We review approaches aimed at deciphering the physical mechanisms responsible for viral
structure and assembly. We discuss the basic principles of condensed matter physics …

Eukaryotic cells are characterized by their content of intracellular membrane-bound
organelles, including mitochondria as well as nuclei. These two DNA-containing …

Physical Biology of the Cell is a textbook for a first course in physical biology or biophysics
for undergraduate or graduate students. It maps the huge and complex landscape of cell …

The bacterial flagellar motor is a reversible rotary nano-machine, about 45 nm in diameter,
embedded in the bacterial cell envelope. It is powered by the flux of H+ or Na+ ions across …

Probably no other field of statistical physics at the borderline of soft matter and biological
physics has caused such a flurry of papers as polymer translocation since the 1994 …

A fundamental objective in molecular biology is to understand how DNA is organized in
concert with various proteins, RNA, and biological membranes. Mitochondria maintain and …

Life history theory accounts for variations in many traits involved in the reproduction and
survival of living organisms, by determining the constraints leading to trade-offs among …

A molecular motor is made of either a single macromolecule or a macromolecular complex.
Just like their macroscopic counterparts, molecular motors “transduce” input energy into …

Sixty years after Hershey and Chase showed that nucleic acid is the major component of
phage particles that is ejected into cells, we still do not fully understand how the process …

The main functions of viral capsids are to protect, transport and deliver their genome. The
mechanical properties of capsids are supposed to be adapted to these tasks. Bacteriophage …