Book rec: Quickstart Molecular Biology, by Benfey. It's meant as a crash course for engineers being thrown into the fire of systems biology research or biotech startups. Biology is mind-bogglingly complicated, but Benfey does a good job of getting through "powerhouse of the cell" platitudes and getting to some fundamental mental models for genetics, biological information flow, and the tools we use to work with them, and does it in about 130 pages. Whether it's mRNA, CRISPR, or your own biology, this stuff is worth knowing a bit about. #bookstr

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21544398-quickstart-molecular-biology