Motion Analysis of Living Cells.(Review)

Motion Analysis of Living Cells. DAVID R. SOLL AND DEBORAH WESSELLS, eds. Wiley-Liss, 1998. xii, 298 pages. (ISBN 0-471-15915-8, hardback $150.)

This timely book is part of the series, "Techniques in Modern Biomedical Microscopy," and it should be of great interest to all who work in cell and developmental biology. The scope is broad, ranging from bacteria, through slime molds, to animal cells in culture and in the living embryo. Many chapters focus on describing new technical developments, and the increasing pace of development of techniques in both microscopy and image analysis gets good coverage.

The first chapter reviews bacterial motility and chemotaxis, a welcome reminder to those of us who do not work with bacteria that there is a …