Landmark Papers in Cell Biology. Joseph G. Gall and J. Richard McIntosh, eds. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2000, 554 pp., hardcover, $45.00. ISBN 0-87969-602-8.

The American Society for Cell Biology is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the publication of this collection of significant papers in their field. It is impressive to see before you the growth of knowledge of the functioning of the living cell since 1957, the date of the earliest included publication: J.H. Taylor, P.S. Woods, and W.L. Hughes ( Proc Natl Acad Sci ) explain the organization and duplication of chromosomes using autoradiography with tritiated thymidine. The papers were nominated by the editorial board of Molecular Biology of the Cell and chosen by editors Gall and McIntosh, both …