Information and engaging videos help students understand complex cellular and molecular structures and processes. And Animations: Narrated animations of key concepts and processes. These are available with Oxford Insight.
• Self-Study and Personalized Practice: These are: Chapter Overviews; Micrographs--which illustrate cellular structure and are accompanied by practice assessments for student self-study; additional Data Analysis Problems, Self-Assessment quizzes, Flashcards, and Suggested Reading and Web Links. These are available with Oxford Insight.
• Assessment: Chapter Quizzes: Multiple-choice quizzes test comprehension of each chapter's key material. Assignable by instructors with Oxford Insight.
• Fills in the gaps where molecular explanations were less apparent or have changed
• Sixteen new Interactive Data Analysis problems, at the end of each chapter, present data from original research papers and ask students to analyze experimental methods and results. These help students integrate the product of science with the practice of science. Available with Oxford Insight.
• Expedited discussion of the flow of genetic information to allow students to develop a stronger foundational knowledge of the concepts before applying them in the context of methodologies in later chapters
• New coauthor Kenneth Adams has contributed to the improved organization and Data Analysis problems
• Incorporates recent discoveries and advances

PART I: FUNDAMENTALS AND FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1 Introduction to Cells and Cell Research
Chapter 2 Physical Principles Underlying Cell Structure and Function
Chapter 3 Fundamentals of Molecular Biology
PART II: THE FLOW OF GENETIC INFORMATION
Chapter 4 Genes and Genomes
Chapter 5 Replication, Maintenance, and Rearrangements of Genomic DNA
Chapter 6 RNA Synthesis and Processing
Chapter 7 Transcriptional Regulation and Epigenetics
Chapter 8 Protein Synthesis, Processing, and Regulation
Chapter 9 Genomics, Proteomics, and Systems Biology
PART III: SUB-CELLULAR STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS
Chapter 10 The Nucleus
Chapter 11 Protein Sorting and Transport: The Endoplasmic Retiulum, Golgi Apparatus, and Lysosomes
Chapter 12 Mitochondria, Chloroplasts, and Peroxisomes
Chapter 13 The Cytoskeleton and Cell Movement
Chapter 14 The Plasma Membrane
Chapter 15 Cell Walls, the Extracellular Matrix, and Cell Interactions
PART IV: Cell Regulation
Chapter 16 Cell Signaling
Chapter 17 The Cell Cycle
Chapter 18 Cell Renewal and Cell Death
Chapter 19 Cancer

Geoffrey Cooper, UNITED STATES

Kenneth Adams, UNITED STATES

Geoffrey Cooper is Professor of Biology at Boston University. Receiving a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Miami in 1973, he pursued postdoctoral work with Howard Temin at the University of Wisconsin, where he developed gene transfer assays to characterize the proviral DNAs of Rous sarcoma virus and related retroviruses. He then joined the faculty of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School in 1975, where he pioneered the discovery of oncogenes in human cancers. He moved to Boston University as Chair of Biology in 1998 and subsequently served as Associate Dean of the Faculty for Natural Sciences, as well as teaching undergraduate cell biology and continuing his research on the roles of oncogenes in the signaling pathways that regulate cell proliferation and programmed cell death. He has authored over 100 research papers, two textbooks on cancer, and an award-winning novel, The Prize, dealing with fraud in medical research.

Kenneth W. Adams is an Associate Professor of Biology at Bridgewater State University. He earned a Ph.D. in Molecu-lar Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry from Boston University in 2006, where he investigated the role of Bcl-2family members in the regulation of apoptosis downstream of PI 3-kinase signaling in the lab of co-author Geoffrey M. Cooper. His subsequent postdoctoral research was con-ducted with Bradley T. Hyman at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he investigated the mechanisms through which apolipoprotein E and its receptors affect susceptibil-ity to Alzheimer’s disease. He then joined the Undergradu-ate Neuroscience Program at Boston University as a post- doctoral faculty fellow and lecturer, during which his re-search focused on the transcriptional network that drives neuronal differentiation using PC12 cells as a model. In 2013, he joined the faculty of Bridgewater State Univer-sity, where he initially continued his focus on the molecular mechanisms that mediate neuronal differentiation but has more recently returned to the Alzheimer’s work he conduct-ed during his postdoctoral research. In 2016, Kenneth was awarded the Presidential Award for Distinguished Teaching at Bridgewater State University, where he also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Research.

Lecturers can access the following digital resources to accompany their teaching with The Cell:

• Instructor's Manual & Active Learning Guide
• Figures (JPEG)
• Figure Slides (PowerPoint)
• Data Analysis Problems
• Test Bank (MS Word)
• All of the Videos and Animations that accompany the text.

Click here to access the full list of lecturer resources

"The new organization is more likely to allow a pick-and-choose approach in which the selection of specific chapters to cover in class is greatly facilitated, as the topics have been separated in a much clearer way. Furthermore, the order in which the different topics will be presented in the updated version follows a much more logical progression. It is true that some basic knowledge is needed before some of the technical aspects can be understood and appreciated. Furthermore, adding more videos and introducing videos that follow a more lecture-like format is a fantastic idea."-- German Rosas-Acosta, University of Texas at El Paso

"I think this is a fantastic revision plan and endorse all the ideas -greater selection of chapter questions, activities, digital resources, and easier access to the digital resources are particularly appealing." -- Jason Bush, California State University Fresno

"I like the addition of the cancer section and the neurodegen section at the end. I include a lot of that stuff in my course as a way to integrate concepts into real-world problems. For example, practicing applying the concepts and understanding that they apply to these biomedical issues." -- Laura Francis, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

"Addressing basic chemistry, biomolecules, protein structure and function, enzymes, and molecular biology out of the gate is a good idea. The rest of the course builds on these concepts." -- Ashok Upadhyaya, University of South Florida