Physical biology of the cell /
"Physical Biology of the Cell maps the huge and complex landscape of cell and molecular biology from the distinct perspective of physical biology. As a key organizing principle, the proximity of topics is based on the physical concepts that unite a given set of biological phenomena. Herein lies...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Garland Science,
[2013]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Why: biology by the numbers
- Ch. 2. What and where: construction plans for cells and organisms
- Ch. 3. When: stopwatches at many scales
- Ch. 4. Who: "bless the little beasties"
- Ch. 5. Mechanical and chemical equilibrium in the living cell
- Ch. 6. Entropy rules!
- Ch. 7 Two-state systems: from ion channels to cooperative binding
- Ch. 8. Random walks and the structure of macromolecules
- Ch. 9. Electrostatics for salty solutions
- Ch. 10. Beam theory: architecture for cells and skeletons
- Ch. 11. Biological membranes: life in two dimensions
- Ch. 12. The mathematics of water
- Ch. 13. A statistical view of biological dynamics
- Ch. 14. Life in crowded and disordered environments
- Ch. 15. Rate equations and dynamics in the cell
- Ch. 16. Dynamics of molecular motors
- Ch. 17. Biological electricity and the Hodgkin-Huxley model
- Ch. 18. Light and life
- Ch. 19. Organization of biological networks
- Ch. 20. Biological patterns: order in space and time
- Ch. 21. Sequences, specificity, and evolution
- Ch. 22. Whither physical biology?