Many areas of today's scientific inquiry, as well as many technological developments, depend on the collaboration of physicists, chemists, mathematicians, engineers, biologists, and physicians. This volume demonstrates the value of pooling together the resources of these disciplines and provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical knowledge, encouraging interaction between traditional "soft" and "hard" sciences.
One Aspect of the Physical Sciences in Relation to Biology.- Section I Oncogenes and Cancer.- Retroviruses and Evolution.- The Beginning of the Molecular Description of a Cancer.- Section II Lower-to-Higher DNA Structure.- Neutron Scatter and Diffraction Techniques Applied to Nucleosome and Chromatin Structure.- Nuclear Structure: From the Pores to the High-Order Gene Structure.- Section III Brain and Vision.- Blobs and Color Vision.- Neuron Learning to Brain Organization.- A Physicist’s View of Vision.- Section IV Technological Developments.- Scanning in Medicine and Other Fields.- Genetic Engineering: A New Biotechnology.- Renewable Fuels and Materials: Oil From Plants.- NMR Imaging in Biomedicine.- Section V Methodological Developments.- Life and Physics: New Perspectives.- Cell Differentiation and Malignancy.- New Strategies in Cancer Chemotherapy.- Summary and Prospects.- Author Index.