Boy and Dog by Jean Michel Basquiat (1982)
Boy and Dog by Jean Michel Basquiat (1982)
Here are some articles on biophysics (with an extremely biased selection criteria - namely, do I find them interesting or remotely relevant!) from the popular press to the scientific journals.
 Creating microrobots: Neutrophils, white blood cells that play a key role in the body's immune system, can be remotely activated and navigated by light for targeted delivery of nanomedicine. (Courtesy: iStock/Dr_Microbe) |
Molecular Carnival Ride - June, 2010
A Paper Submarine - May, 2010
Piston Drives a Proton Pump - May, 2010
Pressure Testing Tiny
Cell Samples - May, 2010
New INL Invention Could
Aid Mars Probes' Search for Life - May, 2010
'Nature's Batteries' may have Helped Power Early Lifeforms - May, 2010
Antibacterial Silver Nanoparticles are a Blast - May, 2010
Organic Solids in Soil may Speed up Bacterial Breathing - May, 2010
Cellular Aggregates under
Pressure - May, 2010
X-Rays Reveal Chemical Link Between Birds and Dinosaurs - May, 2010
Copying DNA Despite Defects - May, 2010
Nanotechnology: Bacterial Power - May, 2010
A Physicist Discusses How to Visualize a Molecule Changing Shape - May, 2010
Biomaterials: Intelligent Glue - May, 2010
Cell biology: Viral Vote - May, 2010
Neuroscience: Bright Eyed - May, 2010
Biofuel Boost - May, 2010
DNA Robots Move With
Purpose - May, 2010
Tissue Engineers Create a New Way to Assemble Artificial Tissues
- May, 2010
Penn Bioengineers say Cellular Workouts Strengthen Endothelial Cells' Grasp
- May, 2010
Biophysics: Transporter in the Spotlight - May, 2010
A Theoretician Ponders What Physics has to Offer Ecology - May, 2010
Nanoelectronics: Protein Transistor - May, 2010
Neuroimaging: Stem Cells on Screen - May, 2010
Blurry Vision Belongs to
History - May, 2010
Bacteria Band Together to Beat the System - May, 2010
UCLA Researchers Show how World's Smallest 'Coffee Ring' may Help Biosensors Detect Disease
- May, 2010
Protein Strangles Membrane Necks by Polymerizing into a Spiral Collar - May, 2010
See Through Tissue - May, 2010
Organic Light - May, 2010
Microbiology: Bacterial Break Up - May, 2010
Replicating and Trapping DNA - May, 2010
Eye Cells as Light Pipes - April, 2010
Fruit Fly Aerial Maneuver Explained - April, 2010
Model Gives Insight into HIV Vaccines - April, 2010
Bioengineering: Cell Culture on a Chip - April, 2010
Animal Behaviour: Magnetic-field Perception - April, 2010
Electronics on the Brain - April, 2010
Molecular Basis of Infrared Detection by Snakes - April, 2010
Single-molecule Analysis: A Ribosome in Action - April, 2010
Diffraction Around the Head Makes Hearers Mislocate Sound Sources - March, 2010
Swimming Microbes Change Fluid Viscosity - March, 2010
New Source of an Isotope in Medicine Is Found - March, 2010
Snake Infrared Detection Unravelled - March, 2010
Hadron Therapy Trainees Come Together at CERN-hosted Workshop - March, 2010
Bringing Dark Life to Light - March, 2010
Biomaterials: Squishy Particles - March, 2010
Nerve Cell Talk - March, 2010
Bioengineering: What to Make with DNA Origami - March, 2010
Light DNA Machine - March, 2010
Cosmic Rays, Climate and the Origin of Life - March, 2010
Neuroscience: Use it or Lose it - March, 2010
A Neuroscientist Explores the Network of Cells in the Retina
- March, 2010
Secret Code - March, 2010
The Cytoskeleton: I-beams of the Cell - February, 2010
Multiwave Imaging and Super Resolution - February, 2010
Focus on Bioinstrumentation and Biotechnologies - February, 2010
Hadron-therapy Training
Takes off with PARTNER - February, 2010
Molecular Imaging: Tumour Glows Out - February, 2010
Colour-blind - February, 2010
Sediment Reactions Defy Dogma - February, 2010
Breaking the Billion-hertz Barrier - February, 2010
Why Horses Wear White - February, 2010
Nanowires Transport Biomolecular Cargo - February, 2010
Bubbles Break Spherical
Mold - February, 2010
New Method for
Measuring Fluid Flow in Algae Could Herald Revolution for Fluid Mechanics
- February, 2010
Exoplanet Hunting Brought Down to Earth - February, 2010
Imaging: Virus Vision - February, 2010
Exploring the Characteristics
of Viscoelastic Fluids - February, 2010
Organic Layers Pave Way for
Next Generation of Biosensors and Solar Cells - February, 2010
Leaves Whisper their
Properties Through Ultrasound and
Why Leaves Aren't Trees
- February, 2010
