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Some critical questions in biological physics : a guided tour around the bugbears /
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 p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2017]
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| Colección: | IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP expanding physics. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.