Biophysics

Have you ever wondered what makes the bulb in your room glow?

A cutting-edge science book in the style of 'Fermat's Last Theorem' and 'Chaos' from an exciting and accessible voice in popular science writing.

What are conductors and insulators?

Have you ever wondered what makes the bulb in your room glow?

What are conductors and insulators?

With a foreword from Martina Cole, the Queen of CrimeMost authors write what they know.

Time, velocity, speed and all kinds of energy will be discussed in this educational book for kids.

The basic principle of electron crystallography is to calculate a 3D density map by combining the amplitudes obtained from electron diffraction patterns with the experimental phases calculated from images of two-dimensional crystals of membrane or soluble proteins.

This volume provides an overview of advanced fluorescence microscopy, covering a broad range of methods.

In Quantum Dots: Applications in Biology, Second Edition, expert researchers in the field detail consolidated approaches as well as new trends in the field.

Photoswitching Proteins: Methods and Protocols, focuses on proven applications of photoswitching proteins in cell and neurobiology.

This volume provides an overview of advanced fluorescence microscopy, covering a broad range of methods.

Reflecting the expanding field's need for reliable protocols, Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy: Methods and Protocols offers techniques from a worldwide team of experts on this versatile and vital subject.

Now a routine tool in biomedical and life science research, live cell imaging has made major progress enabling this core biochemical, cell, and molecular biology technique to become even more powerful, versatile, and affordable.

This volume includes a series ofprotocols focused on mitotic spindle assembly and function.

Spectroscopic Tools and Techniques for Analysis of Dental Materials: Current Trends introduces the dental materials and spectroscopic techniques applied for the analysis of such materials, including ceramic, metallic, polymeric and composites.

Nanophotonics has emerged rapidly into technological mainstream with the advent and maturity of nanotechnology available in photonics and enabled many new exciting applications in the area of biomedical science and engineering that were unimagined even a few years ago with conventional photonic engineering techniques.

With its ability to explore the surface of the sample by means of a local scanning probe and its use of dedicated software allows to be visualize results, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has revolutionized the study of the smallest aspects of life.

This book details the latest advancements in spectroscopic, analytical and imaging techniques, emphasizing their crucial roles in both research and biomedical diagnostics.

Forensic anthropology deals with human remains usually in the skeletonized form.

Membrane Shape and Biological Function is an important guide for anyone interested in the dynamic world of biological membranes.

Confocal Microscopy: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition takes the researcher from the bench top through the imaging process, to the page.

This book details the latest advancements in spectroscopic, analytical and imaging techniques, emphasizing their crucial roles in both research and biomedical diagnostics.

Biophysical Chemistry explores the concepts of physical chemistry and molecular structure that underlie biochemical processes.

Membrane Shape and Biological Function is an important guide for anyone interested in the dynamic world of biological membranes.

In Quantum Dots: Applications in Biology, Second Edition, expert researchers in the field detail consolidated approaches as well as new trends in the field.

This book highlights a comprehensive introduction to high-throughput imaging, with the focus on the principles and methods.

For more than a century, microscopy has been a centerpiece of extraordinary discoveries in biology.

This book covers investigations on the diving apparatus operational features, including research investigations, basics of measuring methods, their technical realization, elaboration, and discussion of the results.

Metabolomics is a fast growing field in systems biology and offers a powerful and promising approach for a large range of applications.

Biophysical Chemistry explores the concepts of physical chemistry and molecular structure that underlie biochemical processes.

This book looks into the world of medicine through a unique lens - the principles of physics.

Laser Scanning Microscopy and Quantitative Image Analysis of Neuronal Tissue brings together contributions from research institutions around the world covering pioneering applications in laser scanning microscopy and quantitative image analysis and providing information about the power and limitations of this quickly developing field.

In this revised and expanded second edition, Electron Microscopy: Methods and Protocols presents the newest technology in electron microscopy, while maintaining the practicality and accessibility of the acclaimed first edition.

Comprising two volumes, RNA: Computational Methods for Structure, Kinetics, and Rational Design is a comprehensive treatment of computational methods concerning the secondary structure, folding kinetics and rational design of RNA.

Forensic anthropology deals with human remains usually in the skeletonized form.

In the past several years significant attention has been given to the analysis of the properties and functions of lateral microdomains (rafts) in biological membranes.

Super-Resolution Microscopy Techniques in the Neurosciences serves as a comprehensive description of current super-resolution techniques, including the physical principles that allowed for their development, some of the most recent neurobiological applications and selected information for the practical use of these technologies.

Laser Scanning Microscopy and Quantitative Image Analysis of Neuronal Tissue brings together contributions from research institutions around the world covering pioneering applications in laser scanning microscopy and quantitative image analysis and providing information about the power and limitations of this quickly developing field.

Metabolomics is a fast growing field in systems biology and offers a powerful and promising approach for a large range of applications.

Nanophotonics has emerged rapidly into technological mainstream with the advent and maturity of nanotechnology available in photonics and enabled many new exciting applications in the area of biomedical science and engineering that were unimagined even a few years ago with conventional photonic engineering techniques.