Sticky When Wet - February, 2010
Neural Interactions
Point to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - February, 2010
Biomaterials: Dew Catchers and
Spider Web
Inspires Fibres for Industry - February, 2010
A bioengineer discusses how mechanical forces in tissues may promote malignancy
- February, 2010
Organic Transistor Mimics Brain Synapse - January, 2010
Focus on Photonics and Biomedical Optics - January, 2010
Biomaterials: Super Snail Shells - January, 2010
Planes, Trains, and Slime Molds - January, 2010
Material Science: Speedy Silk Imprinting - January, 2010
Altered Microbe Makes Biofuel - January, 2010
Biomechanics: Barefoot Running Strikes Back - January, 2010
Biophysics: Joint Effort Bends Membrane - January, 2010
Towards Building a Chromosome Segregation Machine - January, 2010
Cell Mechanics and the Cytoskeleton - January, 2010
Energy of Attacking Virus Revealed - January, 2010
Plasmas are Cool for Dental Disinfection - January, 2010
Quantum Computer Takes on Quantum Chemistry - January, 2010
Cell Biology: How Cilia Beat - January, 2010
Biophysicists Manipulate
'Zipper,' Reveal Protein Folding Dynamics - January, 2010
Five hard truths for synthetic biology - January, 2010
Synthetic Biology: Synchronized Bacterial Clocks - January, 2010
Sequencing with Carbon - January, 2010
A Surface Attraction
- January, 2010
Physicists put Forward
New Vaccination Strategy - January, 2010
A Cell Biologist Connects her Research to Bacterial Brain Invasion - January, 2010
How People Work...
and the Mystery of your Fingerprints - January, 2010
Applied Physics: Bubbly but Quiet - December, 2009
Storing Carbon Dioxide in Water Cages - December, 2009
Dual-aspect Particles - December, 2009
CERN Colour X-ray
Technology Set to Save Lives - December, 2009
Attacking Tumours
with Tiny Magnetic Discs - December, 2009
The Neutrino and the Whale - December, 2009
Getting the Small Picture
- November, 2009
Physical Forces at
Work in Biocomposites - November, 2009
Snail Shell
Spiral Switched - November, 2009
Skin Cells Ruffle
to Heal Open Wounds and
Ripples on a Cell - November, 2009
Structural Biology: Highly Charged Meetings - November, 2009
Computational Biology: Biological Logic - November, 2009
Review Article: Inspiration and Application in the Evolution of Biomaterials
- November, 2009
Review Article: Biomaterial Systems for Mechanosensing and Actuation - November, 2009
Review Article: Drivers of Biodiagnostic Development - November, 2009
Nanobiotechnology: Magnetic Tumour Cells - November, 2009
Guiding Light - November, 2009
Nanoscience: Release the Goods - November, 2009
Biophysics: DNA Stop and Go - November, 2009
Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again - November, 2009
Tiny Particles Have Big Potential [PDF] - November, 2009
Electrons reveal DNA without destroying it - October, 2009
Biophysics: All Seeing Eye - October, 2009
Neuroscience: Brain Signal Source - October, 2009
Nanotoxicology: Lung Penetration - October, 2009
How Cockroaches Steer - October, 2009
Bionanosensing: Picky Chips - October, 2009
A Neuroscientist Explores the Energy Efficiency of the Brain - October, 2009
Structural Biology Bags Chemistry Prize (I must say I'm not sure when X-ray
crystallography went from being physics to chemistry) - October, 2009
Computational Biology: Protein Comets - September, 2009
Butterfly Antennae like GPS,
Butterflies' Migrational Timekeeper Found - September, 2009
Solid-state NMR in Biological and Materials Physics - September, 2009
Neurobiology: Shocktopus - September, 2009
Biology: Turning Tail - September, 2009
Accelerator
Applications: Heart Valves get Silver Linings - September, 2009
Structural biology: A Channel with a Twist - September, 2009
Bioelectronics: It's Electrifying - August, 2009
Biophysics: Protein Friction - August, 2009
Biology: A Colourful Past - August, 2009
Structural biology: Aerial View of the HIV Genome - August, 2009
DNA Scaffolds Could Make Nano-circuits - August, 2009
Bug Power Makes Salt Water Sweet - August, 2009
Robot with Bones Moves Like You Do - August, 2009
Friction Keeps Molecular Motors on Track - August, 2009
DNA Twists and Bbends on Demand - August, 2009
Beetle has Polarizing Twist in its Shell - July, 2009
Tiny Droplets Carry Proteins, Viruses into the Paths of Bright X-ray Imagers
- July, 2009
How Physics can Inspire Biology - July, 2009
