Aspects of physical biology: biological water, protein solutions, transport and replication

The XXth session of the famous Sitges Conference on Statistical Physics was dedicated to ‘Physical Biology: from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior’. As is by now tradition, a number of lectures were subsequently selected, expanded and updated for publication as lecture notes, so as to provide both a state-of-the-art introduction and overview to a number of subjects of broader interest and to favor the interchange and cross-fertilization of ideas betweenbiologists and physicists. The present volume focuses on three main subtopics(biological water, protein solutions as well as transport and replication), presenting for each of the them the on-going debates on recent results. The role of water in biological processes, the mechanisms of protein folding, the phases and cooperative effects in biological solutions, the thermodynamic description of replication, transport and neural activity, all are subjects that are revised in this voluime, based on new experiments and new theoretical interpretations. INDICE: Part I: Biological Water. - Part II: Protein and Biological Solutions.- Part III: Transport and Replication.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-78764-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés