Imperial College Press, 2008. — 468 p. This book presents the hotly debated question of whether quantum mechanics plays a non-trivial role in biology. In a timely way, it sets out a distinct quantum biology agenda. The burgeoning fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, quantum technology, and quantum information processing are now strongly converging. The acronym BINS, for...
South Melbourne: Macmillan Education Australia, 1996. — 444 p. Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement introduces readers to key concepts concerning the anatomical, mechanical, physiological, neural, and psychological bases of human movement. The text provides undergraduate students with a broad foundation for more detailed study of the subdisciplines of human movement and...
Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2004. — 378 p. The Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement, Second Edition, is now fully updated with information and enhanced learning aids that increase the readability and value of the text. Like its predecessor, the new edition provides a balanced introduction to each of the major biophysical subdisciplines of kinesiology: anatomy, biomechanics,...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1989. — 366 p. — (Springer Series in Biophysics 3). — ISBN: 978-3-642-73927-9 (Print) 978-3-642-73925-5 (Online). In this volume the contributions of the 2nd International EBSA (European Biophysical Societies Association) Symposium devoted to the biophysical and biochemical aspects of the structure and interaction of cytoskeletal and...
B.: Springer, 2006. - 447 p. This book presents a physicists view of life. The primary life functions of animals, such as eating, growing, reproducing and getting around all depend on motion: Motion of materials through the body, motion of limbs and motion of the entire body through water, air and on land. These activities are driven by internal information stored in the genes...
Springer, Japan, 2017. — 491 p. — ISBN: 9784431560937 This book focuses on bioelectrics, a new multidisciplinary field encompassing engineering and biology with applications to the medical, environmental, food, energy, and biotechnological fields. At present, 15 universities and institutes in Japan, the USA and the EU comprise the International Consortium of Bioelectrics,...
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2015. — 199 p. — ISBN10: 9814616478 Do you often lose your keys? You will find in this book the best strategy to find them, or at least the one deduced from statistical physics. What is the link with biology? Some proteins use the same strategy to find their target inside a living cell. This example illustrates one of the many links...
Springer, 2013. — 401 p. This volume provides an overview of the development and scope of molecular biophysics and in-depth discussions of the major experimental methods that enable biological macromolecules to be studied at atomic resolution. It also reviews the physical chemical concepts that are needed to interpret the experimental results and to understand how the...
Kluwer, 2004. - 424 p. - Written by prominent specialists in the field, Biosphycial Techniques in Photosynthesis provides, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the various techniques that have proved to be of great importance in studying the mechanism of both oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis. Each chapter discusses the basic concepts of a technique, practical...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. — 375 p. — (Springer Series in Biophysics 16). — ISBN: 978-3-642-38504-9 (Print) 978-3-642-38505-6 (Online). Systems Biology represents a new paradigm aiming at a whole-organism-level understanding of biological phenomena, emphasizing interconnections and functional interrelationships rather than component parts. The study of network...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 384 p. — (Advanced Structured Materials 91). — ISBN: 331978532X. This book presents a comprehensive and unifying approach to analytical identification of material properties of biological materials. Focusing on depth-sensing indentation testing, pipette aspiration testing, and torsion of soft tissues, it discusses the following...
Springer, Berlin, 2006, 280 p., ISBN: 3540307001 Technical advancements are basic elements in our life. In biophysical studies, new applications and improvements in well-established techniques are being implemented every day. This book deals with advancements produced not only from a technical point of view, but also from new approaches that are being taken in the study of...
Springer, 2006. - 290 p. - Technical advancements are basic elements in our life. In biophysical studies, new applications and improvements in well-established techniques are being implemented every day. This book deals with advancements produced not only from a technical point of view, but also from new approaches that are being taken in the study of biophysical samples, such...
Springer, 2015. - 173 p. This book examines information processing performed by bio-systems at all scales: from genomes, cells and proteins to cognitive and even social systems. It introduces a theoretical/conceptual principle based on quantum information and non-Kolmogorov probability theory to explain information processing phenomena in biology as a whole. The book begins...
Springer, 2012. — 190 p. Physics, mathematics and chemistry all play a vital role in understanding the true nature and functioning of biological membranes, key elements of living processes. Besides simple spectroscopic observations and electrical measurements of membranes we address in this book the phenomena of coexistence and independent existence of different membrane...
Springer, 2008. — 687 p. Humans have always been fascinated by marine life, from extremely small diatoms to the largest mammal that inhabits our planet, the blue whale. However, studying marine life in the ocean is an extremely difficult proposition because an ocean environment is not only vast but also opaque to most instruments and can be a hostile environment in which to...
N.-Y.: IOS Press, 2010. - 252 p. The essence of brain function consists in how information is processed, transferred and stored. Current neurophysiological doctrine remains focused within a spike timing paradigm, but this has a limited capacity for advancing the understanding of how the brain works. This book puts forward a new model; the neuroelectrodynamic model (NED), which...
Springer, 2006. — 441 p. This volume is based on the lectures and selected posters on different aspects of biological effects of EMF, presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "The mechanisms of biological effect of Extremely High Power Pulses (EHPP)" and the UNESCOWHOIUPAB Seminar "Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Biological Effects of EMF" that took place in March...
CRC Press, 2017. — 470 p. This illustrated treatment explains the methods used for measuring how much a reaction gets speeded up, as well as the framework for solving problems such as ligand binding and macromolecular folding, using the step-by-step approach of numerical integration. It is a thoroughly modern text, reflecting the recent ability to observe reactions at the...
Springer, 2015. - 365 p. - Volume 355 of Topics in Current Chemistry. - The series Topics in Current Chemistry presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research. The scope of coverage is all areas of chemical science including the interfaces with related disciplines such as biology, medicine and materials science. The goal of each thematic...
Springer, 2015. - 284 p. - Volume 356 of Topics in Current Chemistry. - The series Topics in Current Chemistry presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research. The scope of coverage is all areas of chemical science including the interfaces with related disciplines such as biology, medicine and materials science. The goal of each thematic...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2007. — 467 p. Bioengineering and Biophysical Aspects of Electromagnetic Fields primarily contains discussions on the physics, engineering, and chemical aspects of electromagnetic (EM) fields at both the molecular level and larger scales, and investigates their interactions with biological systems. The first volume of the bestselling and newly updated...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2007. — 465 p. — Biological and Medical Aspects of Electromagnetic Fields examines potential health hazards, exposure standards, and medical applications of electromagnetic (EM) fields. The second volume in the bestselling and newly revised Handbook of Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Third Edition, this book draws from the latest studies on...
New York: CRC Press, 2006. - 464 p. Biological and Medical Aspects of Electromagnetic Fields examines potential health hazards, exposure standards, and medical applications of electromagnetic (EM) fields. The second volume in the bestselling and newly revised Handbook of Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Third Edition , this book draws from the latest studies on the...
CRC Press, 2018. - 553 p. This book introduces the concepts and practical tools necessary to understand the behavior of biological macromolecules at a quantitative level. It begins by describing biochemical phenomena using principles of classical and statistical thermodynamics. Unlike other books, this text goes beyond theory to explain in detail how the equations are applied...
IOS Press, 2009. - 449 p. Although infrared spectroscopy has been applied with success to the study of important biological and biomedical processes for many years, key advances in this vibrant technique have led to its increasing use, ranging from characterization of individual macromolecules (DNA, RNA, lipids, proteins) to human tissues, cells and their components. Infrared...
Springer, 2018. - 616 p. This book mainly focuses on key aspects of biomembranes that have emerged over the past 15 years. It covers static and dynamic descriptions, as well as modeling for membrane organization and shape at the local and global (at the cell level) scale. It also discusses several new developments in non-equilibrium aspects that have not yet been covered...
CRC Press, 2016. - 412 p. - Connecting past, present, and future instrument development and use, Biocalorimetry: Foundations and Contemporary Approaches explores biocalorimetry’s history, fundamentals, methodologies, and applications. Some of the most prominent calorimeter developers and users share invaluable personal accounts of discovery, discussing innovative techniques as...
2nd Edition. - Oxford University Press, 2005. - 217 p. - DNA as the genetic material is a topic of intense interest in the 21st century, with the genomes of many organisms having been sequenced. The double helix structure discovered by Watson and Crick 50 years ago is now very familiar and its importance for DNA function is widely appreciated. However, it has become clear that...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 311 p. Chemical Biophysics provides an engineering-based approach to biochemical system analysis for graduate-level courses on systems biology, computational bioengineering and molecular biophysics. It is the first textbook to apply rigorous physical chemistry principles to mathematical and computational modeling of biochemical systems for an...
New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1998. — 184 p. In this landmark book, Robert O. Becker, M.D., a pioneer in the field of bioelectric science, presents a fascinating look at the role electricity plays in healing, challenging the traditional mechanistic model of the body. Colorful and controversial, this is a tale of engrossing research, scientific and medical politics, and...
State University of New York Press, 1982. — 156 p. The environment is now thoroughly polluted by man-made sources of electromagnetic radiation with frequencies and magnitudes never before present. Man's activities have probably changed the earth's electromagnetic background to a greater degree than they have changed any other natural physical attribute of the earth. The...
State Univ. of New York Press, 1982, Pages: 156 The environment is now thoroughly polluted by man-made sources of electromagnetic radiation with frequencies and magnitudes never before present. Man's activities have probably changed the earth's electromagnetic background to a greater degree than they have changed any other natural physical attribute of the earth. The evidence...
John Wiley & Sons, 2009. — 483 p. — ISBN: 047082400X Biophysical Bone Behavior: Principles and Applications is the culmination of efforts to relate the biophysical phenomena in bone to bone growth and electrical behavior. Behari develops a bridge between the physics and biology of bone leading to its clinical applications, primarily electro stimulations in fracture healing and...
CRC Press, 2018. - 301 p. The main purpose of this book is to provide in-depth presentation of physical techniques for measuring water transport and their applications to a variety of biological membranes, from model membrane systems to cell membranes, and then from isolated cells to multicellular barrier systems, such as epithelia or even whole organisms. This survey of water...
Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2010, 192 p., ISBN: 3642159001 This book presents the biophysics of hair. It deals with the structure of hair, its mechanical properties, the nanomechanical characterization, tensile deformation, tribological characterization, the thickness distribution and binding interactions on hair surface. Another important topic of the book is the health of hair,...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2017. — 169 p. — ISBN: 3319457063 Skin is the outer layer covering human or animal body and is a complex biological structure. Its function is to protect the body from physical and environmental assaults and to provide sensation, heat regulation, water resistance, and so on. Environmental conditions, such as dry and cold weather,...
Princeton University Press, 2012. - 653 p. - Interactions between the fields of physics and biology reach back over a century, and some of the most significant developments in biology-from the discovery of DNA's structure to imaging of the human brain-have involved collaboration across this disciplinary boundary. For a new generation of physicists, the phenomena of life pose...
San Diego: Academic Press, 2000. — 487 p. People are immersed in electromagnetic fields from such sources as power lines, domestic appliances, mobile phones, and even electrical storms. All living beings sense electric fields, but the physical origins of the phenomenon are still unclear. Magnetobiology considers the effects of electromagnetic fields on living organisms. It...
Rd Edition. — Springer, 2015. — 455 p. — ISBN The new edition of this authoritative text provides an interdisciplinary treatise of all aspects of the interactions between light and the living world. It starts with a description of the physics of light, and how to deal with it in experiments and observations. The phenomena described in the rest of the book covers all organisms:...
Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 2007, 426 p. The purpose of the book is to give a survey of the physics that is relevant for biological applications, and also to discuss what kind of biology needs physics. The book gives a broad account of basic physics, relevant for the applications and various applications from properties of proteins to processes in the cell to wider themes such...
Academic Press, 2000. — 259 p. — ISBN: 0-12-109840-0 Biology in Physics is a radical new book which bridges the gap between biology and physics. The aim is to promote an interdisciplinary exchange of scientific information and ideas, in order to stimulate cooperation in research. The scope of this volume explores both the concepts and techniques of biophysics and illustrates...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 350 p. — ISBN: 9781107058705. Macromolecules in solutions can be distinctly characterised by their transport behaviour in solution phase. The study of the transport processes includes diffusion coefficient, sedimentation coefficient, intrinsic viscosity and friction constant. The question arises as to how to explicitly characterise the...
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014. — 4056 p. Comprehensive Biomedical Physics is a new reference work that provides the first point of entry to the literature for all scientists interested in biomedical physics. It is of particularly use for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of medical biophysics. This Work is indispensable to all serious readers in this interdisciplinary...
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014. — 4056 p. Comprehensive Biomedical Physics is a new reference work that provides the first point of entry to the literature for all scientists interested in biomedical physics. It is of particularly use for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of medical biophysics. This Work is indispensable to all serious readers in this interdisciplinary...
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014. — 4056 p. Comprehensive Biomedical Physics is a new reference work that provides the first point of entry to the literature for all scientists interested in biomedical physics. It is of particularly use for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of medical biophysics. This Work is indispensable to all serious readers in this interdisciplinary...
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014. — 4056 p. Comprehensive Biomedical Physics is a new reference work that provides the first point of entry to the literature for all scientists interested in biomedical physics. It is of particularly use for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of medical biophysics. This Work is indispensable to all serious readers in this interdisciplinary...
Elsevier, 2014. — 4056 p. — ISBN: 9780444536327. Biomedical Physics is a new reference work that provides the first point of entry to the literature for all scientists interested in biomedical physics. It is of particularly use for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of medical biophysics. This Work is indispensable to all serious readers in this interdisciplinary...
Springer, 2018. — 134 p. — (SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences). — ISBN: 3319938932. This book summarizes what is currently known about gravity sensing and response mechanisms in microorganisms, fungi, lower and higher plants; starting from the historical eye-opening experiments from the 19th century up to today's extremely rapid advancing cellular, molecular and...
Springer, 2018. — 134 p. — (SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences). — ISBN: 3319938932. This book summarizes what is currently known about gravity sensing and response mechanisms in microorganisms, fungi, lower and higher plants; starting from the historical eye-opening experiments from the 19th century up to today's extremely rapid advancing cellular, molecular and...
New York: Springer, 2013. — 239 p. This book models an idealized neuron as being driven by basic electrical elements, the goal being to systematically characterize the logical properties of neural pulses. In order to constitute a system, neurons as pulsating devices may be represented using novel circuit elements as delineated in this book. A plausible brain system is implied...
NTech, 2012. - 474 p. - The objective of this book is to highlight some of the latest approaches in the study of protein interactions, including modulation of protein interactions, development of analytical techniques, etc. Collectively they demonstrate the importance and the possibility for the further investigation and modulation of protein interactions as technology is...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2000. — 286 p. This book describes the physical microenvironment of living organisms. It presents a simplified discussion of heat and mass transfer models and applies them to exchange processes between organisms and their surroundings. Emphasis is placed on teaching the student how to calculate actual transfer rates, rather than just studying the...
Oxford University Press, 2012. - 364 p. Many current questions in biology are probed by using a range of biophysical methods, often in tandem. These increasingly powerful and sophisticated tools allow us to study the structure and dynamics of the complicated mixture of interacting molecules that make up the living cell. Biophysical Techniques explains in a readily-accessible...
San Diego: Academic Press, 1994. - 371 p. Contents of Volume 2 Sources and Characteristics of Electric and Magnetic Fields in the Environment Radiofrequency Radiation in the Environment: Sources, Exposure Standards, and Related Issues The Thermal Noise Limit for Threshold Effects of Electric and Magnetic Fields in Biological Systems The Influence of Electric Fields on...
San Diego: Academic Press, 1994. - 352 p. Contents of Volume 1 Effect of Electrical Fields on Neuronal Growth and Regeneration Therapeutic Uses of Electric and Magnetic Fields in Orthopedics Magnetic Source Imaging Electric Field-Induced Calcium Flux and Changes in Cell Shape, Motility, and Cytoskeleton, In Vitro Systems for the Study of Electromagnetic Effects on Bone and...
Global Media, 2009, 288 p. Biophysics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary area of research that combines concepts in physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and biology. It seeks to understand biomolecular systems and explain biological function in terms of molecular structure, structural organisation, and dynamic behaviour at various levels of complexity (from single...
Springer, 2008. - 551 p. - During teaching NMR to students and researchers, we felt the need for a text-book which can cover modern trends in the application of NMR to biological systems. This book caters to the needs of: (i) graduate students who mostly learn such techniques from senior post-docs in the laboratory; (ii) those who are not experts in NMR but wish to understand...
Elsevier, 2005. - 379 p. - Lecture Notes of the Les Houches School of Physics: Volume 82, August 2004. This book is dedicated to the multiple aspects, that is, biological, physical and computational of DNA and RNA molecules. These molecules, central to vital processes, have been experimentally studied by molecular biologists for five decades since the discovery of the structure...
Article. Material Science and engineering R 36 (2002) 143-206. Annotation: Plasma-surface modification (PSM) is an effective and economical surface treatment technique for many materials and of growing interests in biomedical engineering. This article reviews the various common plasma techniques and experimental methods as applied to biomedical materials research, such as...
Springer, 2007. — 653 p. Ion channels are biological nanotubes that are formed by membrane proteins. Because ion channels regulate all electrical activities in living cells, understanding their mechanisms at a molecular level is a fundamental problem in biology. This book deals with recent breakthroughs in ion-channel research that have been brought about by the combined effort...
InTech, 2012, 272 p., ISBN: 953100904, 9789535100904 This volume brings together some of over 200-year-old study traditions for readers through a collection of chapters written by international authorities. Novice and expert will find this book bridges scientific revolutions in organismic biology, membrane physiology, and molecular biology to advance the discipline of...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. — 635 p. — (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics) — ISBN: 9783319306452 In this book, physics in its many aspects (thermodynamics, mechanics, electricity, fluid dynamics) is the guiding light on a fascinating journey through biological systems, providing ideas, examples and stimulating reflections for undergraduate...
New York: Springer, 2016. - 635 p. Introduces biophysics with an engaging and readable style, while maintaining scientific rigour Offers a wide subject coverage, with a unique macro-micro-macro logical path Uses a minimum of maths and molecular chemistry, while providing essential knowledge of cell and structural biology Enriched with more than 200 figures and diagrams, and...
Nova Science Publishers, 2010. - 309 p. Photobiology is the scientific study of the interactions of light and living organisms. The last decades have witnessed great strides in understanding the biological effects of light from the molecular all the way up to the whole organism level. Much of the boost for advancing the science of photobiology came from the dramatic increase...
Academic Press, Elsevier, 2008. — 665 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-372521-9 Methods in Cell Biology, Vol.89 Driven in part by the development of genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics as new disciplines, there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in physical methods to investigate macromolecular structure and function in the context of living cells. This volume in Methods in...
Springer, 2017. - 342 p. This is the only book which deals with the correlatory comparison between hierarchical living systems and inorganic physical ones. The culmination of the book is the proposition of research to discover and understand the natural underlying level of organization which produces the descriptive commonality of life and physics. Traditional science...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2002. — 395 p. Biophysics: An Introduction , is a concise balanced introduction to this subject. Written in an accessible and readable style, the book takes a fresh, modern approach with the author successfully combining key concepts and theory with relevant applications and examples drawn from the field as a whole. Beginning with a brief introduction to...
Lecture course. — Wiley, 2002. — 397 p. This book is based on the course in biophysics that I have taught for the past two decades at the Danish Technical University, and it should be suitable for similar courses at other places of higher education. Exercises Further reading Chemical Binding Energies, Forces and Bonds Rates of Reaction Transport Processes Some Techniques and...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. - 194 p. Illustrating the development of Brownian ratchets, from their foundations, to their role in the description of life at the molecular scale and in the design of artificial nano-machinery, this text will appeal to both advanced graduates and researchers entering the field. Providing a self-contained introduction to Brownian ratchets,...
