Some critical questions in biological physics : a guided tour around the bugbears / Thomas Andrew Waigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waigh, Tom A., author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 4.

IOP expanding physics

[IOP release 4]

IOP expanding physics, 2053-2563

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biophysics.

Medical Subjects:

Biophysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2017]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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text file

Biography/History:

Dr. Thomas Andrew Waigh was a physics undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh and then completed a PhD in the Cavendish laboratory at the University of Cambridge. This was followed by a two year post-doc at the Coll�ege de France in Paris in the laboratory of Pierre Giles de Gennes. He then returned to the UK with a lectureship in physics at the University of Leeds. Currently he is a senior lecturer in biological physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. Previously he has written two books on biological physics, Applied Biophysics and The Physics of Living Processes: a Mesoscopic Approach, published by Wiley. He has published over eighty articles.

Summary:

Some Critical Questions in Biological Physics' discusses eighteen key questions in biological physics, each forming independent chapters that will, by presenting the research in terms of key, unsolved problems, encourage interest in the field. It also provides useful reading for undergraduate physical scientists considering a career in this area.

Contents:

Preface

1. Molecular communication

crackling phone lines

2. How dynein works and other motor proteins

3. How brains work

wiring and consciousness

4. Spike trains and the senses

the mouse's whiskers

5. Elastic turbulence

gloopy chaos

6. How mucus works

the 21 mysteries in man

7. Synthetic biology

reengineering bugs and molecules

8. Missing instruments

grease monkeys required

9. The structure of carbohydrates

the perfect chip

10. Evolution and antibiotics

Bugmageddon

11. The regulation of expression in DNA

huge uncertainties in genetics

12. The origin of sub-diffusion inside cells

everything's gone fractional

13. Microrheology

the unexplored continents

14. Quantum phenomena in biology

the role of chunks

15. The structure of membranes

uncharted factories

16. Drug delivery

gene therapy and other stories

17. A good model for polyelectrolytes

bootstrapping with a many-body problem

18. The activity of hearts

the pump that quivers

19. A perspective.

Notes:

"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 26, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750313759

9780750313766

OCLC:

1007880349

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