Some critical questions in biological physics : a guided tour around the bugbears /: a guided tour around the bugbears. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas Andrew Waigh.
• Authors: Waigh, Tom A
• Other Names: Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.
• Contents: Preface -- 1. Molecular communication--crackling phone lines -- 2. How dynein works and other motor proteins -- 3. How brains work--wiring and consciousness -- 4. Spike trains and the senses--the mouse's whiskers -- 5. Elastic turbulence--gloopy chaos -- 6. How mucus works--the 21 mysteries in man -- 7. Synthetic biology--reengineering bugs and molecules -- 8. Missing instruments--grease monkeys required -- 9. The structure of carbohydrates--the perfect chip -- 10. Evolution and antibiotics--Bugmageddon -- 11. The regulation of expression in DNA--huge uncertainties in genetics -- 12. The origin of sub-diffusion inside cells--everything's gone fractional -- 13. Microrheology--the unexplored continents -- 14. Quantum phenomena in biology--the role of chunks -- 15. The structure of membranes--uncharted factories -- 16. Drug delivery--gene therapy and other stories -- 17. A good model for polyelectrolytes--bootstrapping with a many-body problem -- 18. The activity of hearts--the pump that quivers -- 19. A perspective.
• Publisher Details: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (various pagings), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 571.4; Biophysics; Biophysics; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biophysics; Biophysics; Biophysics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780750313759; 0750313757; 9780750313766; 0750313765; 0750313749; 9780750313742
• Related ISBNs: 9780750313742
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 26, 2017).
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