CRC Press, 2019. — 355 p. New experimental techniques in immunology have produced large and complex data sets that require quantitative modeling for analysis. This book provides a complete overview of computational immunology, from basic concepts to mathematical modeling at the single molecule, cellular, organism, and population levels. It showcases modern mechanistic models...
Wiley, 2014. - 381 p. - With a focus on practical applications of biophysical techniques, this book links fundamental biophysics to the process of biopharmaceutical development. - Helps formulation and analytical scientists in pharma and biotech better understand and use biophysical methods - Chapters organized according to the sequential nature of the drug development process...
4th Edition. — Elsevier, 2013. — 329 p. The fourth edition of Physics for Biology and Medicine, covers topics in physics as they apply to the life sciences, specifically medicine, physiology, nursing and other applied health fields. This concise introductory paperback surveys and relates basic physics to living systems, encompassing solid mechanics, fluid mechanics,...
3rd edition, Academic Press, Elsevier, 2008, 328 p., ISBN: 0123694116 Physics for Biology and Medicine, Third Edition covers topics in physics as they apply to the life sciences, specifically medicine, physiology, nursing and other applied health fields. This concise introductory paperback surveys and relates basic physics to living systems. It discusses biological systems that...
5th Edition. — Academic Press, 2019. — 353 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-813716-1. A best-selling resource now in its fifth edition, Paul Davidovits’ Physics in Biology and Medicine provides a high-quality and highly relevant physics grounding for students working toward careers in the medical and related professions. The text does not assume a prior background in physics, but provides...
Springer, 2003. — 270 p. The technique of chlorophyll fluorescence has a relatively short history, beginning with the observations by Kautsky (Kautsky and Hirsch, 1931). Since that time there have been several· reviews devoted to the subject, with most of them highly theoretical (Bohlar-Nordenkampf and Oquist, 1993; Dau, 1994; Schreiber et aI. , 1994). There have also been many...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1984. —- 207 p. DeVault's book is intended to acquaint graduate students and interested senior scientists with developments in the last 20 years concerning quantummechanical tunneling in biological systems. Although the book stresses electron tunneling, there is also some mention made of molecular tunneling.
Cambridge University Press, 2012. - 315 p. - Specifically tailored to life science students, this textbook explains quantitative aspects of human biophysics with examples drawn from contemporary physiology, genetics and nanobiology. It outlines important physical ideas, equations and examples at the heart of contemporary physiology, along with the organization necessary to...
Springer, 2013. — 325 p. When quantum mechanics was first proposed a century ago, nobody could have anticipated how deeply it would affect our lives. Today, we are connected and powered through devices whose existence is predicated on the basic principles of this strange physics. Not even the biological sciences have escaped its reach. As scientists query the deepest mysteries...
Tokyo, Springer, 2010. - 157 p. The monograph is devoted to the consideration of electrical phenomena in a neuron from the standpoint of the theory of dynamical systems using the method of computer analysis of bifurcations. The classical Hodgkin-Huxley model and its generalizations are investigated. The processes in the heart muscle are considered. For neurophysiologists with a...
The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017. — 275 p. Exploring current themes in modern computational and membrane protein biophysics, this book presents a comprehensive account of the fundamental principles underlying different methods and techniques used to describe the intriguing mechanisms by which membrane proteins function. The book discusses the experimental approaches...
Wiley, 2011. - 525 p. - This thoroughly updated version of the German authoritative work on self-organization has been completely rewritten by internationally renowned experts and experienced book authors to also include a review of more recent literature. It retains the original enthusiasm and fascination surrounding thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium, synergetics, and...
Academic Press, 2012. - 1673 p. - Biophysics is a rapidly-evolving interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology. Biophysics encompasses many disciplines, including physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, biochemistry, medicine, pharmacology, physiology, and neuroscience, and it is essential that scientists...
Academic Press, 2012. - 1535 p. - Biophysics is a rapidly-evolving interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology. Biophysics encompasses many disciplines, including physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, biochemistry, medicine, pharmacology, physiology, and neuroscience, and it is essential that scientists...
Springer, 2017. - 224 p. This volume focuses on the modulation of biological membranes by specific biophysical properties. The readers are introduced to emerging biophysical approaches that mimick specific states (like membrane lipid asymmetry, membrane curvature, lipid flip-flop, lipid phase separation) that are relevant to the functioning of biological membranes. The first...
Humana Press, 2009. — 337 p. Handbook of Modern Biophysics, Volume 2 This is the second book in the Handbook Of Modern Biophysics series. The Handbook of Modern Biophysics: Biomembrane Frontiers: Nanostructures, Models, and the Design of Life will focus on frontiers in biomembranes, a pertinent topic in modern biophysics. All contributors lead the membrane research field as...
Springer, 2018. - 167 p. The book explores the phenomenon of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), the huge amplification of Raman signal from molecules in the proximity of a metallic nanostructured surface, allowing readers to gain an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms affecting the spectroscopic response of SERS-active systems for effective applications. SERS...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. — 436 p. — ISBN10: 3319308513 This book focuses primarily on the role of interfacial forces in understanding biological phenomena at the molecular scale. By providing a suitable statistical mechanical apparatus to handle the biomolecular interface, the book becomes uniquely positioned to address core problems in molecular...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. – 483 p. – ISBN10: 3319308513 This book focuses primarily on the role of interfacial forces in understanding biological phenomena at the molecular scale. By providing a suitable statistical mechanical apparatus to handle the biomolecular interface, the book becomes uniquely positioned to address core problems in molecular...
Springer, 1997. - 363 p. - This book contains pedagogical introductions to a selection of the most exciting subjects in current biological physics: - Sorting DNA on a microchip: a first step towards miniature laboratories on a chip. - Modeling protein folding, structure, and motion. - Physics of organelles: mechanical characteristics of molecular motors; dynamics of...
Springer, Berlin, 2002. — 578 p. — ISBN: 3540441328, 9783540441328. Aimed at those working to enter this rapidly developing field, this volume on biological physics is written in a pedagogical style by leading scientists giving explanations that take their starting point where any physicist can follow and end at the frontier of research in biological physics. These lectures...
Cambridge University Press, 2005, 337 p. During development cells and tissues undergo changes in pattern and form that employ a wider range of physical mechanisms than at any other time in an organism's life. This book demonstrates how physics can be used to analyze these biological phenomena. Written to be accessible to both biologists and physicists, major stages and...
Wiley, 2010. - 468 p. - This book aims to demystify fundamental biophysics for students in the health and biosciences required to study physics and to understand the mechanistic behaviour of biosystems. The text is well supplemented by worked conceptual examples that will constitute the main source for the students, while combining conceptual examples and practice problems with...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. — 233 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 752). — ISBN: 978-3-540-78765-5 (eBook), 978-3-642-09757-7 (Softcover), 978-3-540-78764-8 (Hardcover). The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific community. It has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary field,...
Springer, 2010. - 424 p. - Physics and the life sciences have established new connections within the past few decades, resulting in biological physics as an established subfield with strong groups working in many physics departments. These interactions between physics and biology form a two-way street with physics providing new tools and concepts for understanding life, while...
Springer Spektrum, 2013. — 274 p. — ISBN: 3642346650 Ein Physikbuch für Studierende der Lebenswissenschaften, in dem das Leben im Vordergrund steht: Zusammenhänge verstehen statt reine Fakten pauken Wer wissen will, wie das Leben vom Biomolekül über die Zelle bis zum Menschen funktioniert, muss daher die Grundzüge der physikalischen Gesetze, nach denen es arbeitet, verstehen....
Berlin: Springer, 1988. — 274 p. This book presents an extensive treatment of the introduction of modern physical concepts into biology. In particular, the concept of coherence finds wide applications and yields novel results in context with multiple problems as they arise in biology: these include long range resonant cellular effects and resonant interactions of biological...
N.-Y.: CRC Press, 2000. - 376 p. How do brain, mind, matter, and energy interact? Can we create a comprehensive model of the mind and brain, their interactions, and their influences? Synthesizing research from neuroscience, physics, biology, systems science, information science, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, The Neurophysics of Human Behavior advances a unified theory...
2nd Edition. — Springer, 2018. — 199 p. — (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering). — ISBN: 978-3-319-99318-8. The ability to grow stem cells in the laboratory and to guide their maturation to functional cells allows us to study the underlying mechanisms that govern vasculature differentiation and assembly in health and disease. Accumulating evidence suggests...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2011. - 253 p. Because of their ability to differentiate and develop into functional vasculature, stem cells hold tremendous promise for therapeutic applications. However, the scientific understanding and the ability to engineer these cellular systems is still in its early stages, and must advance significantly for the therapeutic potential of...
Springer, 2011. — 797 p. — (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) — ISBN: 978-1-4419-7835-6 The ability to grow stem cells in the laboratory and to guide their maturation to functional cells allows us to study the underlying mechanisms that govern vasculature differentiation and assembly in health and disease. Accumulating evidence suggests that early stages...
IOS Press, 2012. - 202 p. Raman spectroscopy has been known and used as a technique for 80 years, originally for the study of inorganic substances. Recent advances in underlying technology, such as lasers, detectors, filters and components, have transformed the technique into a very effective modern tool for studying complex biological problems. Professor Mahmoud Ghomi (of the...
Springer, 2001. - 375 p. - Biophysics is the science of physical principles underlying the "phenomenon of life" on all levels of organization. This book begins by explaining molecular and ionic interactions, movements, excitation and energy transfer, and the self-organization of supramolecular structures. Then the biological organism is introduced as a non-equilibrium system.
Wiley, 2005. - 581 p. - With contributions by more than 30 expert researchers, this handbook covers the whole spectrum from chemistry to cell biology and from theory to application. In so doing, it deals with a broad range of topics from the chemistry and biophysics of caged compounds to their application in time-resolved studies, comparing the properties of different caging...
