The application to Biology of the methodologies developed in
Physics is attracting an increasing interest from the scientific
community. It has led to the emergence of a new interdisciplinary
field, called Physical Biology, with the aim of reaching a better
understanding of the biological mechanisms at molecular and
cellular levels. Statistical Mechanics in particular plays an
important role in the development of this new field.
For this reason, the XXth session of the famous Sitges
Conference on Statistical Physics was dedicated to "Physical
Biology: from Molecular Interactions to Cellular Behavior." As is
by now tradition, a number of lectures were subsequently selected,
expanded and updated for publication as lecture notes, so as to
provide both a state-of-the-art introduction and overview to a
number of subjects of broader interest and to favor the interchange
and cross-fertilization of ideas between biologists and
physicists.
The present volume focuses on three main subtopics (biological
water, protein solutions as well as transport and replication),
presenting for each of them the on-going debates on recent results.
The role of water in biological processes, the mechanisms of
protein folding, the phases and cooperative effects in biological
solutions, the thermodynamic description of replication, transport
and neural activity, all are subjects that are revised in this
volume, based on new experiments and new theoretical
interpretations.
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