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Biophysics

Biophysics is a branch of science that uses the principles of physics for the purpose of unraveling some of the challenging problems regarding the mechanics of biological systems. It is considered to be an interdisciplinary field, and, as such, cuts across most of the physical sciences employing ideas in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, etc. and combines them with methods of computer modeling and mathematical analysis. Biophysics does not have any clear cut parameters to define what constitutes its research scope. In fact, it is said that its topics of interest are as varied as the biological organisms themselves that it studies. Within the framework of biophysics, scientists investigate questions like how such enormously long biomacromolecules like DNA manage to replicate themselves with such precision during cell division. Also, biophysicists can consider problems such as the dynamics of neural networks, or the ability of polymers to transform themselves into three-dimensional structures with pre-determined functions.

Whatever the scope of research, though, biophysics is a science at the molecular level and works to understand structures of individual molecules as well as interactions between molecules as complex mechanisms.

Web Resources On Biophysics

Wikipedia: Biophysics
What is Biophysics?

Book Resources On Biophysics

Methods in Modern Biophysics by Bengt Nölting
Biophysics by Roland Glaser

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