New York: Springer, 2008. — 330 p. — ISBN: 978-0-387-72645-8. Radiation Oncology: A Physicist's-Eye View was written for both physicists and medical oncologists with the aim of helping them approach the use of radiation in the treatment of cancer with understanding, confidence, and imagination. The book will let practitioners in one field understand the problems of, and find...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. - 630 p. This book addresses the molecular bases of some of the most important biochemical rhythms known at the cellular level. The approach rests on the analysis of theoretical models closely related to experimental observations. Among the main rhythms considered are glycolytic oscillations observed in yeast and muscle, oscillations...
McGraw-Hill, 2011. - 400 p. Learn BIOPHYSICS without expending a lot of ENERGY! Interested in unraveling the physics of living things? Here's your starting point. Biophysics Demystified is the fast and easy way to understand this fascinating topic. Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide begins with an introduction to the science of biophysics, covering...
Plenum Press, 1983. — 664 p. During the last 35 years, there has been considerable develop ment and increase in the number of devices that emit nonionizing radiant energies. These energies such as radiofrequency including microwaves are used in all sectors of our society for military, industrial. telecommunications, medical, and consumer applications. This increase in sources...
4th Edition. — CRC Press, 2019. — 524 p. The two volumes of this new edition of the Handbook cover the basic biological, medical, physical, and electrical engineering principles. They also include experimental results concerning how electric and magnetic fields affect biological systems — both as potential hazards to health and potential tools for medical treatment and...
N.-Y.: Academic Press, 2015(!). - 584 p. Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics, 3rd Edition paves an easier and more efficient way for people seeking basic knowledge about this discipline. This book's focus is on systems with galvanic contact with tissue, with specific detail on the geometry of the measuring system. Both authors are internationally recognized experts in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2010, 232 p., ISBN: 0521882400 The introduction of femtosecond pulse lasers has provided numerous new methods for non-destructive diagnostic analysis of biological samples. This book is the first to provide a focused and systematic treatment of femtosecond biophotonic methods. Each chapter combines theory, practice and applications, walking the...
CRC Press, 2019. — 387 p. This book provides a timely summary of physical modeling approaches applied to biological datasets that describe conformational properties of chromosomes in the cell nucleus. Chapters explain how to convert raw experimental data into 3D conformations, and how to use models to better understand biophysical mechanisms that control chromosome...
Springer, 2015. - 257 p. - This book aims to educate physical scientists and quantitatively-oriented biologists on the application of physical experimentation and analysis, together with appropriate modeling, to understanding and interpreting microbial chemical communication and especially quorum sensing (QS). Quorum sensing describes a chemical communication behavior that is...
Springer, 2018. — 108 p. — (SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences). This volume of the series Space Life Sciences provides insights into the latest findings of gravity research and the effect of gravity on biological systems, specifically on a cellular and molecular level. It starts by explaining the underlying physics of gravity and presenting some novel ideas on the basic...
13. Auflage. — Springer, 2011. — 397 S. — ISBN13: 978-3-642-16315-9. Besonders bei einem ungeliebten und schwierigen Fach wie Physik sind eine einfache Sprache, gute Erklärungen und viele Beispiele äußerst hilfreich. Mit dem Harten gelingt der Zugang zur dieser schwierigen Materie. Kennt man die physikalischen Grundlagen, ist vieles in der Physiologie und später in der...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 396 p. Biological Thermodynamics provides an introduction to the study of energy transformations for students of the biological sciences. Donald Haynie uses an informal writing style to introduce this core subject in a manner that will appeal to biology and biochemistry undergraduate students. The emphasis of the text is placed on...
Wiley, 2007. - 381 p. - An overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the field of the physics of membranes, including new insights from the past decade. The author uses classical thermal physics and physical chemistry to explain our current understanding of the membrane. He looks at domain and 'raft' formation, and discusses it in the context of thermal...
Wiley, 2014. — 527 p. - Based on each of the authors' roughly forty years of biophysics research and teaching experience, this text instills readers with a deep understanding of the biophysics of macromolecules. It sets a solid foundation in the basics by beginning with core physical concepts such as thermodynamics, quantum chemical models, molecular structure and interactions,...
Springer Verlag, 2009. - 626 p. This book will introduce the reader to the different classes of single-molecule approaches developed over recent years and how these methods can be applied to understand biological systems. Broadly, single-molecule biophysical techniques can be separated into two classes of methods: one that allows us to visualize single molecules, the other to...
Wiley, 2017. - 299 p. Applied Biophysics for Drug Discovery is a guide to new techniques and approaches to identifying and characterizing small molecules in early drug discovery. Biophysical methods are reasserting their utility in drug discovery and through a combination of the rise of fragment-based drug discovery and an increased focus on more nuanced characterisation of...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 512 p. This book provides advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students with a foundation in the basic concepts of molecular and cellular biophysics. Students who have taken physical chemistry and calculus courses will find this book an accessible and valuable aid in learning how these concepts can be used in biological research. The...
CRC Press, 2020. — 309 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-138-29461-5. This book discusses 14 model organisms and are used by thousands of researchers, teachers, and students each year in laboratories and classrooms, around the globe. Though acknowledged in innumerable scientific journal articles, little is generally known about the origin of these collections, how the organisms contained...
Wiley, 2012. — 259 p. This new work is dedicated to glasses and their variants which can be used as biomaterials to repair diseased and damaged tissues. Bio-glasses are superior to other biomaterials in many applications, such as healing bone by signaling stem cells to become bone cells. Key features - First book on biomaterials to focus on bio-glasses - Edited by a leading...
Spriinger, 2019. — 249 p. — (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering). — ISBN: 978-1-4939-9724-4. RNA molecules play key roles in all aspects of cellular life, but to do so efficiently, they must work in synergism with proteins. This book addresses how proteins and RNA interact to carry out biological functions such as protein synthesis, regulation of gene...
Humana Press, 2010. - 250 p. - In keeping with goal and style of the Handbook in Modern Biophysics series, the proposed book will maintain a chapter structure that contains two parts: concepts and biological application. The book also integrates all the chapters into a smooth, continuous discourse. The first and second chapters establish the mathematical methods and theoretical...
Springer Science+Business Media LLC, 2017. — 126 p. — (Handbook of Modern Biophysics 5) — ISBN: 1493967118. Handbook of Modern Biophysics brings current biophysics topics into focus, so that biology, medical, engineering, mathematics, and physical-science students or researchers can learn fundamental concepts and the application of new techniques in addressing biomedical...
Springer, 2013. — 156 p. Volume 4 of Handbook of Modern Biophysics. In keeping with the style of the Handbook of Modern Biophysics, this fourth volume, Application of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Biomedicine, balances the need for physical science/mathematics formalism with a demand for biomedical perspectives. Each chapter divides the presentation into two major parts: the...
Humana Press, 2009, Pages: 240 In the first volume, Fundamental Concepts in Biophysics, the authors lay down a foundation for biophysics study. Rajiv Singh opens the book by pointing to the central importance of "Mathematical Methods in Biophysics." William Fink follows with a discussion on "Quantum Mechanics Basic to Biophysical Methods." Together, these two chapters establish...
CRC Press, 2017. — 237 p. Chlorophyll a fluorescence is a tool for evaluating plant responses to stress conditions. Fluorescence can be used in plant phenotyping and breeding programs to monitor biotic and abiotic stresses including mineral deficiencies, soil salinity, and pathogenic diseases. The book reviews a diversity of instruments available for recording and analyzing...
Wiley, 2005. - 481 p. - The book offers a compelling look at the current challenges facing biomolecular MS and the potential applications that will likely shape its future. This is a systematic summary of biophysical mass spectrometry techniques. Covering the theoretical background and technical aspects of each method, this much-needed reference offers an unparalleled overview...
Springer, 2017. - 390 p. In this book, a wide range subjects in biorheology are dealt with, from fundamentals to applications. The inclusion of quite substantial chapters concerned with application aspects such as the latest studies on foods, cosmetics, personal care products, and biological tissues, related regenerative medicine, is one of the features of the book. For the...
CRC Press, 2016. - 428 p. Nanobiophysics is a new branch of science that operates at the interface of physics, biology, chemistry, material science, nanotechnology, and medicine. This book is the first one devoted to nanobiophysics and introduces this field with a focus on some selected topics related to the physics of biomolecular nanosystems, including nucleosomal DNA and...
InTech, 2012. — 574 p. — ISBN: 9535101918 9789535101918. This book covers a vast variety of topics regarding the current development of both fundamental cryobiology and practical aspects of cryopreservation, and will help the researches to grasp the background, state of the art, and future of this captivating and very important field of Life Sciences. This book is a useful...
Springer, 2005. — 320 p. Textbook for senior students on bioelectromagnetism. Bioelectromagnetics is a relatively new area of science that deals with the interaction of electromagnetic energy with biological systems. Therefore, studies usually are carried out jointly by researchers from both biological/medical sciences and engineering/physical sciences: expertise in both areas...
Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi 2021. 281 p. The lecture collection book Applied Biophysics is to present fundamental and vital information about biophysics, via the integration of physics and biology into biophysics and is drawn on methods and research of this sciences. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative lecture collection is authored by...
CRC Press, 2006. - 518 p. - Requiring only an introductory background in continuum mechanics, including thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and solid mechanics, Biofluid Dynamics: Principles and Selected Applications contains review, methodology, and application chapters to build a solid understanding of medical implants and devices. For additional assistance, it includes a...
Oxford University Press, 2004. - 578 p. - Neural network research often builds on the fiction that neurons are simple linear threshold units, completely neglecting the highly dynamic and complex nature of synapses, dendrites, and voltage-dependent ionic currents. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons challenges this notion, using richly detailed...
CRC Press, 2006. — 1092 p. The field of isotope effects has expanded exponentially in the last decade, and researchers are finding isotopes increasingly useful in their studies. Bringing literature on the subject up to date, Isotope Effects in Chemistry and Biology covers current principles, methods, and a broad range of applications of isotope effects in the physical,...
