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Product Description: A book that constitutes the first attempt to comprehensively assemble current knowledge of different types of such elements, highlight recent developments in the field, and challenge the distinction between viruses and linear plasmids...read more

Product Description: Genome Duplication provides a comprehensive and readable overview of the underlying principles that govern genome duplication in all forms of life, from the simplest cell to the most complex multicellular organism. Using examples from the three domains of life - bacteria, archaea, and eukarya - Genome Duplication shows how all living organisms store their genome as DNA and how they all use the same evolutionary-conserved mechanism to duplicate it: semi-conservative DNA replication by the replication fork...read more

Product Description: This book, which includes the first fourteen chapters of the acclaimed monograph DNA Replication in Eukaryotic Cells, is a broad account of the basic principles of DNA replication and related functions such as DNA repair and protein phosphorylation...read more

Product Description: A cell's ability to control replication of its DNA is fundamental to its normal development or transformation into a cancerous state. DNA replication is also a crucial step in the cell cycle, and recent improvements in our understanding of cell cycle control have promoted a fresh surge of interest in the subject...read more

Product Description: Relatively simple to perform, yet extremely diverse in tis applications, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become an important tool in many areas of biomedical research. It enables scientists to produce large quantities of DNA from minute amounts of starting material...read more

Product Description: An understanding of the initiation of DNA replication holds the key to what controls cell division, growth and differentiation. This topic is central to studies in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics and molecular biology, but many textbooks have fallen behind the rapid developments in the field...read more

Product Description: Understanding the mechanism and regulation of eukaryotic DNA replication remains a fundamental area of modern biological research. Replication of the cell s genome is one of the critical, regulated events that occur during cell proliferation and cell cycle progression...read more

Product Description: Biosynthesis of cellular and viral DNA and RNA has been a major topic in molecular biology and biochemistry. The studies by Arthur Kornberg and his colleagues on the in-vitro synthesis of DNA have opened new avenues to understanding the processes controlling the duplication of the genetic information encoded in the DNA and RNA of bacterial and mammalian cells...read more

Product Description: Book by Kaplan, Albert S.

The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num­ bering, has probably reached that stage at which relatively few new­ truly new-viruses will be discovered. Triggered by the intellectual probes and techniques of molecular biology, genetics, biochemical cytology, and high-resolution microscopy and spectroscopy, the field has experienced a genuine information explosion. Few serious attempts have been made to chronicle these events. This comprehensive series, which will comprise some 6000 pages in a total of about 22 volumes, represents a commitment by a large group of active investigators to analyze, digest, and expostulate on the great mass of data relating to viruses, much of which is now amorphous and disjointed, and scattered throughout a wide literature. In this way, we hope to place the entire field in perspective, and to develop an invalua­ ble reference and sourcebook for researchers and students at all levels. This series is designed as a continuum that can be entered anywhere, but which also provides a logical progression of developing facts and integrated concepts.