Molecular Biology of the Cell

“I like to reach for textbooks sometimes. I feel like books are for too much of a general consumption sometimes and they're too high up in the level of abstraction and it's not good enough. So I like textbooks, I like "The Cell". I think "The Cell" was pretty cool. [...] And then I'm also suspicious of textbooks honestly because as an example in deep-learning there's no amazing textbooks and the field is changing very quickly. I imagine the same is true in say synthetic biology and so on, these books like "The Cell" are kind of outdated. They're still high-level, like what is the actual real source of truth? It's people in wet labs working with cells. Sequencing genomes and, yeah, actually working with it. And I don't have that much exposure to that or what that looks like. So I still don't fully, I'm reading through the cell and it's kind of interesting, and I'm learning but it's still not sufficient I would say in terms of understanding.”

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