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Physical biology: from atoms to medicine
Author(s): Ahmed Zewail (Author)
- Publisher: Icp
- Publication Date: 6 May 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 582 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848161999
- ISBN-13: 9781848161993
Book Description
This is an avant-garde book edited by Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail with contributions from eminent scientists including four Nobel prize winners. The perspectives of these world leaders in physics, chemistry, and biology define potential new frontiers at the interface of disciplines and including physical, systems, and synthetic biology. This book brings about the confluence of concepts and tools, and that of different disciplines, to address significant problems of our time: visualization; theory and computation for complexity; macromolecular function, protein folding and misfolding; and systems integration from cells to consciousness. The scope of tools is wide-ranging, spanning imaging, crystallography, microfluidics, single-molecule spectroscopy, and synthetic probe targeting. Concepts such as dynamic self-assembly, molecular recognition, non-canonical amino acids, and others are covered in various chapters as they are cornerstones in building the trilogy description of behavior-structure, dynamics, and function.The volume is uniquely structured to provide overviews with historical perspectives on the evolution of ideas and on the future of physical biology and biological complexity, from atoms to medicine.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Even the shorter contributions, written by masters of their fields, are penetrating. — Chemistry World “Chemistry World”
