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- Cells and tissues
- 1.1 van Leeuwenhoek’s Microscopes
- 1.2 The Atomic Force Microscope
- 1.3 Finding the bugs: the detection of pathogens
- 1.4 Selecting the cells you want: Fluorescence activated cell sorting
- 1.5 From person to proton: an illustration of scale
- Water and macromolecules
- 2.1 Linus Pauling
- 2.2 Testing for Sugar in Diabetes
- 2.3 Supersweet Chemicals
- 2.4 HOCl, an acid and an oxidizing agent
- Membranes and organelles
- DNA structure and the genetic code
- DNA as a data storage medium
- Transcription and the control of gene expression
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- Recombinant DNA and genetic engineering
- Manufacturing protein
- 8.1 More on the irritating formyl methionine
- 8.2 No ribosome required: making peptides in vitro
- 8.3 Hijacking the ribosome: how Hepatitis C takes control
- Protein structure
- 9.1 Scurvy
- 9.2 When a different amino acid will do: conservative mutations
- 9.3 How channels are built: an illustration of protein three-dimensional structure
- Intracellular protein trafficking
- How proteins work
- 11.1 Enzyme catalytic strategies
- 11.2 Analyzing enzyme kinetics: finding out how drugs work
- 11.3 A cytochrome ABC
- Energy trading within the cell
- 12.1 Porin is also called VDAC
- 12.2 Alternative names for components of the electron transport chain
- Metabolism
- 13.1 Plants can make glucose from fatty acids although mammals cannot: the glyoxylate shunt
- 13.2 Diabetes, starvation, ketone bodies and the Odor of Sanctity
- Ions and voltages
- 14.1 Changing the channel: the different types of potassium channel
- 14.2 The Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation
- Intracellular signalling
- Inercellular communication
- 16.1 Ionotropic and metabotropic receptors for the same transmitter
- 16.2 Cigarettes, mushrooms and insecticides
- Mechanical molecules
- 17.1 How Paramecium engages reverse gear
- 17.2 How Listeria uses actin polymerization to pass between host cells
- 17.3 Spearing Eggs: The acrosome and actin polymerization
- 17.4 Myosin in plants: cytoplasmic streaming
- 17.5 Lamins, disease and ageing
- Cell cycle and the control of cell number
- 18.1 Poles apart: centrosome duplication through the cell cycle
- 18.2 A factor in dividing cells triggers mitosis in interphase cells
- 18.3 What is Ataxia Telangiectasia?
- 18.4 Control of cell number: Why are we bigger than a mouse and smaller than an elephant?
- 18.5 p53: all that stands between us and cancer?
- The cell biology of the immune system
- Case study: Cystic fibrosis