Some critical questions in biological physics :a guided tour around the bugbears /

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"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.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.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.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.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.Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 26, 2017).

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