400 Pages
181 Color Illustrations
by
Garland Science
400 Pages
by
Garland Science
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A Top 25 CHOICE 2016 Title, and recipient of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award.
How much energy is released in ATP hydrolysis? How many mRNAs are in a cell? How genetically similar are two random people? What is faster, transcription or translation?
Cell Biology by the Numbers explores these questions—and dozens of others—providing a richly illustrated and handy... Read more
The Path to Biological Numeracy
1. Size and Geometry
2. Concentrations and Absolute Numbers
3. Energies and Forces
4. Rates and Duration
5. Information & Errors
6. A Quantitative Miscellany
Epilogue
Biography
Ron Milo, Rob Phillips
"This unique book is all about numerical thinking in (cell) biology. In about 100 vignettes, each a few pages long, the authors address all kinds of questions from a quantitative perspective.Overall, this is an interesting and highly useful volume, which should sit on the shelf of anyone working in cell biology and related fields, as well as anyone who is just curious about (cell) biology from a quantitative perspective."
Andreas Handel, Epidemiology & Biostatistics,University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Volume 92, Number 4 (December 2017) of The Quarterly Review of Biology
