This book has a fl avour of its own both, in scope and content, distinctly different from a number of already existing textbooks on Medical Biochemistry. Author has successfully met the requirements of a student-centred and needbased, innovative curriculum and dovetailed this in right proportion with pertinent aspects of basic, applied and clinical concepts relevant to Health Sciences. While main concepts of chemical and molecular basis of diseases have not been lost sight of and the emerging frontiers of recombinant DNA research and genetic engineering have been