{"id":462,"date":"2020-07-22T12:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/?page_id=462"},"modified":"2025-02-21T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:47:24","slug":"biophysics-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/programs\/undergraduate-programs\/biophysics-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomedical Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Admission to this program is paused for Fall 2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Includes: <\/strong>Mechanics, Electromagnetics, Genetics, Quantum Physics, Laser Physics, Cell Biology, Professional School Preparation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biomedical Physics (Biophysics) is an exciting interdisciplinary frontier of science in which the principles and techniques of physics are used to study living things and how they work. For instance, biophysicists have applied laser physics to map cells in three dimensions and reveal bacteria in drinking water, and have developed or improved techniques for analyzing organisms such as EM (Electron Microscopy), CT (Computer-aided Tomography), MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), and X-ray crystallography. Studies of biological systems can also find applications to problems in physics. For example, the DNA of salmon has been found to improve the performance of light emitting diodes, and areas of nanotechnology are founded upon the unique mechanical and electrical properties of DNA. Biophysicists study organisms at all levels of biological organization from the macroscopic (e.g. movement, muscle contractions, breathing) to the microscopic (e.g. cell division, molecular motors, energy generation and conversion, cellular reactions to physical stimuli).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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