Wiley, 2012. - 502 p. - Volume 146 of Advances in Chemical Physics. - The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. This latest volume explores the advent of optical single-molecule spectroscopy, and how atomic force microscopy has empowered novel...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 224 p. The authors explain how the whole dendritic arborization contributes to the generation of various output discharges and elucidate the mechanisms of the transfer function of all dendritic sites. Their alternative modeling approach to conventional models introduces the notion of a functional dendritic space, and they have...
Apple Academic Press, 2013. — 290 p. This book covers a wide scope of biological approaches to such biological phenomena as cell division, motility, collective cell behavior, multicellular structures, morphogenesis, and tumor development. Over the past two decades, biologists have generated large sets of experimental data and discovered a lot of facts that need explanation....
Springer, 2014. - 282 p. - This book provides a molecular view of membrane transport by means of numerous biochemical and biophysical techniques. The rapidly growing numbers of atomic structures of transporters in different conformations and the constant progress in bioinformatics have recently added deeper insights. The unifying mechanism of energized solute transport across...
Kluwer, 2002, 554 p. Volume 17 of Biological Magnetic Resonance (Structure Computation and Dynamics) represents significant advances in the biomolecular NMR field, with emphasis on developments during the recent years. This book brings together some of the world's foremost experts who have provided broad leadership in advancing the field. Volume 17 is devoted to topics on...
Springer, 2009. - 316 p. - Life is produced by the interplay of water and biomolecules. This book deals with the physicochemical aspects of such life phenomena produced by water and biomolecules, and addresses topics including "Protein Dynamics and Functions", "Protein and DNA Folding", and "Protein Amyloidosis". All sections have been written by internationally recognized...
Wiley, 2004. — 276 p. Over the last decade, high-sensitivity calorimetry has developed from a specialist method used mainly by dedicated experts to a major, commercially available tool in the arsenal directed at understanding molecular interactions and stability. Calorimeters have now become commonplace in bioscience laboratories. As a result, the number of those proficient in...
CRC Press, 2016. — 390 p. Biophysics: Tools and Techniques covers the experimental and theoretical tools and techniques of biophysics. It addresses the purpose, science, and application of all physical science instrumentation and analysis methods used in current research labs. The book first presents the historical background, concepts, and motivation for using a physical...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2019. — 161 p. Quantum physics provides the concepts and their mathematical formalization that lend themselves to describe important properties of biological networks topology, such as vulnerability to external stress and their dynamic response to changing physiological conditions. A theory of networks enhanced with mathematical concepts and tools of...
The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2007- 314 p. DOI: 10.1036/0071472177 Applied Biofluid Mechanics begins in Chapter 1 with a review of some of the basics of fluid mechanics, which all mechanical or chemical engineers would learn. It continues with two chapters on cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology followed by a chapter describing hematology and blood rheology. These five chapters...
New York: Wiley, 2015. - 272 p. Discusses the ion fluxes and electron transfer processes in biological membranes and artificial bio-films Provides an in-depth description of the processes at the interface between the membrane/film and substrate electrode Is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive look at how these processes are understood in biology of living cells...
Springer, 2018. - 146 p. This book presents methodological and application research in detecting cellular and molecular biophysical properties based on atomic force microscopy (AFM) nanorobotics. Series methods for in situ label-free visualizing and quantifying the multiple physical properties of single cells and single molecules were developed, including immobilization...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2011. — 215 p. Simulation and Verification of Electronic and Biological Systems provides a showcase for the Circuit and Multi-Domain Simulation Workshop held in San Jose, California, USA, on November 5, 2009. The nine chapters are contributed by experts in the field and provide a broad discussion of recent developments on simulation, modeling and...
Kluwer, 1988. — 355 p. This book is a general introduction into in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence and contains the contributions of the first International Chlorophyll Fluorescence Symposium helding the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, F. R. G. from June 6 to 8, 1988. This Symposium was made possible by a generous support from the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, Hanau, which is...
Springer, 2019. — 303 p. This book presents state-of-the-art experimental and modeling techniques for skin biophysics that are currently used in academic and industrial research. It also identifies current and future challenges, as well as a growing number of opportunities in this exciting research field. The book covers the basics of skin physiology, biology, microstructural...
Springer, 2003. - 223 p. A representative cross-section of elastic biomolecules is covered in this volume, which combines seventeen contributions from leading research groups. State-of-the-art molecular mechanics experiments are described dealing with the elasticity of DNA and nucleoprotein complexes, titin and titin-like proteins in muscle, as well as proteins of the...
Springer, 2018. — 438 p. — (Springer Series in Biomaterials Science and Engineering 10). — ISBN: 978-981-10-5606-2. This is the first-ever book to illustrate the principles and applications of liquid metal biomaterials. Room-temperature liquid metal materials are rapidly emerging as next-generation functional materials that display many unconventional properties superior to...
Springer, 2017. — 307 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-47570-7 This book was written with the aim of widening the reader’s spectrum of knowledge regarding the uses of shock waves in medicine and biology, as well as to contribute to safer and more efficient treatments and encourage scientific research. For experts, it may be a stimulus to generate innovative ideas and introduce their...
Springer, 2017. — 412 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-47570-7. This book was written with the aim of widening the reader’s spectrum of knowledge regarding the uses of shock waves in medicine and biology, as well as to contribute to safer and more efficient treatments and encourage scientific research. For experts, it may be a stimulus to generate innovative ideas and introduce their...
Taylor and Francis Group, LLC., 2010. – 396 p. – ISBN: 1439803560. Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life. The book develops a variety of approaches that help to illuminate ways in which to address deeper questions with respect to the...
CRC Press, 2018. - 251 p. This book gives an accessible, detailed overview on techniques of single molecule biophysics (SMB), showing how they are applied to numerous biological problems associated with understanding the molecular mechanisms of DNA replication, transcription, and translation, as well as functioning of molecular machines. It covers major single molecule imaging...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 600 p. This book provides a general view of bioelectromagnetism and describes it as an independent discipline. It begins with an historical account of the many innovations and innovators on whose work the field rests. This is accompanied by a discussion of both the theories and experiments which were contributed to the development of the field....
2nd Edition. - CRC Press, 2013. - 509 p. - Lipid science and technology has grown exponentially since the turn of the millennium. The replacement of unhealthy fats in the foods we eat, and of petroleum-based ingredients in the cosmetics we use, is a top priority for consumers, government, and industry alike. Particularly for the food industry, removing trans fats and reducing...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2017. - 444 p. Dosimetry refers to the calculation and assessment of the radiation dose received by the human body. The proposed book will place emphasis on the existence of physical and biophysical dosimetry. It will be discussed for the proper description and evaluation of the signal at the power generation system. It will cover in detail 10 different...
N.-Y.: CRC Press, 2015. - 476 p. Through a biophysical approach, Electromagnetic Fields in Biology and Medicine provides state-of-the-art knowledge on both the biological and therapeutic effects of Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs). The reader is guided through explanations of general problems related to the benefits and hazards of EMFs, step-by-step engineering processes, and...
2nd edition. — NY.: Academic Press, 2008. — 484 p. Bioelectricity (or bioelectromagnetism) relates to the study of biological electrical currents, and bioimpedance deals with the measurement of electrical conductivity. They are intimately linked to biomedical engineering, with major significance for development of novel medical devices, as well as the study of biological...
Academic Press, 2 edition, 2008. - 488 p. - ISBN10: 0123740045 Bioelectricity (or bioelectromagnetism) relates to the study of biological electrical currents, and bioimpedance deals with the measurement of electrical conductivity. They are intimately linked to biomedical engineering, with major significance for development of novel medical devices, as well as the study of...
Nova Science Publishers, 2011. — 324 p/ The term 'molecular recognition' refers to the specific interaction between two or more molecules through noncovalent bonding. This book presents research in the study of molecular recognition, including next generation molecular imprinted polymers; applications of molecular imprinting; recent advances in DNA-Ligand molecular recognition...
Crown Publishers, 2014. — 348 p. Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like...
Springer, 2017. - 2876 p. This major reference work is a one-shot knowledge base on electroporation and the use of pulsed electric fields of high intensity and their use in biology, medicine, biotechnology, and food and environmental technologies. The Handbook offers a widespread and well-structured compilation of 156 chapters ranging from the foundations to applications in...
Kluwer, 1990. — 299 p. The living organisms and systems possess extraordinary properties of programmed development, differentiation, growth, response, movement, duplication of key molecules and in m any cases higher mental functions. But the organisms are physical objects so they must follow laws of physics yet they do not seem to obey them. Physicists cannot easily persuade...
InTech, 2012, 220 p., ISBN: 9535103769 9789535103769| PDF14 MB Wide array of subjects from molecular, physiological and structural are covered in this book. Most of these chapters are oriented toward new techniques or the application of techniques in the novel fields. The contributions from scientists and experts from different continents and countries focuss on major aspects...
New York: InTech, 2016. 232 p. Wide array of subjects from molecular, physiological and structural are covered in this book. Most of these chapters are oriented toward new techniques or the application of techniques in the novel fields. The contributions from scientists and experts from different continents and countries focuss on major aspects of biophysics. The book covers a...
Springer, 2017. — 282 p. — ISBN: 978-981-10-4967-5 The present book is the beginning of a new chapter in my academic journey. A successful accomplished research career ignited within me the desire to disseminate the knowledge to young students which are desirous of building a career in science. I joined the university structure and started teaching biophysics and structural...
Hoboken: CRC Press, 2012. — 658 p. Increasing numbers of physicists, chemists, and mathematicians are moving into biology, reading literature across disciplines, and mastering novel biochemical concepts. To succeed in this transition, researchers must understand on a practical level what is experimentally feasible. The number of experimental techniques in biology is vast and...
2nd edition. — Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2017. — 791 p. Provides a complete introduction to molecular biology techniques, including optional advanced techniques and a laboratory manual for experimental practice. Includes more chapter problems and questions incorporated for testing and self-study. Brand new chapters on gene expression techniques (microarrays, mRNA and RNA...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. - 196 p. - Introduction to Experimental Biophysics - A Laboratory Guide presents wet lab methods for courses in biophysics or molecular biology. A companion to the author’s highly praised An Introduction to Experimental Biophysics: Biological Methods for Physical Scientists, this manual offers a flexible course plan that permits completion of the...
