قراءات إضافية | علم الأحياء الجزيئي: مقدمة قصيرة جدًّا

كتب دراسية

Bruce Alberts and Alexander Johnson, Molecular Biology of the Cell (Garland Science, 2014).
Jocelyn E. Krebs, Benjamin Lewin, Elliott S. Goldstein, and Stephen T. Kilpatrick, Lewin’s Essential Genes (Jones & Bartlett, 2013).
Lauren Pecorino, Molecular Biology of Cancer: Mechanisms, Targets and Therapeutics (Oxford University Press, 2012).

كتب للمطالعة

Sue Armstrong, p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code (Bloomsbury Sigma, 2014).
Nessa Carey, The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance (Icon Books, 2012).
John Parrington, The Deeper Genome (Oxford University Press, 2015).
James D. Watson, The Double Helix (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968).

مقالات أكاديمية

D. Baltimore, ‘Our genome unveiled’, Nature, 409(6822) (2001), 814–16. This article discusses the landmark publication of the draft human genome sequence and what it means.
D. E. Cameron et al., ‘A brief history of synthetic biology’, Nature Reviews Microbiology, 12(5) (2014), 381–90. This timeline article charts the technological and cultural lifetime of synthetic biology, with an emphasis on key breakthroughs and future challenges.
L. Chin et al., ‘Cancer genomics: from discovery science to personalized medicine’, Nature Medicine, 17(3) (2011), 297–303. This article provides a perspective on some of the major obstacles to translating cancer genome discoveries to a clinical setting (bench to bedside).
J. R. Ecker et al., ‘Genomics: ENCODE explained’, Nature, 489(7414) (2012), 52–5. This article summarizes the findings from the landmark ENCODE project.
T. King et al., ‘Identification of the remains of King Richard III’, Nature Communications, 5 (2014), 5631.
H. Ledford, ‘End of cancer-genome project prompts rethink’, Nature, 517(7533) (2015), 128–9. In this news article, scientists debate whether the focus should shift from sequencing genomes to analysing function.
P. Sahu et al., ‘Molecular farming: a biotechnological approach in agriculture for production of useful metabolites’, International Journal of Research in Biotechnology and Biochemistry, 4(2) (2014), 23–30. This article summarizes the production of pharmaceutical drugs, including vaccines and therapeutic proteins in plants, and discusses associated issues.

مصادر إلكترونية

CRISPR: the good, the bad and the unknown. In this special issue Nature brings together research, reporting, and expert opinion on gene-editing and its implications (2015). Available at: “http://www.nature.com/news/crispr-1.17547”.
GM crops: promise and reality. In this special issue Nature explores the hopes, the fears, the reality, and the future of GM crops (2013). Available at: “http://www.nature.com/news/specials/gmcrops/index.html”.
Scitable by Nature Education. This is an educational resource covering lots of different life science topics from the Nature Publishing Group. Available at: “http://www.nature.com/scitable”.