Molecular Biology of the Cell is a cellular and molecular biology textbook published by W.W. Norton & Co and currently authored by Bruce Alberts, Rebecca Heald, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walter.

The book was first published in 1983 by Garland Science and is now in its seventh edition.

Molecular Biology of the Cell is widely used in introductory courses at the university level, being considered a reference in many libraries and laboratories around the world.

[2] The sixth edition is dedicated to the memory of co-author Julian Lewis, who died in early 2014.

[3] It was written in intense collaborative sessions in which the authors lived together over periods of time,[3] organized by editor Miranda Robertson, then-Biology Editor of Nature.