Can physics deliver another biological revolution?: Cultural, institutional, conceptual and linguistic barriers are being overcome as physicists and biologists recognize the scientific stimulus they can gain from each other
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Biologists are increasingly having to manage large amounts of data and are turning to tools from the physical sciences. Many physicists in turn are tackling significant questions in biology using both the mental and physical tools of physics. Collaboration has sometimes been hampered by language, and the problem of finding common ground. However several US universities have plans to bring physical scientists and biologists together, and some physics and biology departments are making joint appointments, while government and private funding agencies in the US are promoting the physics-biology agenda.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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Molecular motors: structural adaptations to cellular functions
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The motor domains of the proteins kinesin and myosin have similar structures although the proteins have very different properties. Such differences can be understood by analysing the fraction of time that a motor is fastened to its filament, known as the duty ratio. Understanding the constraints of duty ratios gives further insight into other motor proteins.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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