Abstract:
The authors and publisher are pleased to present the twenty-sixth edition of Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry. A major goal of the authors continues to be to provide both medical and other students of the health sciences with a book that both describes the basics of biochemistry and is user-friendly and interesting. A second major ongoing goal is to reflect the most significant advances in biochemistry that are important to medicine. However, a third major goal of this edition was to achieve a substantial reduction in size, as feedback indicated that many readers prefer shorter texts. To achieve this goal, all of the chapters were rigorously edited, involving their amalgamation, division, or deletion, and many were reduced to approximately one-half to two-thirds of their previous size. This has been effected without loss of crucial information but with gain in conciseness and clarity.
