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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. This book addresses both the structure and motion of biological materials and the increasingly complex behaviour that arises out of interactions in large systems, giving rise to self organization, adaptation, selection and evolution: concepts of interest not only to biology and living systems but also within condensed matter physics. The approach adopted by the text is tutorial, but the book is fully up to date with the latest research. Written at a level appropriate to graduate researchers, preferably with a background either in condensed matter physics or theoretical or physically-oriented experimental biology.

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Author:   T. Riste ,  David Sherrington
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1996 ed.
Volume:   322
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.620kg
ISBN:  

9780792341314

ISBN 10:   0792341317
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   30 June 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

to the physics of biomaterials: The role of membranes.- What does neutron spectroscopy tell on the dynamics of amphiphilic layers?.- Physical aspects of adhesion of leukocytes.- Membrane-associated-proteins: Self-assembly, interactions, and biomolecular materials.- Collective phenomena in mitosis: A physicist’s perspective.- Mechanical forces in the biological world.- A biosensor that monitors mammalian cells with electrical fields.- Knots and applications to biology, chemistry and physics.- Statistical and linguistic features of DNA sequences.- The basics of protein folding physics.- Evolutionary mechanisms involved in the formation of tandem repetitive non-coding DNA.- Molecular evolutionary biology.- Fitness landscapes and evolution.- Statistical physics of neural networks.- The evolution of complexity in metazoans.- Extremal dynamics and punctuated equilibrium in co-evolution.

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