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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.

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Author:   Dr Thomas Waigh (University of Manchester)
Publisher:   Institute of Physics Publishing
Imprint:   Institute of Physics Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.575kg
ISBN:  

9780750313759

ISBN 10:   0750313757
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   29 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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

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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 Collège 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 more than 80 articles.

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