Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The review of the first edition of this excellent book in Nature said that “any copy of this book that finds itself on a research laboratory’s bookshelf will be dog‐eared and coffee‐stained in a matter of months”. We would be inclined to agree with this, but would temper the praise by pointing out that, judging from a cursory inspection of a small sample of research laboratories of our acquaintance, anything from the Thibetan Book of the Dead to the Perth Amboy NJ Telephone Directory for 1987 would be coffee‐stained, and probably dog‐eared, in a matter of hours, not months. Nevertheless,...