BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS

Evolution, Interactions, and Biological Networks

T he study of networks has expanded rapidly over the last 10 years; networks are now widely recognized not only as outcomes of complex interactions, but as key determinants of structure, function, and dynamics in systems that span the biological, physical, and social sciences [1–4]. The " new science of networks " [5] has introduced novel paradigms of systems behavior, including small-world str...

Gold Nanoparticle-Biological Molecule Interactions

This review gives a brief summary of the field of gold nanoparticle interactions with biological molecules, particularly those with possible catalytic relevance. Gold nanoparticles are well known as catalysts in organic chemistry but much is unknown regarding their potential as catalysts of reactions involving biological molecules such as protein and nucleic acids. Biological molecules may be t...

Biological Stoichiometry: The Elements at the Heart of Biological Interactions

Beyond Element-Wise Interactions: Identifying Complex Interactions in Biological Processes

BACKGROUND Biological processes typically involve the interactions of a number of elements (genes, cells) acting on each others. Such processes are often modelled as networks whose nodes are the elements in question and edges pairwise relations between them (transcription, inhibition). But more often than not, elements actually work cooperatively or competitively to achieve a task. Or an elemen...

Analysis of Molecular Interactions Using the Thermophoresis Method and its Applications in Neuroscience and Biological Processes

Introduction: Molecular interactions play an important role in the phenomenon and biological processes. In fact, any cellular biological process ranged from genetic replication to the production of various proteins to the transmission of neurological, hormonal, membrane involves collections of molecular interactions that occur continuously. Interference in each of these processes at every stage...