Second Edition. — CRC Press, 2018. — 791 p. — (Foundations of biochemistry and biophysics). — ISBN: 978-1-138-08815-3. This fully updated and expanded text is the best starting point for any student or researcher in the physical sciences to gain firm grounding in the techniques employed in molecular biophysics and quantitative biology. It includes brand new chapters on gene...
3rd Edition. - CRC Press, 2019. - 328 p. Basic Introduction to Bioelectromagnetics, Third Edition, is a primary source for medical technologists and life scientists seeking to understand how electromagnetic fields interact with the body, and how they are used in medical applications. Instead of the complex math commonly used when analyzing electromagnetics, this book uses...
Springer, 2013. — 298 p. This book can be used to provide insight into this important application of biophysics for those who are planning a career in protein therapeutic development, and for those outside this area who are interested in understanding it better. The initial chapters describe the underlying theory, and strengths and weaknesses of the different techniques...
U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, National Institutes Of Health, National Institute Of General Medical Sciences, 2005. — 84 p. Preface: The Microscopic Metropolis Inside You An Owner’s Guide To The Cell Cells 101: Business Basics On The Job : Cellular Specialties Cellular Reproduction: Multiplication By Division The Last Chapter: Cell Aging And Death
Updated 1st Edition. - Freeman, 2008. - 662 p. Biological Physics focuses on new results in molecular motors, self-assembly, and single-molecule manipulation that have revolutionized the field in recent years, and integrates these topics with classical results. The text also provides foundational material for the emerging field of nanotechnology. Biological Physics is built...
W. H. Freeman and Company, 2015. - 365 p. - Written for intermediate-level undergraduates pursuing any science or engineering major, Physical Models of Living Systems helps students develop many of the competencies that form the basis of the new MCAT2015. The only prerequisite is first-year physics. With the more advanced "Track-2" sections at the end of each chapter, the book...
New York: W. H. Freeman, 2014. — 365 p. Written for intermediate-level undergraduates pursuing any science or engineering major, Physical Models of Living Systems helps students develop many of the competencies that form the basis of the new MCAT2015. The only prerequisite is first-year physics. With the more advanced "Track-2" sections at the end of each chapter, the book can...
Academic Press, 2002. - 333 p. - This new edition of Bioenergetics presents a clear and up-to-date explanation of the chemiosmotic theory and covers mitochondria, bacteria, and chloroplasts. It takes account of the many newly determined structures, such as ATP synthase and the two photosystems of photosynthesis, that provide molecular insight into chemiosmotic energy...
N.-Y: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. - 106 p. In this monograph, a mathematician and a neurobiologist join forces to address one of the most crucial and controversial scientific questions of our times: can the exquisite capacities of the human brain be simulated by any digital computer? By combining mathematical, computational, neurobiological and...
Springer, 1998. — 200 p. This comprehensive guide to the biophysics of metalloproteins and the mechanisms of charge transfer through systems involving them, aims to outline a summary of scientific results obtained by the world-wide research in recent years. The volume appears at a time of significant progress within the field, when technologies derived from it are granted...
Springer, 2013. - 238 p. - This book provides a concise overview of the photophysics and spectroscopy of biochromophore ions. The book "Photophysics of Ionic Biochromophores" summarizes important recent advances in the spectroscopy of isolated biomolecular ions in vacuo, which has within the last decade become a highly active research field. Advanced instrumental apparatus and...
3rd edition: Springer, 2007 — 308 p. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering Medical practitioners, scientists and graduate students alike will find this exhaustive survey a vital learning tool. It provides a thorough description of the fundamentals and applications in the field of laser-tissue interactions. Basic concepts such as the optical and thermal...
Springer, 2020. — 137 p. — (Springer Theses). — ISBN: 9813299975. This thesis focuses on experimental studies on collective motion using swimming bacteria as model active-matter systems. It offers comprehensive reviews of state-of-the-art theories and experiments on collective motion from the viewpoint of nonequilibrium statistical physics. The author presents his experimental...
Springer, 2020. — 137 p. — (Springer Theses). — ISBN: 9813299975. This thesis focuses on experimental studies on collective motion using swimming bacteria as model active-matter systems. It offers comprehensive reviews of state-of-the-art theories and experiments on collective motion from the viewpoint of nonequilibrium statistical physics. The author presents his experimental...
Swansea University. — 106 p. Introduction, Anatomy and Physiology Biofluids, Blood Vessels and Respiratory System Walls Governing Equations Analytical Forms Computational Methods Numerical Modeling of Wave Propagation Three Dimensional Problems.
Springer, 2014. — 51 p. The occurrence of hysteresis phenomena has been traditionally associated with mechanical and magnetic properties of materials. However, recent studies on the dynamics of biological processes suggest switch-like behavior that could be described by mathematical models of hysteresis. This book presents the milestones and perspectives of biological...
Springer, 1990. — 291 p. — ISBN10: 0387513701; ISBN13: 978-0387513706. Vertebrate Flight presents the basic principles of animal flight including the main requirements for body functions and morphology and the main correlations between structure, form and function in ecological and evolutionary perspectives. The main topics cover such aspects as flight mechanics and...
CRC Press, 2011. - 578 p. - Quantitative Understanding of Biosystems: An Introduction to Biophysics focuses on the behavior and properties of microscopic structures that underlie living systems. It clearly describes the biological physics of macromolecules, subcellular structures, and whole cells, including interactions with light. Providing broad coverage of physics,...
Springer, 2014. — 95 p. — (Springer Briefs in Physics) — ISBN: 978-1-4614-8899-644; 978-1-4614-8898-9. This brief provides an in-depth overview of the physics of hadron therapy, ranging from the history to the latest contributions to the subject. It covers the mechanisms of protons and carbon ions at the molecular level (DNA breaks and proteins 53BP1 and RPA), the physics and...
National Academy of Sciences Press, 2010, 106 p. Committee on Forefronts of Science at the Interface of Physical and Life Sciences; National Research Council This book discusses how some of the most important scientific and societal challenges can be addressed, at least in part, by collaborative research that lies at the intersection of traditional disciplines, including...
Springer, 2015. — 184 p. This book covers the latest developments in the physical biology of proteins and peptides. Key insights into microscopic and macroscopic approaches to describe biologically relevant macromolecules and their interactions are provided. This book also covers a wide range of tools, including theoretical methods as statistical mechanics, normal mode...
ITexLi, 2016. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-953-51-0006-5 953-51-0006-8. This book can be considered a valuable addition to the current knowledge in subjects related to bioelectricity from plants to the human heart. The outstanding evolution of recording techniques paved the way for better understanding of electrophysiological phenomena within the human organs, including the...
Academic Press, 2016. — 372 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-802408-9. Biofluid Mechanics is a throrough reference to the entire field. Written with engineers and clinicians in mind, this book covers physiology and the engineering aspects of biofluids. Effectively bridging the gap between engineers’ and clinicians’ knowledge bases, the text provides information on physiology for engineers...
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. - 253 p. Understanding the role of aquatic biota and the impact of pollution and chemical substances that enter aquatic ecosystems is crucial to the assessment, prevention, and remediation of damaged environments. Biological Effects of Surfactants synthesizes the most important findings from hundreds of articles and the author's current...
Academic Press, 2015. - 513 p. - Volume 125 of Biophysical Methods in Cell Biology. - This new volume of Methods in Cell Biology looks at methods for analyzing of biophysical methods in cell biology. - Chapters cover such topics as AFM, traction force microscopy, digital holographic microscopy, single molecule imaging, video force microscopy and 3D multicolor super-resolution...
Springer, 2004. — 861 p. The book highlights chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence as a convenient, non-invasive, highly sensitive, rapid and quantitative probe of oxygenic photosynthesis. Thirty-one chapters, authored by 58 international experts, provide a solid foundation of the basic theory, as well as of the application of the rich information contained in the Chl a fluorescence...
Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, 2002, 253 p. This book addresses the needs of biologists, biochemists, and medical biophysicists for an introduction to the subject. The text is based on a one-semester course offered to graduate students of life sciences, and covers a wide range of topics from quantum mechanics to pre-biotic evolution. To understand the topics, only basic...
Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, 2002. — 253 p. This book addresses the needs of biologists, biochemists, and medical biophysicists for an introduction to the subject. The text is based on a one-semester course offered to graduate students of life sciences, and covers a wide range of topics from quantum mechanics to pre-biotic evolution. To understand the topics, only...
Wiley, 2008. - 369 p. - Meeting the need for a book on developing and using new methods to investigate membrane proteins, this is the first of its kind to present the full range of novel techniques in one resource. Top researchers from around the world focus on the physical principles exploited in the different techniques, and provide examples of how these can bring about...
Oxford University Press, 2016. - 463 p. - Lecture Notes of the Les Houches School of Physics: Volume 102, July 2014. The book gathers lecture notes of courses given at the 2014 summer school on integrated biology in Les Houches, France, Session CII. It addresses an emerging field ranging from molecules to cells and to organisms. Through examples it presents a new way of...
Garland Science, 2008. - 827 p. Physical Biology of the Cell is a biophysics textbook that explores how the basic tools and insights of physics and mathematics can illuminate the study of molecular and cell biology. Drawing on key examples and seminal experiments from cell biology, the book demonstrates how quantitative models can help refine our understanding of existing...
2nd Edition. - Garland Science, 2013. - 1089 p. - Physical Biology of the Cell is a textbook for a first course in physical biology or biophysics for undergraduate or graduate students. It 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...
New York, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007. - 528 p. This text is an introduction to electrophysiology, following a quantitative approach. The first chapter summarizes much of the mathematics required in the following chapters. The second chapter presents a very concise overview of the principles of electrical fields and the concomitant current flow in conducting...
