Physical biology of the cell
By: Rob Phillips, Jane Kondev, Julie Theriot.
Contributors: Kondev, Jane.; Theriot, Julie.
Publisher: Garland Science
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815341635
Subjects: Biophysics; Cytology
Table of contents: title: Why: biology by the numbers; title: What and where: construction plans for cells and organisms; title: When: stopwatches at many scales; title: Who: "bless the little beasties"; title: Life at rest; title: Mechanical and chemical equilibrium in the living cell; title: Entropy rules!; title: Two-state systems: from ion channels to cooperative binding; title: Random walks and the structure of macromolecules; title: Electrostatics for salty solutions; title: Beam theory: architecture for cells and skeletons; title: Biological membranes: life in two dimensions; title: Life in motion; title: The mathematics of water; title: A statistical view of biological dynamics; title: Life in crowded and disordered environments; title: Rate equations and dynamics in the cell; title: Dynamics of molecular motors; title: Biological electricity and the Hodgkin-Huxley model; title: The meaning of life; title: Sequences, specificity, and evolution; title: Network organization in space and time; title: Whither physical biology?.