Table of Contents

Preface A note on conventions Listing of navigational entries A Dictionary of Biomedicine Appendix 1: The Greek Alphabet Appendix 2: SI Units Appendix 3: Single-letter codes for amino acids

About the Author

Dr John Lackie was formerly Senior Lecturer in Cell Biology at the University of Glasgow, then Director & Director of Research at the Yamanouchi Research Institute, Oxford (which sought new targets for drugs) and then Principal & CEO of the Westlakes Research Institute in Cumbria before setting up an independent consultancy company, Plumbland Consulting Ltd. He has edited four editions of the Dictionary of Cell & Molecular
Biology (4th Edition, 2007) and was Chief Editor of the Chambers' Dictionary of Science & Technology (2007).