Molecular biology and biotechnology, hardcover/ralph rapley

This popular textbook has been revised and updated to provide a comprehensive overview and to reflect the latest developments in this rapidly developing area.

Advances in basic research at the molecular level have provided many insights into biological processes and allowed the production of new developments across the fields of genome editing, proteomics, agriculture, microbial biotechnology, bioinformatics and therapeutics.

This new edition provides the reader with a number of key areas in discrete chapters either updated from the previous edition or written as entirely new chapters concerning emerging fields.

By presenting information in an easily assimilated form, this book makes an ideal undergraduate text for students of biology and chemistry, as well as appealing to postgraduates.

About author(s): Dr Ralph Rapley completed a BSc (Hons) in Molecular Biology and a PhD in Molecular Immunology at Birmingham University before undertaking various research positions including at the Scripps Research Institute in California and MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Texas.

His research initially focused on the design and production of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and protein display systems.

Latterly, his research has concentrated on bioinformatic identification of genetic changes in oncology for improving diagnostics.

He has written and edited 18 textbooks in molecular biology, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, Higher Education Academy and recently was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.