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.

Syngamy and Cell Cycle Control ( Michael Whitaker ).

Synovial Mast Cells in Inflammatory Arthritis ( Theoharis C.Theoharides ).

Synthesis of Peptide Mimetics and their Building Blocks( Bruce K. Cassels, Patricio Sáez ).

Synthetic Peptides: Chemistry, Biology, and Drug Design ( TomiK. Sawyer ).

Systems Biology ( H. Busch, R. Eils ).

Targeted Therapy: Genomic Approaches ( Anna C. Maroney, SergeyE. Ilyin ).

Targeting and Intracellular Delivery of Drugs ( RuthDuncan ).

Telomerase ( Maria Antonietta Cerone, SilviaBacchetti ).

Telomere-binding Proteins in Fission Yeast (JunkoKanoh ).

Thale Cress ( Arabidopsis thaliana ) Genome (Mark D.Curtis, Ueli Grossniklaus ).

Therapeutic Angiogenesis (Mary E. Gerritsen ).

Therapeutic Compounds in Nature as Leads for New Pharmaceuticals (Antony D. Buss, Brian Cox, Roger D. Waigh ).

Three Dimensional Cell Culture: The Importance ofMicroenvironment in Regulation of Function ( Sophie A.Lelièvre, Mina J. Bissell ).

Total Analysis Systems, Micro ( Shigeori Takenaka ).

Transcription Factor NF- B: Function, Structure,Regulation, Pathways, and Applications ( Raymond Cheong, AndreLevchenko ).

Transgenic Fish ( Pinwen Peter Chiou, Jenny Khoo, Chung ZoonChun, Thomas T. Chen ).

Transgenic Mice in Biomedical Research ( J. Willem Voncken,Marten Hofker ).

Transgenic Plants for Food Use ( Susanne Stirn, HorstLörz ).

Translation of RNA to Protein ( Robert Ashley Cox, HenryRudolph Victor Arnstein ).

Triacylglycerol Storage and Mobilization, Regulation of( Günter Müller, Stefan Petry, Aventis PharmaGermany, a member of the Sanofi Aventis group ).

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.