Cell Movements: from Molecules to Motility (2nd Edition)

by Dennis Bray

Garland Publishing (2001) 372 pages. ISBN 0-8153-3282-3

£29.95

‘All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move’.

If only Benjamin Franklin had laid his hands on a copy of Cell Movements by Dennis Bray, he might have been tempted to change ‘mankind’ to ‘life’ and add the caveat ‘but on the whole, pretty much everything is in the last class.’ One case, then, in which ignorance is bliss. For the rest of us, however, Cell Movements is more of a lesson that ‘ignorance is embarrassing’, and what better way to avoid the embarrassment than digging deep into this new edition?

In a personable preface that sets the tone for the rest of the book, Bray points out that much has changed in the ten years since the first edition...

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