Biomolecular systems under pressure

Biomolecular Computing Systems

The field of biomolecular computation started 3.5 billion years ago on earth when the first life forms evolved. What distinguished these simple organisms from a collection of inanimate molecules was the ability to process information, and it is this ability of chemistry-based computation that powers life in its various forms even today. Our attempts at exploiting this rich molecular tool set fo...

Biomolecular Feedback Systems

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Women in Turkey under Pressure of Inconsistent and Contradictory Legal Systems: Secular versus Islamic

As Turkey is officially a secular state and it adopts Swiss Civil Code, thestate implements secular legal system. However, as people in Turkey are predominantlyMuslim and theyare born and raised in a traditionally Muslim environment,people generally and especially women live under the influence of these two sometimescontradictory and inconsistent legal systems and customs. As a result, thereare...

Electrostatic Interactions in Biomolecular Systems

Electrostatic interactions are of fundamental importance in determining the structure, dynamics, and function of biomolecules. In particular, they play a key role in protein folding and stability, pH-induced conformational changes, recognition of substrates by receptors, enzymatic catalysis, and in the formation of polysaccharide-based gels. However, due to their magnitude and long-range nature...

Polymer-theory Insights into Biomolecular Systems