Editorial: Molecular Organization of Membranes: Where Biology Meets Biophysics

Editorial: Molecular Organization of Membranes: Where Biology Meets Biophysics

EMBO Molecular Medicine—Where molecular biology meets clinical research

In 1964, when the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) was founded, molecular biology was a small, emerging field within the biological sciences. The founders of EMBO, among them name just a few, belonged to the avant-garde of molecular biology. They came from different backgrounds—physics, chemistry, medicine and biology, but they shared interest in two basic questions: (i) What are ...

Where Biology meets computing

AlAn Turing died in 1954 in his laboratory after eating a cyanide-laced apple. Though Turing’s mother believed her son’s death to be a result of the kind of accidents that befalls absent-minded mathematicians engaged in laboratory experiments, it is generally assumed to be a suicide. During his last years, Turing had become an experimentalist, interested in bio-chemical systems. He had proposed...

Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology

Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology covers the ground between the physical and biological sciences. It indicates to the physicist the great variety of unsolved problems awaiting attention in the biological sciences. The biologist and biochemist will find that this journal presents new and stimulating ideas on structural and functional problems of the living organism. This journal will be...

Quantitative biology: where modern biology meets physical sciences

Quantitative methods and approaches have been playing an increasingly important role in cell biology in recent years. They involve making accurate measurements to test a predefined hypothesis in order to compare experimental data with predictions generated by theoretical models, an approach that has benefited physicists for decades. Building quantitative models in experimental biology not only ...