Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
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Description:
This reference work is a web-based version of a twenty-volume print encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) Online combines ease of accessibility with continually updated information, providing user-friendly web access to over 3,000 articles across the life sciences.
Compiled as an electronic database, ELS will integrate current theory, practice and understanding of all basic and many applied aspects of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on cell and molecular biology and its relevance to medicine.
Topics covered by the ELS include biochemistry, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution and diversity of life, functional and comparative morphology, genetics and molecular biology, immunology, microbiology and virology, neuroscience, plant science, science and society, and structural biology.
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