Henrik Flyvbjerg, Ole G. Mouritsen (auth.), Henrik Flyvbjerg, John Hertz, Mogens H. Jensen, Ole G. Mouritsen, Kim Sneppen (eds.)3540624759, 9783540624752
Table of contents :
Introduction: Physics – and the Physics of Biological Systems….Pages 1-8
Microchips for Sorting DNA….Pages 11-26
The Complexity of Proteins….Pages 29-60
The Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding….Pages 61-79
From Interatomic Interactions to Protein Structure….Pages 80-116
Probing Protein Motion Through Temperature Echoes….Pages 117-152
Motor Proteins….Pages 155-170
Shapes and Fluctuations in Membranes….Pages 171-188
Bending Energy Concept of Vesicle and Cell Shapes and Shape Transitions….Pages 189-212
Microtubule Dynamics….Pages 213-230
A Physicist’s Introduction to Brains and Neurons….Pages 233-251
Statistical Mechanics and Sensory Signal Processing….Pages 252-280
Molecular Evolutionary Biology….Pages 283-306
Smart Bacterial Colonies….Pages 307-324
Complementarity of Physics, Biology and Geometry in the Dynamics of Swimming Micro-Organisms….Pages 325-340
Mass Extinctions vs. Uniformitarianism in Biological Evolution….Pages 341-356
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