Robert A. Meyers earned his Ph.D in organic chemistry from the University of California Los Angeles, was a post-doctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology and manager of chemical processes for TRW Inc. He has published in Science , written or edited 12 scientific books and his research has been reviewed in the New York Times , and the Wall Street Journal . He is one of the most prolific science editors in the world having originated, organized and served as Editor-in-Chief of three of the Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology , the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry and two editions of the present Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine .

Preface.
Editor-in-Chief.

Editorial Board.

List of Contributors.

Color Plates.

Sex Hormones (Male): Analogs and Antagonists ( Robert W.Brueggemeier ).

Shotgun Sequencing (SGS) ( Jun Yu, Gane Ka-Shu Wong, JianWang, Huanming Yang ).

Signaling Through JAKs and STATs: Interferons Lead the Way( Christian Schindler, Jessica Melillo ).

Signal Transduction Mediated by Heptahelical Receptors andHeterotrimeric G Proteins ( Terence E. H'ebert, John K.Northup, R. Victor Rebois ).

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Blocks and Haplotypes: Human MHCBlock Diversity ( E.J. Yunis, J. Zuñ;iga, C.E. Larsen,M. Fernández-Viñ;a, J. Granados, Z.L. Awdeh,C.A. Alper ).

Skin, Molecular Cell Biology of ( Annette Wysocki, ThomasMustoe, Gregory Schultz ).

Somatic Gene Therapy ( M. Schweizer, E. Flory, C.Mú;nk, Uwe Gottschalk, K. Cichutek ).

Spatial and Temporal Expression Patterns in Animals ( WernerE.G. Müller ).

Sphingolipid and Glycolipid Biology ( Anthony H.Futerman ).

Stem Cells ( Stewart Sell ).

Stem Cells, Adult ( Jason H. Pomerantz, Helen M.Blau ).

Stem Cells, Embryonic ( Mahendra Rao ).

Stem Cells (Human Embryonic) and Cancer ( Maty Tzukerman, KarlSkorecki ).

Stem Cells in the Adult Brain: Their Identification and Role inNeurogenesis ( Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Erica L. Jackson ).

Streptomyces , Molecular Biology of ( Paul Herron, EmmaTilley, Iain Hunter ).

Stress-Induced Expression of Heat Shock Proteins and Action ofthe Heat Shock Protein Effectors ( Bernd Bukau, Elizabeth A.Craig, Richard I. Morimoto, Arthur L. Horwich ).

Structure-based Drug Design and NMR-based Screening ( David J.Craik, Richard J. Clark ).

Structure, Function and Biogenesis of Peroxisomes ( Joel M.Goodman ).

Superantigens ( Matthew D. Baker, K. Ravi Acharya ).

Supermolecular Protein Complexes (Jianpeng Ma ).

Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy ( Nebojsa S.Marinkovic, Mark R. Chance ).

Glossary of Basic Terms.

The Twenty Amino Acids that are Combined to Form Proteins inLiving Things/

The Twenty Amino Acids with Abbreviations and Messenger RNA CodeDesignations.

Complementary Strands of DNA with Base Pairing.