Chefs and scientists exploring biophysical processes have given rise to molecular gastronomy. In this Commentary, we describe how a scientific understanding of recipes and techniques facilitates the development of new textures and expands the flavor palette. The new dishes that result engage our senses in unexpected ways. PAPERCLIP.

Profile Author Dianne Dietrich Author’s Institution Cornell University Contact [email protected] Researcher(s) Interviewed Withheld Researcher’s Institution Cornell University Date of Creation 2012-03-30 Date of Last Update n/a Version of the Tool 1.0 / modified Version of the Content 1.0 Discipline/Sub-Discipline Biophysics Sources of Information Initial interview conducted on March 9, 2012. S...

Radiofrequency (RF) ablation is a treatment modality that kills unwanted tissue by heat. Starting with cardiac arrhythmia treatment in the 1980s, RF ablation has found clinical application in a number of diseases, and is now the treatment of choice for certain types of cardiac arrhythmia and certain cancers. During RF ablation, an electrode is inserted into or steered intravascularly to the tar...

This paper explores the work of Nicolas Rashevsky, a Russian émigré theoretical physicist who developed a program in ‘‘mathematical biophysics’’ at the University of Chicago during the 1930s. Stressing the complexity of many biological phenomena, Rashevsky argued that the methods of theoretical physics – namely mathematics – were needed to ‘‘simplify’’ complex biological processes such as cell ...

With the recent successful completion of the Human Genome Project and related attempts to determine whole genomes it has become obvious that the obtained wealth of data needs to be matched by information on the structure and function of the huge number of proteins encoded in the various genomes (“proteomics”). As proteins are only functional if they assume specific shapes, it is important to ex...

Halakhor S1, Qujeq D2, Shikhpour R3 1. Instructor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran 2. Associate professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran 3. GP, Babol, Iran Abstract Background: Previous reports show that phosphorylation anddepho...

Like all authors, I hope that this book will find wide readership. At the same time, I believe that good books are intensely personal objects. As readers, we have our favorite books, and this is an emotional statement, laden with context.1 Similarly, writers bring not just their knowledge and their technical skill to the creation of a book, but also their personalities. In writing something whi...

Title of dissertation: POLYMER CONCEPTS IN BIOPHYSICS Gregory Morrison, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Dissertation directed by: Devarajan Thirumalai Department of Chemistry and Biochemsitry The recent advent of experimental techniques that study biological systems on the level of a single molecule have lead to a number of exciting new results. These experiments have a variety of applications in un...

This instructional book is based on a course in biophysics taught by Rodney Cotterill at the Danish Technical Institute. Cotterrill begins by providing perspective to the burgeoning field of biophysics. The reader is then taken through the developments in physics that made it possible for physicists to contribute to biology. The author then proceeds to concepts of increasing complexity, from at...

Knots appear in a wide variety of biophysical systems, ranging from biopolymers, such as DNA and proteins, to macroscopic objects, such as umbilical cords and catheters. Although significant advancements have been made in the mathematical theory of knots and some progress has been made in the statistical mechanics of knots in idealized chains, the mechanisms and dynamics of knotting in biophysi...