Understanding living systems

Living forwards, understanding backwards.

Understanding living clathrin-coated pits.

Most knowledge of clathrin-mediated endocytosis has been gained by biochemical fractionation and in vitro assays. Recently, the study of endocytosis has extended into the living cell. The tracking of individual clathrin-coated pits and vesicles (CCPs and CCVs) has provided new insight into understanding the dynamic nature of CCPs. The use of total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TI...

Mathematical Modeling of the Temperature-Dependent Growth of Living Systems

In this investigation a non-equilibrium thermodynamic model of the temperature dependent biological growth of a living systems has been analyzed. The results are derived on the basis of Gompertzian growth equation. In this model, we have considered the temperature dependent growth rate and development parameter. The non-equilibrium thermodynamic model is also considered for exploring the variat...

Living forward, understanding backwards, Part II.

In Part I of this article, which appeared in last month's AJOI', AOI'A President Robert K. Bing examined the founding principles of occupational therapy developed and published in 1925, and offered comments from some pioneering occupational therapists that helped determine how the principles were enacted in practice. This month in Part II Bing continues with more comments from the profession's ...

living polymeric systems: design and application (ii)

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