Essential Concepts in Molecular Pathology

Essential Concepts in Molecular Pathology, Second Edition, offers  an introduction to molecular genetics and the "molecular" aspects of  human disease. The book illustrates how pathologists harness their  understanding of these entities to develop new diagnostics and  treatments for various human diseases. This new edition offers  pathology, genetics residents, and molecular pathology fellows an  advanced understanding of the molecular mechanisms of disease that goes  beyond what they learned in medical and graduate school. 

By  bridging molecular concepts of pathogenesis to the clinical expression  of disease in cell, tissue and organ, this fully updated, introductory  reference provides the background necessary for an understanding of  today’s advances in pathology and medicine.

• Explains  the practice of "molecular medicine" and the translational aspects of  molecular pathology, including molecular diagnostics, molecular  assessment and personalized medicine
• Orients  non-pathologists on what pathologists look for and how they interpret  their observational findings based on histopathology
• Provides the reader with what is missing from most targeted introductions to pathology—the cell biology behind pathophysiology