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Edited by Drew Provan and John Gribben. 240 pp., illustrated. Malden, Mass., Blackwell Science, 2000. $190. ISBN 0-632-05037-3.

The highly specialized functions of blood cells and their ready accessibility account in large part for the rapidly expanding knowledge of the molecular basis of hematologic diseases. In his foreword to this book, Max Perutz states that the day he spent trying to correlate amino acid substitutions in the globin molecule with the symptoms they may cause was "one of the most exciting days" in his scientific life. In Molecular Haematology, Provan and Gribben aim to show the ways in which molecular biology has profoundly influenced our understanding of blood diseases and the ways in which molecular techniques can be . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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