Stryer Biochemistry

Often copied, never matched. Biologists today. For four decades, this extraordinary textbook has shaped the teaching of biochemistry worldwide. Its exceptionally clear and precise presentation, relevance, refined didactics, and comprehensibility have become hallmarks of this standard work, highly valued by both educators and learners. These qualities are also evident in the newly released eighth edition, which once again bridges the biological and chemical foundations to physiological and medical questions. Among the most important innovations and improvements in this completely revised new edition are: Chapter 5: expanded presentation of mass spectrometry, protein mass, protein identity, and protein sequence. Chapter 9: new section on disease-causing mutations in hemoglobin genes, new case study on thalassemias. Chapter 13: new case study.