TY - BOOK AU - Phillips,Rob AU - Kondev,Jane AU - Theriot,Julie TI - Physical biology of the cell / SN - 9780815341635 AV - QH505 .P455 2009 U1 - 571.6 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York : PB - Garland Science, KW - Biophysics. KW - Cytology. KW - Cells KW - ultrastructure. N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index.; Why: biology by the numbers -- What and where: construction plans for cells and organisms -- When: stopwatches at many scales -- Who: "bless the little beasties" -- Mechanical and chemical equilibrium in the living cell -- Entropy rules! -- Two-state systems: from ion channels to cooperative binding -- Random walks and the structure of macromolecules -- Electrostatics for salty solutions -- Beam theory: architecture for cells and skeletons -- Biological membranes: life in two dimensions -- The mathematics of water -- A statistical view of biological dynamics -- Life in crowded and disordered environments -- Rate equations and dynamics in the cell -- Dynamics of molecular motors -- Biological electricity and the Hodgkin-Huxley model -- Sequences, specificity, and evolution -- Network organization in space and time -- Whither physical biology? ER -