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Single-Molecule Techniques: A Laboratory Manual

Edited By Paul R. Selvin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Taekjip Ha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

© 2008 • 507 pp., illus., appendix, index
Paperback • $169.00 • ISBN 978-087969775-4

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Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology, The Centennial Edition

Edited By John Cairns, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Gunther S. Stent, University of California, Berkeley; James D. Watson, Harvard University

© 2007 • 394 pp., illus., timeline, photo gallery
Hardcover • $30.00 • ISBN 978-087969800-3

This hugely influential book, published in 1966 as a 60th birthday tribute to Max Delbrück, is now republished as The Centennial Edition. On first publication, the book was hailed as “[introducing] into the literature of science, for the first time, a self–conscious historical element in which the participants in scientific discovery engage in writing their own chronicle. As such, it is an important document in the history of biology...” (Journal of History of Biology). And in another review it was described as “required reading for every student of experimental biology...[who] will sense the smell and rattle of the laboratory” (Bioscience). The book was a formative influence on many of today’s leading scientists.

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Gene Transfer: Delivery and Expression of DNA and RNA, A Laboratory Manual

Edited By Theodore Friedmann, University of California, San Diego; John Rossi, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California

© 2007 • 793 pp., illus., appendix, index
Paperback • $167 $41.75 • ISBN 978-087969765-5

Understanding gene function and regulation requires rigorous testing in live cells and organisms. Recent advances have provided a variety of new strategies for delivering DNA and RNA into cells and probing their expression, as well as new clinical applications that rely upon the introduction of genetic material. The vast number of available techniques for clinical and laboratory research often makes selecting the optimal method a difficult process. Gene Transfer: Delivery and Expression of DNA and RNA provides the first comprehensive guide to technical approaches for delivering nucleic acids into cells and organisms and of ensuring (even manipulating) appropriate expression. The detailed, step-by-step protocols cover a variety of methods, both well established and newly evolving. These include viral and nonviral methods of gene delivery, transgenic approaches, strategies for the regulation of transgene expression, and modification of the host response. The introductory matter to each chapter includes concise technical and theoretical discussions with considerations for selection of the appropriate system and strategies for delivery.

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Gene Transfer: Delivery and Expression of DNA and RNA, A Laboratory Manual

Edited By Theodore Friedmann, University of California, San Diego; John Rossi, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California

© 2007 • 793 pp., illus., appendix, index
Hardcover • $263 $65.75 • ISBN 978-087969764-8

Understanding gene function and regulation requires rigorous testing in live cells and organisms. Recent advances have provided a variety of new strategies for delivering DNA and RNA into cells and probing their expression, as well as new clinical applications that rely upon the introduction of genetic material. The vast number of available techniques for clinical and laboratory research often makes selecting the optimal method a difficult process. Gene Transfer: Delivery and Expression of DNA and RNA provides the first comprehensive guide to technical approaches for delivering nucleic acids into cells and organisms and of ensuring (even manipulating) appropriate expression. The detailed, step-by-step protocols cover a variety of methods, both well established and newly evolving. These include viral and nonviral methods of gene delivery, transgenic approaches, strategies for the regulation of transgene expression, and modification of the host response. The introductory matter to each chapter includes concise technical and theoretical discussions with considerations for selection of the appropriate system and strategies for delivery.

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Translational Control in Biology and Medicine
(Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Series 48)

Edited By Michael B. Mathews, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey; Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; John W.B. Hershey, University of California, Davis

© 2007 • 934 pp., illus., index
Hardcover • $139 $34.75 • ISBN 978-087969767-9

The new edition of this successful monograph has been both updated and broadened. Since the previous (second) edition was published in 2000, the structures of the bacterial and eukaryotic ribosomes have been published, advancing our basic understanding of translation and mechanisms involving protein and RNA regulators. In addition, as the title indicates, this edition has a new focus on the role of translational control in human development and disease. This book, with 30 chapters written by experts in the field, is essential reading for anyone interested in the process of translation, its regulation, and how its failure can be the cause of disease.

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Binding and Kinetics for Molecular Biologists

By James A. Goodrich, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jennifer F. Kugel, University of Colorado, Boulder

© 2007 • 182 pp., illus., appendices, index
Concealed wire binding • $61.00 • ISBN 978-087969736-5

This handbook offers a practical guide to the principles of quantitative analysis in biological experiments. The material is primarily aimed at working molecular biologists, but the scope and clarity of presentation make it equally suitable as an introduction for students. Topics covered range from the basics—such as measuring the concentrations of macromolecules—through considerations of binding constants and the kinetics of molecular interactions. The book ends with a thorough consideration of data analysis.

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Experimental Design for Biologists

By David J. Glass, M.D., Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts

© 2007 • 206 pp., illus., index
Hardcover • $37.00 $25.90 • ISBN 978-087969735-8

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Lab Ref, Volume 2
A Handbook of Recipes, Reagents, and Other Reference Tools for Use at the Bench

Edited By Albert S. Mellick, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York; Linda Rodgers, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York

© 2007 • 248 pp., illus., appendix, index
Concealed wire binding • $40.00 $28.00 • ISBN 978-087969815-7

Like its predecessor Lab Ref, Volume 1, this book is a handy benchtop source of recipes and information needed for common laboratory protocols. Lab Ref, Volume 2 contains recipes for procedures as diverse as RNA interference, imaging, proteomics, and quantitative nucleic acid analysis, and is organized by application for quick and easy reference. All recipes were derived from recent manuals published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, and each recipe is cross-referenced to its manual of origin. Reference tables and charts are included. To meet the growing need for computational resources in the biology laboratory, Lab Ref, Volume 2 also has an expanded Web site section with sources for biological materials, databases for acquiring and annotating genomic and proteomic data, and links to downloadable software.

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Epigenetics

Edited By C. David Allis, The Rockefeller University, New York; Thomas Jenuwein, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna; Danny Reinberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Marie-Laure Caparros, Associate Editor

© 2007 • 502 pp., illus., appendices, index
Paperback • $91.00 • ISBN 978-087969875-1

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Regulatory RNAs
(Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology LXXI)

Edited By Bruce Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York; David Stewart, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York

© 2006 • 574 pp., illus., indexes
(Hardcover edition includes online access; call for information and registration)
Hardcover • $310 $155.00 • ISBN 978-087969817-1

“Regulatory RNAs” was the theme of the 71st annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, where scientists from around the world presented the latest advances in the biology of RNAs, including RNA interference, transcriptional and translational control, RNA editing, and the role of RNAs in biological circuits and epigenetic events. Investigators discussed the latest technologies aimed at large-scale characterization of RNAs, as well as the roles of small RNAs in development and cancer. This volume is a timely survey of this important new area of molecular biology.