Taylor & Francis, 2006, Pages: 314 Soft condensed matter physics, which emerged as a distinct branch of physics in the 1990s, studies complex fluids: liquids in which structures with length scale between the molecular and the macroscopic exist. Polymers, liquid crystals, surfactant solutions, and colloids fall into this category. Physicists deal with properties of soft matter...
Springer, 2003. - 499 p. - Most of the specialists working in this interdisciplinary field of physics, biology, biophysics and medicine are associated with "The International Institute of Biophysics" (Iib), in Neuss, Germany, where basic research and possibilities for applications are coordinated. The growth in this field is indicated by the increase in financial support,...
Wiley, 2012. - 2007 p. - This new handbook covers the world of biophotonics not only geographically - with the editors coming from different continents - but also in terms of content, since the authors come from the whole spectrum of biophotonic basic and applied research. Designed to set the standard for the scientific community, these three volumes break new ground by...
Springer, 2013. — 94 p. In recent years, the fabrication of nanomaterials and exploration of their properties have attracted the attention of various scientific disciplines such as biology, physics, chemistry, and engineering. Although nanoparticulate systems are of significant interest in various scientific and technological areas, there is little known about the safety of...
Oxford University Press, 2015. – 432 p. – ISBN: 0199686513. The study of dielectric properties of biological systems and their components is important not only for fundamental scientific knowledge but also for its applications in medicine, biology, and biotechnology. The associated technique - known as dielectric spectroscopy - has enabled researchers to quickly and accurately...
Artech House, Boston, 2008. — 155 p. — ISBN: 1596932406 Engineering in Medicine & Biology Here's the first state-of-the-art design reference on artificial implant surfaces. It takes you to the cutting-edge of efforts to understand and control the constant interactions taking place between biomaterials and biological media. The book explores processes and surface modifications...
Springer, 2010. - 385 p. - Muscle contraction has been the focus of scientific investigation for more than two centuries, and major discoveries have changed the field over the years. Early in the twentieth century, Fenn (1924, 1923) showed that the total energy liberated during a contraction (heat + work) was increased when the muscle was allowed to shorten and perform work....
N.-Y.: Springer, 1998. — 563 p. Electric currents and electromagnetic fields have been applied to biological systems, particularly humans, with both therapeutic and pathological results. Applied Bioelectricity discusses biological responses to electric currents and electromagnetic fields, including medical applications and shock hazards. The book covers fundamental physical and...
Springer, 2019. — 361 p. Multiple senses, like multiple intelligences, are a key to brain variability and therefore human evolution. Besides the traditional five senses (vision, olfaction, gustation, audition, and somatosensory), humans can also perceive the body’s own position (the sense of proprioception) and movement (the vestibular sense). Interoception is the feeling one...
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. — 387 p. Recent years have seen a growing interest in and activity at the interface between physics and biology, with the realization that both subjects have a great deal to learn from and to teach to one another. A particularly promising aspect of this interface concerns the area of cooperative phenomena and phase transitions. The present book...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. - 358 p. - Fueled by more than 30 years of intensive research and debate on the impact of electromagnetic fields (EMF) on everyday life - starting with residential exposure to magnetic fields and the development of childhood cancer in the 70s and continuing with risk of exposure via wireless communications in present day - Epidemiology of...
New York; Dordrecht; Heidelberg; London: Springer, 2011. — XX, 1286 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4419-8118-9; e-ISBN: 978-1-4419-8119-6. Biotransport: Principles and Applications is written primarily for biomedical engineering and bioengineering students at the introductory level, but should prove useful for anyone interested in quantitative analysis of transport in living systems. It is...
Springer, 2014. — 274 p. This book presents concise descriptions and analysis of the classical and modern models used in mathematical biophysics. The authors ask the question "what new information can be provided by the models that cannot be obtained directly from experimental data?" Actively developing fields such as regulatory mechanisms in cells and subcellular systems and...
John Wiley & Sons, 2017. — 633 p. — ISBN10: 1119160251, 13 978-1119160250. The most thorough coverage of biophysics available, in a handy, easy-to-read volume, perfect as a reference for experienced engineers or as a textbook for the novice. Following up on his first book, Fundamentals of Biophysics, the author, a well-known scientist in this area, builds on that foundation by...
Scrivener Publishing, 2014. - 226 p. - Biophysics is a science that comprises theoretical plotting and models based on contemporary physicochemical conceptions. They mirror physical specificity of the molecular organization and elementary processes in living organisms, which in their turn form the molecular basis of biological phenomena. Presentation of a complete course in...
Springer, 2013. — 238 p. This volume, written by experts in the field, discusses the current understanding of the biophysical principles that govern RNA folding, with featured RNAs including the ribosomal RNAs, viral RNAs, and self-splicing introns. In addition to the fundamental features of RNA folding, the central experimental and computational approaches in the field are...
2nd ed. — Springer, 2009. — XXII+700 p. Edited by the 1991 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this Second Edition includes new chapters covering such applications as capacitance measurements; single-cell PCR measurements; whole-cell recording from brain slices in combination with imaging techniques; atomic force microscopy of cells and membranes attached to...
Manglam Publishers, 2008. - 280 p. The Present title"Biology of Physical Science" is an attempt to provide an uptodate Account of the physical processes used in Biological sciences. It is basically designed for students, Research scholars, teachers, biochemists, microbiologists, immunologists and pharmacologists at various universities, Institutions and laboratories. This Book...
2nd Edition. — Springer-Verlag GmbH, Germany, 2017. — 506 p. — (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) — ISBN: 3662556707. This book gives an introduction to molecular biophysics. It starts from material properties at equilibrium related to polymers, dielectrics and membranes. Electronic spectra are developed for the understanding of elementary dynamic...
2nd Edition. — Springer-Verlag GmbH, Germany, 2017. — 506 p. — (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) — ISBN: 3662556707. This book gives an introduction to molecular biophysics. It starts from material properties at equilibrium related to polymers, dielectrics and membranes. Electronic spectra are developed for the understanding of elementary dynamic...
Pan Stanford, 2013. — 415 p. Biophysics is a new way of looking at living matter. It uses quantitative experimental and theoretical methods to open a new window for studying and understanding life processes. This textbook gives compact introductions to the basics of the field, including molecular cell biology and statistical physics. It then presents in-depth discussions of...
Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing, 2014. - 415 p. Molecular Biology of the Cell Statistical Physics Polymer Physics DNA Stochastic Processes RNA and Protein Folding Electrostatics Inside the Cell DNA-Protein Complexes
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013. — 281 p. — (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) — ISBN: 978-3-642-41340-7. Lasers are progressively more used as versatile tools for fabrication purposes. The wide range of available powers, wavelengths, operation modes, repetition rates etc. facilitate the processing of a large spectrum of materials at exceptional...
Springer, 2015. — 129 p. Marco Schröter investigates the influence of the local environment on the exciton dynamics within molecular aggregates, which build, e.g., the light-harvesting complexes of plants, bacteria or algae by means of the hierarchy equations of motion (HEOM) method. He addresses the following questions in detail: How can coherent oscillations within a system...
Urbana: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000. — 211 p. Dynamics under the Influence of Stochastic Forces Newton's Equation and Langevin's Equation Stochastic Differential Equations How to Describe Noise Ito calculus Fokker-Planck Equations Stratonovich Calculus Appendix: Normal Distribution Approximation Stirling's Formula Binomial Distribution Einstein Diffusion...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 1138 p. Our knowledge of biological macromolecules and their interactions is based on the application of physical methods, ranging from classical thermodynamics to recently developed techniques for the detection and manipulation of single molecules. These methods, which include mass spectrometry, hydrodynamics, microscopy, diffraction and...
CRC Press, 2018. - 359 p. This comprehensive reference work details the latest developments in fluorescence imaging and related biological quantification. It explores the most recent techniques in this imaging technology through the utilization and incorporation of quantification analysis which makes this book unique. It also covers super resolution microscopy with the...
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, 2011. - 233 p. - Human biological functions or health care practices have basis of principles of biophysics. Therefore, nurses involved in providing nursing care must understand the physical principles and their applications in health care practices. So that, nurses can assess, plan, implement and evaluate each care intervention more...
CRC Press, 2018. - 279 p. The mechanics underlying the form and structure of biological tissues is being increasingly investigated and appreciated, with new results appearing at a fast pace. Cellular Patterns covers the salient elements of this thriving field of research in a textbook style, including both historic landmark results and recent achievements. By building on...
Singapur: Springer, 2016. — 98 p. This volume presents the proceedings of CLABIO 2015 - II Latin American Conference on Bioimpedance, held in Montevideo, Uruguay - September 30 - October 02, 2015. The works cover a broad range in Biomedical Engineering and Computing, Medical Physics and Medical Sciences, Environment, Biology and Chemistry. The topics are: Bioimpedance...
2nd Edition. — John Wiley & Sons, 2008. – 515 p. This book arises from the experience of teaching undergraduate classes in the biology of sensory systems over many years. It differs from the many other excellent texts in the subject in that, in addition to the neurobiology, it emphasizes evolution, molecular biology and the wider philosophical implications of the subject....
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 311 p. Tools developed by statistical physicists are of increasing importance in the analysis of complex biological systems. Physics in Molecular Biology discusses how physics can be used in modeling life. It begins by summarizing important biological concepts, emphasizing how they differ from the systems normally studied in physics. A...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2010. — 521 p. In considering ways that physics has helped advance biology and medicine, what typically comes to mind are the various tools used by researchers and clinicians. We think of the optics put to work in microscopes, endoscopes, and lasers; the advanced diagnostics permitted through magnetic, x-ray, and ultrasound imaging; and even the...
New York: Wiley-ISTE, 2017. — 415 p. Everyone, whether they like it or not, is exposed to electromagnetic fields, most of the time, at very low levels. In this case, they are inconsequential, but they can cause adverse health effects when they become intense enough. This topic is complex and sensitive. Covering frequencies from 0 Hz to 300 GHz, Human Exposure to Electromagnetic...
Humana Press, 2006. — 226 p. It is now clear that ion channels play essential roles in cell biology and physiology and that their dysfunction is the root cause of many human diseases. In Ion Channels: Methods and Protocols, internationally recognized biomedical scientists describe recent technological breakthroughs and demonstrate their use in successful experimental designs....
