How to learn molecular biology through pubmed research articles?
Tom Silhavy would use a similar method in the first year graduate Molecular Biology course.  

His text was basically a set of papers bound into a book "The power of bacterial genetics: a literature based course".  I'm not sure its in print anymore, but a used copy can be had.  If you find a copy you can just fetch the papers if you like. 

You can't do much better than finding excellent papers to read.  

Briefly, the class covered the development of selection for mutations and mapping them onto genes - use of bacteriophage and replicate plating.  The papers started in the 40s and went on from there to the heyday of molecular biology.  

It was an awesome course to take... an awesome baptism of fire.  

As they say... Whatever doesn't kill you, will select you for a distinguishing phenotype.