An essential teaching resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, providing a timely snapshot of the latest developments across a range of topics in the cellular and molecular life sciences.

Impact Factor (2007): up to 3.447!

Honorary Editor: David J Richardson (UEA, Norwich) supported by an expert Advisory Panel.

The journal captures the exciting science presented at the Biochemical Society Annual Symposium, Focused Meetings and Independent Meetings supported by the Society as a series of mini-reviews

Prestigious Medal Lectures are published in the form of authoritative reviews of the medallists' research areas.

The latest issue, Vol. 36(4), features Medal Lectures from Gurdyal Besra ('Tuberculosis: a balanced diet of lipids and carbohydrates'), Venki Ramakrishnan ('What we have learned from ribosome structures') and Adrian Bird ('The methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 and neurological disease'), together with the proceedings from the Gene Expression and Analysis Linked Focused Meetings.