MJP Publishers, 2016. — 340 p. — ISBN: 978-81-8094-010-1. Biophysics deals with the role of physical principles in the organization and functioning of living systems. This book narrates the interrelationship among the physical principles, chemical composition and biology of living organisms. The principles and techniques of biophysics are systematically dealt with, making the...
Springer, 2010. — 342 p. Measurements of variable chlorophyll fluorescence have revolutionised global research of photosynthetic bacteria, algae and plants and in turn assessment of the status of aquatic ecosystems, a success that has partly been facilitated by the widespread commercialisation of a suite of chlorophyll fluorometers designed for almost every application in...
Pan Stanford, 2017. — 475 p. — ISBN10: 9814745162. — ISBN13: 978-9814745161. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current progress in muscle contraction and cell motility research. It discusses structural, mechanical, and biochemical characteristics of skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscles, and cell motility. The experimental objects of the studies described in...
Springer, 2018. — 444 p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics). — ISBN: 9402415831. This book aims to cover a broad range of topics in statistical physics, including statistical mechanics (equilibrium and non-equilibrium), soft matter and fluid physics, for applications to biological phenomena at both cellular and macromolecular levels. It is intended to be a graduate level textbook,...
Springer, 2018. — 444 p. — (Graduate Texts in Physics). — ISBN: 9402415831. This book aims to cover a broad range of topics in statistical physics, including statistical mechanics (equilibrium and non-equilibrium), soft matter and fluid physics, for applications to biological phenomena at both cellular and macromolecular levels. It is intended to be a graduate level textbook,...
Springer, 2002. - 290 p. Biological systems are regulated by the thermodynamic parameters of pressure and temperature. With the help of new spectroscopic methods it is now possible to study the structure and function of such systems under extreme pressures and temperatures. This book described the resulting theory and applications of these pressure and temperature effects. The...
Wiley, 2013. - 596 p. - The book provides an overview of the highly interdisciplinary field of surface science in the context of biological and biomedical applications. The covered topics range from micro- and nanostructuring for imparting functionality in a top-down manner to the bottom-up fabrication of gradient surfaces by self-assembly, from interfaces between biomaterials...
Academic Press, 2018. — 444 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-815004-7. Plasma Medical Science describes the progress that has been made in the field over the past five years, illustrating what readers must know to be successful. As non-thermal, atmospheric pressure plasma has been applied for a wide variety of medical fields, including wound healing, blood coagulation, and cancer therapy,...
CRC Press, 2008. — 520 p. From quantum theory to statistical mechanics, the methodologies of physics are often used to explain some of life's most complex biological problems. Exploring this challenging yet fascinating area of study, Molecular and Cellular Biophysics covers both molecular and cellular structures as well as the biophysical processes that occur in these...
CRC Press, 2003. - 541 p. - Molecular biophysics is a rapidly growing field of research that plays an important role in elucidating the mysteries of life's molecules and their assemblies, as well as the relationship between their structure and function. Introduction to Molecular Biophysics fills an existing gap in the literature on this subject by providing the reader with the...
Springer, 2018. — 683 p. This unique book offers a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the five fundamental elements of life and society: energy, information, feedback, adaptation, and self-organization. It is divided into two parts. Part I is concerned with energy (definition, history, energy types, energy sources, environmental impact); thermodynamics (laws, entropy...
Springer, 2020. — 205 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-33852-7. In this monograph, the author -Head researcher at the Institute of Cell Biophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences- discusses the results of his own long-term studies of mitochondria as well as alternative points of view and experiments of other important researchers in the field. The monograph contains the main aspects of...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 178 p. Do the movements of animals, including humans, follow patterns that can be described quantitatively by simple laws of motion? If so, then why? These questions have attracted the attention of scientists in many disciplines, and stimulated debates ranging from ecological matters to queries such as 'how can there be free will if one...
2nd Revised edition. — Princeton University Press, 1996. — 484 p. — ISBN10: 0691026165, ISBN13: 978-0691026169. Both a landmark text and reference book, Steven Vogel's Life in Moving Fluids has also played a catalytic role in research involving the applications of fluid mechanics to biology. In this revised edition, Vogel continues to combine humor and clear explanations as he...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0691024189; ISBN13: 978-0691024189 — (Princeton Paperbacks) This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to change how you view your immediate surroundings." He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0691024189; ISBN13: 978-0691024189 — (Princeton Paperbacks) This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to change how you view your immediate surroundings." He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and...
Wiley, 2013. - 435 p. - The fun, easy way to get up to speed on biophysics concepts, principles, and practices One of the most diverse of modern scientific disciplines, biophysics applies methods and technologies from physics to the study of biological systems and phenomena, from the human nervous system to soil erosion to global warming. What are the best options for...
Wiley, 2014. - 619 p. - This full–colour undergraduate textbook, based on a two semester course, presents the fundamentals of biological physics, introducing essential modern topics that include cells, polymers, polyelectrolytes, membranes, liquid crystals, phase transitions, self–assembly, photonics, fluid mechanics, motility, chemical kinetics, enzyme kinetics, systems...
Wiley, 2009. - 282 p. - Photosensitisers in Biomedicine offers clear and comprehensive coverage of the many different photosensitiser types, including information on their many applications that now extend beyond anticancer therapy. These applications now include photoantimicrobial treatments not only in microbial disease, but also in the microbial resistance to conventional...
IOS Press, 2009. — 245 p. This timely book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of CD spectroscopy and its application to the problems of structural biology. In particular, the newer methods of synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) and linear dichroism (LD) are fully covered. Use of SRCD allows data between 190-160nm to be measured, where additional...
Cambridge University Press, 2000, Pages: 428 The growing impact of nonlinear science on biology and medicine is fundamentally changing our view of living organisms and disease processes. This book introduces the application to biomedicine of a broad range of concepts from nonlinear dynamics, such as self-organization, complexity, coherence, stochastic resonance, fractals, and...
Springer, 2017. — 425 p. — ISBN10: 9811068224, ISBN13: 978-9811068225. This book highlights recent advances in and diverse techniques for exploring the plasma membrane’s structure and function. It starts with two chapters reviewing the history of membrane research and listing recent advances regarding membrane structure, such as the semi-mosaic model for red blood cell...
Hoboken: Wiley, 2018. — 303 p. Imaging is now one of the most commonly used techniques in biological research. It is not simply a means of taking a pretty picture; rather advanced microscopy and imaging are now vital biophysical tools underpinning our studies of the most complex biological systems. We have the capability to study cells in real time, with 3D volumes, analysing...
The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005. - 415 p. Bioenergetics is a term used to describe the events of primary energy transduction in biology. The field has seen tremendous advances in recent years thanks to developments in the biophysical and computational techniques used to solve the three-dimensional structures of the membrane-bound proteins, which often act as catalysts in...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2011, Pages: 349 Depite the rapid expansion of the field of biophysics, there are very few books that comprehensively treat specific topics in this area. Recently, the field of single molecule biophysics has developed very quickly, and a few books specifically treating single molecule methods are beginning to appear. However, the promise of...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 274 p. The influence of light on the lives of living organisms is all-pervasive, affecting movement, vision, behavior, and physiological activity. This book is a biophysically grounded comparative survey of how animals detect light and perceive their surroundings. Included are discussions of photoreceptors, light emitters, and eyes. The book...
CRC Press, 2008. — 260 p. Macromolecules in the body form noncovalent associations, such as DNA-protein or protein-protein complexes, that control and regulate numerous cellular functions. Understanding how changes in the concentration and conformation of these macromolecules can trigger physiological responses is essential for researchers developing drug therapies to treat...
2nd Edition. - Wiley, 2004. - 207 p. The first edition of this book was the first on the physics of DNA to go beyond the simple (simplified) ‘linear’ approach, and it has since been found that the inclusion of nonlinear effects leads to a significantly improved interpretation of experimental data. This new edition naturally retains this approach, but has been completely...
Springer, 2018. — 278 p. — (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology). — ISBN10: 9811321574, 13 978-9811321573. This book presents state of the art biophysical approaches to issues in glycobiology that have cutting-edge applications. Despite the importance of glycosylation, the complexity, heterogeneity, and flexibility of the glycans have inhibited their study. Each...
Springer, 2016. - 407 p. This book provides an elegant and intuitive derivation of the fundamental mathematics underlying fluid flow, and then applies these in a straightforward way to pulsatile blood flow in all its complexity. One of the triumphs of the book is that Zamir succeeds in making essential concepts such as the Navier-Stokes equations completely accessible to any...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2000. — 230 p. Classic texts in the field of analysis of flow in blood vessels have been written over the years and what these say is still valid today. However, our knowledge of pathophysiological mechanisms has changed with increasing rapidity over the past 20 years, as has our ability to visualize the threedimensional geometry of blood flow...
Imperial College Press, 2008. - 582 p. Edited by Nobel Laureate, Ahmed Zewail, this pioneering book on physical biology includes contributions from four Nobel laureates and other eminent scientists. This book brings about the confluence of various concepts and tools to address significant problems of our time in physical biology and adjacent disciplines. The volume is...
Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2017. — 223 p. — ISBN: 978-981-10-3577-7. With the development of modern technology, people are exposed to increased magnetic fields. Here we specifically focus on static magnetic field (SMF), which means the magnetic field strength does not change over time. SMF is different than the dynamic or time-varying magnetic field. For example,...
CRC Press, 1996. — 403 p. Electromanipulation of Cells is the first comprehensive, balanced overview of this dynamic discipline. Edited by leading authorities in the field, the book surveys state-of-the-art research as well as recent practical applications of electric field technologies.
CRC Press, 2017. - 412 p. Over the past several decades there has been increasing research interest in thermodynamics as applied to biological systems. This concerns topics such as muscle work and internal energy such as fat and starch. Applications of the first and second laws of thermodynamics to the human body are important to dieticians and health science experts, and...
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