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where physics admits even atoms get nervous around something that can decide to leave.
means The science that applies the methods and principles of physics to understand how living things work, from the mechanics of muscles to the electrical signals in nerves and the folding of proteins.
from A modern compound built from Greek roots: 'bios' (life) joined to 'physis' (nature), the same 'physis' that gave us 'physics' itself. The marriage is recent — a late 19th- to early 20th-century coinage that gathered real momentum once biologists and physicists started seriously borrowing each other's tools. The word wears its ambition on its sleeve: life, examined through the lens of nature's measurable laws.
- force measurement
- single molecules pulled apart with optical tweezers
- protein folding
- chains fold faster than computers can simulate
- ion channels
- proteins switch electricity to fire neurons
- cryo-EM
- frozen molecules imaged atom by atom
- quantum vision
- your eye detects single photons of light
patch clamp electrophysiology — developed by erwin neher and bert sakmann in 1976, measures ion channel currents at single-cell level