Introduction to biology and chromosomal instabilities in cancer

K.M. Kroll, A. Ferrantini and E. Domany

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2010, vol. 389, issue 20, 4374-4388

Abstract: The recent decade has witnessed a surge of physicists to biology. Some of the activities of the participating groups focus on bona fide physics questions, posed on biological systems (such as the physics of molecular motors, for example). Another kind of research in which physicists take part alongside computer scientists and applied mathematicians, deals with questions that are of direct interest to biologists; they come under the umbrella of computational and systems biology. The topic of these lectures lies at the most biological end of this spectrum, addressing problems of clinical relevance which were posed and initiated by biologists.

Keywords: Basics of molecular biology; Hallmarks of cancer; Chromosomal instabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.03.023

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