Population Genetics and Range Expansions - July, 2009
Immunology: Lights, Camera, Infection - July, 2009
Chill Bill - July, 2009
Nanochemistry: Protein Fondue - July, 2009
Microfluidics: The Sounds of Science - July, 2009
Biophysics: Skink or Swim? - July, 2009
Cell Biology: Spindle Sandwich - July, 2009
Bioenergetics: Winter Wrecked - July, 2009
Bioengineering: Cellular Control in Two Clicks - July, 2009
Physicists Spy on Skink Swimming Through Sand - July, 2009
Squirting Water without a Gun - July, 2009
Cell Biology: Ahead of the Curve - July, 2009
Nanotechnology: Penned in Protein - July, 2009
Medical Isotope Shortage Reaches Crisis Level - July, 2009
Nanotubes sorted using DNA - July, 2009
A Bioengineer gets Schooled by Escherichia Coli
- July, 2009
Structural biology: Protein Dynamics from Disorder - June, 2009
Double Helix
is an 'Electric Slide' for Proteins - June, 2009
Biomechanics: Serpentine Steps - June, 2009
Cell Biology: A Grey's Anatomy - June, 2009
Evolution of Gene Regulation - June, 2009
Plasticity and Toughness in Bone - June, 2009
Geomicrobiology: Low Life - June, 2009
Nanomedicine: Dude, Where's my Dot? - May, 2009
Photoacoustics for Molecular Imaging and Therapy - May, 2009
MRI
Guides Radiotherapy Beam - May, 2009
Revealing the Long-awaited Atomic Structure of a Well-known Enzyme
- May, 2009
Biophysical Dissection of Membrane Proteins - May, 2009
Nanomaterials: Inked in - May, 2009
Seeing Beyond Skin Deep - May, 2009
Living Physics - May, 2009
Now Hear This, or Not - May, 2009
A Virus Laid Bare - May, 2009
The Helix that Delivers - May, 2009
Brain Imaging Skewed - May, 2009
Voyage of the Microrobots - May, 2009
This Title is False - April, 2009
A Nonbiological System Offers Insight into Biological
Synchronization - April, 2009
A Traveling-wave Approach to High-field MRI - April, 2009
Circadian Rhythms: Magnetic Clocks - April, 2009
Cell Biology: Night Vision - April, 2009
DNA Made for Walking
- April, 2009
Diapers, DNA and very few knots - March, 2009
Seeing Inside Living Bodies with Nanoparticles
- March, 2009
DNA-based Assembly Line For Precision Nano-cluster
Construction - March, 2009
Distinguishing Single Cells With Nothing But Light - March, 2009
Yeast-powered Fuel Cell Feeds on Human Blood
- March, 2009
New Technique Boosts NMR Sensitivity 1000-fold
- March, 2009
Steel Strong, Air Light - March, 2009
Electric Cows - March, 2009
Molecular diagnostics: Like a Record, Baby - March, 2009
Nailing the Molecule - March, 2009
Secret of Synapse Specificity - March, 2009
Up, Down, Flying Around - March, 2009
Diamond targets biological threats - January, 2009
Genetic 'Clock' Made in Lab - January, 2009
Synthetic Molecular
Motors: Putting One Foot in Front of the Other - November, 2008
Taking Control of the Flagellar Motor - July, 2008
Scale relativity theory and
integrative systems biology: 2. Macroscopic quantum-type mechanics - May, 2008
Shedding Light on Life - May, 2008
Molecular motors: A step dissected
- November, 2007
Scientists get first look at nanotubes inside living animals
- September, 2007
Three for Medical Physics - May, 2007
Could humans recognize odor by phonon assisted tunneling? - January, 2007
Atomic description
of an enzyme reaction dominated by proton tunneling - April, 2006
Getting a Handle on Proteins - August, 2005
An interdisciplinary
approach to certain fundamental issues in the fields of physics and biology: towards a
unified theory - April, 2005
Magnetic Sensors Tackle Viruses - October, 2004
Nanodevices Target Viruses - October, 2004
Nanoparticles Target Tumours - September, 2004
3D
Neutron Imaging for Medicine - July, 2004
"ViriChip" Shows up Viruses - January, 2004
Electron tunneling through
proteins - August, 2003
Biomolecule behaves like a wave,
Wave nature of biomolecules and fluorofullerene - September, 2003
The Rise and Rise of Medical Imaging - August, 2003
How Subatomic Particles can be Therapeutic - August, 2003
The Cavendish Laboratory and Structural Biology - May, 2003
Cold Plasmas Destroy Bacteria - April, 2003
Cold Plasmas Destroy Bacteria - April, 2003
Physics and DNA - March, 2003
The Impact of Physics on Biology and Medicine - September, 1999
Antiproton Portable Traps and Medical Applications
[PDF]
[Journal]
- June, 1997
A physicist in biomedical investigation - October, 1979
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