Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry
7th edition

Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry guides students through an updated survey of biochemistry's enduring principles, definitive discoveries and groundbreaking new advances. Students taking biochemistry for the first time often have difficulty with two key aspects of the course : approaching quantitative problems and applying what they learned in organic chemistry. Central to this book's popularity are the effective ways it helps students overcome these difficulties by focusing on chemical logic, clear figures and artwork and a variety of problem solving tools.
As experienced teachers, Nelson and Cox maintain a careful balance of current science and enduring concepts, incorporating a tremendous amount of new findings, but only those that help illustrate biochemistry's foundational principles. Students will encounter new information emerging from high throughput DNA sequencing, x-ray crystallography, the manipulation of genes and gene expression and other techniques.
They will see how contemporary biochemistry has shifted away from exploring metabolic pathways in isolation to focusing on interactions among pathways. Included in this book is an updated understanding of the relevance of biochemistry to the study of human disease (including a whole new special theme : Metabolic Integration, Obesity and Diabetes) as well as the important role of evolutionary theory in biochemical research.