Some 30,000 entries in this dictionary offer brief definitions of terms commonly used in biotechnology, molecular biology, and biomedicine. Entries provide information on the chemical structures and molecular weights of drugs, antibiotics, and biochemically important compounds, listing corresponding generic names for trade names of drugs and cross-references to chemical structure. The dictionary will be useful for molecular biologists, biochemists, cell biologists, medical doctors, and pharmaceutic chemists. This second edition contains 100 new illustrations of chemical structures, many new terms, and some 3,000 additional abbreviations. The author is professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York College at Potsdam. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)