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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Transport and Replication
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Back Matter
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About this book
The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific community. It has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field, called Physical Biology, with the aim of reaching a better understanding of the biological mechanisms at molecular and cellular levels. Statistical Mechanics in particular plays an important role in the development of this new field.
For this reason, the XXth session of the famous Sitges Conference on Statistical Physics was dedicated to "Physical Biology: from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior". As is by now tradition, a number of lectures were subsequently selected, expanded and updated for publication as lecture notes, so as to provide both a state-of-the-art introduction and overview to a number of subjects of broader interest and to favor the interchange and cross-fertilization of ideas between biologists and physicists.
The present volume focuses on three main subtopics (biological water, protein solutions as well as transport and replication), presenting for each of them the on-going debates on recent results. The role of water in biological processes, the mechanisms of protein folding, the phases and cooperative effects in biological solutions, the thermodynamic description of replication, transport and neural activity, all are subjects that are revised in this volume, based on new experiments and new theoretical interpretations.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aspects of Physical Biology
Book Subtitle: Biological Water, Protein Solutions, Transport and Replication
Editors: G. Franzese, M. Rubi
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78765-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-78764-8Published: 10 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09757-7Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-78765-5Published: 02 December 2008
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 233
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Complex Systems, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems