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Some Critical Questions in Biological Physics discusses 18 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. Each chapter includes an introduction that is meant to be accessible to all readers followed by a section containing more technical details that may be of greater interest to specialists but still written in an accessible style. The book provides useful reading for undergraduate physical scientists considering a research career in the life science by presenting biological physics in a coherent modern framework. Additionally, it includes material relevant to medicine, pharmaceutics and biotechnology, and demonstrates biological physics with modern examples with a readily approachable style.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Author biography
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 twenty one 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
A Perspective