Biophysics

Molecular motors convert chemical energy (typically from ATP hydrolysis) to directed motion and mechanical work.

Nucleic acids are the fundamental building blocks of DNA and RNA and are found in virtually every living cell.

Introduction to Proteins provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art introduction to the structure, function, and motion of proteins for students, faculty, and researchers at all levels.

Peptide and Protein Drug Delivery Using Polysaccharides offers an interdisciplinary discussion of polysaccharides applied in peptide and protein drug delivery.

Introduction to Modern Biochemistry, Second Edition focuses on the methodologies, processes, reactions, and technologies involved in biochemistry.

This book reviews the respiratory function of vertebrate red cells.

This book describes a new strategy for rehabilitation from injury and/or disease using Crucial Event Therapy.

This volume of The Enzymes features high-caliber thematic articles on the topic of molecular machines involved in protein transport across cellular membranes.

The volumes in this authoritative series present a multidisciplinary approach to modeling and simulation of flows in the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, especially multiscale modeling and coupled simulations.

The scientific contribution of Mike Bradbury to the study of the blood-brain barrier is considerable and wide-ranging, starting with his M.

The concept of "e;vital amines"e; as essential nutrients was introduced over a century ago by Dr Casimir Funk.

Viral Replication Enzymes and their Inhibitors, Part B, Volume 50 in The Enzymes series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics surrounding enzymes.

This volume describes in detail the technique of molecular orbital calculations for biochemistry.

'The Essential Tension' explores how agents that naturally compete come to act together as a group.

This book is based on a series of lectures for a course on ionic channels held in Santiago, Chile, on November 17-20, 1984.

This book describes hydration structures of proteins by combining experimental results with theoretical considerations.

This book focuses on the assembly, organization and resultant collective dynamics of soft matter systems maintained away from equilibrium by an energy flux.

The objective of this book remains the same as that stated in the first edition: to present a comprehensive perspective of biomechanics from the stand point of bioengineering, physiology, and medical science, and to develop mechanics through a sequence of problems and examples.

This book describes the current state of knowledge in the field of multi-scale ECM mechanics and mechanobiology with a focus on experimental and modelling studies in biomechanical characterization, advanced optical microscopy and imaging, as well as computational modeling.

This book highlights the various topics in which luminescence and electrochemistry are intimately coupled.

Biochemistry of Characterised Neurons provides a report on the progress made in the analysis of the biology of specific neurons in the central nervous system.

Advances in Microbial Physiology, Volume 77, the latest release in this ongoing series, continues the long tradition of topical, important, cutting-edge reviews in microbiology.

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This book presents the microscopic and macroscopic bark structure of more than 180 different tree and shrub species from Europe, Asia and North America.

What are the relations between the shape of a system of cities and that of fish school?

Biophysics, relatively a younger discipline, comprises a number of specific biological studies, which neither share a unique identifying factor, nor subject themselves to clear and concise definitions.

Insecticides: Action and Metabolism provides a comprehensive review of the action of insecticides and a survey of their metabolism.

Handbook of Molecular Gastronomy: Scientific Foundations and Culinary Applications presents a unique overview of molecular gastronomy, the scientific discipline dedicated to the study of phenomena that occur during the preparation and consumption of dishes.

This lecture volume aims to give students and researchers in this rapidly expanding field of biophotonics an interdisciplinary perspective.

The present book gives a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physics of life and the particular role played by lipids (fats) and the lipid-bilayer component of cell membranes.

Este libro es el segundo volumen de un texto sobre introducción a la física para alumnos que estudien seriamente ciencias físicas, ciencias de la vida e ingeniería.

This book highlights the advancements in different fields of clinical electrophysiology and gives the reader a good background of the established practices.

Synthetic Peptides discusses racemization, protecting group techniques, peptide bond-forming methodology, amino acids, and dipeptide syntheses.

Numerous essential biological functions involve metalloproteins; therefore, understanding metalloproteins and how to manipulate them is significant in the biological and medical fields.

The field of brain imaging is developing at a rapid pace and has greatly advanced the areas of cognitive and clinical neuroscience.

This textbook, aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students, introduces the basic knowledge required for nanomedicine and nanotechnology, and emphasizes how the combined use of chemistry and light with nanoparticles can serve as treatments and therapies for cancer.

Seeking Symmetry: Finding patterns in human health offers a guide through the overwhelming mass of data generated by contemporary science.

Quantitative Neurophysiology is supplementary text for a junior or senior level course in neuroengineering.

New textbooks at all levels of chemistry appear with great regularity.

This is the first book in the series to focus on dynamic hyperpolarized nuclear magnetic resonance, a burgeoning topic in biophysics.

Biophysics, being an interdisciplinary topic, is of great importance in modern biology.

Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Particles discusses fundamental magnetic nanoparticle physics and chemistry and explores important biomedical applications and future challenges.

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 97, the latest release in this serial that highlights new advances in the field, including comprehensive chapters written by an international board of authors.

Stem Cell Labeling for Delivery and Tracking Using Noninvasive Imaging provides a comprehensive overview of cell therapy imaging, ranging from the basic biology of cell therapeutic choices to the preclinical and clinical applications of cell therapy.

This book presents cutting-edge research and developments in the field of biomedical engineering, with a special emphasis on results achieved in Vietnam and neighboring low- and middle-income countries.

As the current millennium steams towards a close, one cannot help but look with amazement at the incredible amount of progress that has been achieved in medicine in just the last few decades.