Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry
by David L. Nelson, Michael M. Cox · first published 2021
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"Available for the first time in Achieve, the definitive reference text for biochemistry Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, 8e helps students focus on the most important aspects of biochemistry-- the principles! Dave Nelson, Michael Cox, and new co-author Aaron Hoskins identify the most important principles of biochemistry and direct student attention to these with icons and resources targeted to each principle."--
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I studied Biochemistry/Comp Sci and the foundational biochmeistry book imo is the Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry. It goes over the basic biochemistry and once you understand that things just start to “Make sense. Once you have those basics you can read the wikipedia article and things start to click. On the other…
on “Genomics – A programmer’s guide” ↗To really get the most you can out of the article, you might want to check out Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, by Nelson and Cox. It's a wonderful book! Glycolysis is covered in chapter 14.
on “An unexpected twist in cancer metabolism” ↗The best textbooks for this (this is something of a consensus in the field also) are Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts et al. and Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry by Nelson and Cox.
on “Synthetic biology is heading for the cloud” ↗Check Lehninger "Principles of Biochemistry". RuBisCo (most abundant enzyme in nature) fixates CO2 before they could be turned into sugars but this enzyme operates in suboptimal conditions at current CO2 concentrations. Thus increased CO2 concentration…
on “MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air” ↗…google fu did not yield much, surprisingly) - I realized that I needed to pick up more education. Two books I'm making my way through: o Essential Cell Biology, Second Edition - $7+shipping.[1] o Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, Fourth Edition - $14+Shipping. [2] Plus, the one I really, really want - but used 2004 editions are insanely expensive, and there has been a lot of useful developments in nutrition and metabolism since…
on “Who knew cereal was so bad for you?” ↗…2018 https://www.youtube.com /playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63LmSVIVzy584-ZbjbJ-Y63 MIT 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science, Fall 2014 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63LOmB3_O0x... Textbooks (free PDFs available on gen.lib.rus.ec): Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/ca/product/Lehning... Molecular Biology of the Cell https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21054/
on “Biochemical Pathway Maps” ↗