Pedro J. Chedrese
Editor

2009

A Molecular Approach

Molecular biology is a relatively new science that emerged from the advances in biochemistry of the 1940s and 1950s, when the structure of the nucleic acids and proteins were elucidated. With progress in the 1970s in nucleic acid enzymology and the discovery of the restriction enzymes, the tools of molecular biology became widely available and were applied to cell biology to study how genes are regulated.