TY - JOUR

T1 - Methods in molecular biophysics: structure, dynamics, function for biology and medicine, 2nd edition

T2 - Book review

AU - McClintock, Peter Vaughan Elsmere

N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Contemporary Physics on 22 May 2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00107514.2018.1464514

PY - 2018/9/1

Y1 - 2018/9/1

N2 - Biological problems have been considered in the context of physics since at least the seventeenth century when e.g. Newton commented on information transmission along nerves. But it was the introduction of the double helix model of DNA, in the middle of the twentieth century, that demonstrating unequivocally that the processes of life are governed by basic physical principles. Since then, an immense number of specialised methods has been developed, applying physics to understand the structures and (to a lesser extent) functions of biomolecules. Zaccai et al. describe a wide variety of these methods in their comprehensive textbook.

AB - Biological problems have been considered in the context of physics since at least the seventeenth century when e.g. Newton commented on information transmission along nerves. But it was the introduction of the double helix model of DNA, in the middle of the twentieth century, that demonstrating unequivocally that the processes of life are governed by basic physical principles. Since then, an immense number of specialised methods has been developed, applying physics to understand the structures and (to a lesser extent) functions of biomolecules. Zaccai et al. describe a wide variety of these methods in their comprehensive textbook.

U2 - 10.1080/00107514.2018.1464514

DO - 10.1080/00107514.2018.1464514

M3 - Book/Film/Article review

VL - 59

SP - 317

EP - 318

JO - Contemporary Physics

JF - Contemporary Physics

SN - 0010-7514

IS - 3

ER -