Macromolecular Science Turns 100

An old friend turns 100.

Computer Simulations for Macromolecular Science

Macromolecules, or in the most simple version chain molecules of a given length posed and still pose a significant challenge to theoretical physics and chemistry. The computational materials science emerging from this is a growing and exciting field of science. Despite remarkable progress over many years, which is well documented in many research papers and several reviews, only (few) rather si...

Biophysical science in Italy: SIBPA turns 40.

This Special Issue of Biophysical Chemistry includes a selection of the papers presented at the XXI Congress of the Italian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics (i.e., SIBPA, Società Italiana di Biofisica Pura ed Applicata) held on September 2012 at the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. Topics cover all biophysical disciplines, from molecular to cellular, to integrative biophysics giving...

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Macromolecular Science

Today, virtually every experimental paper published in ‘‘Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics’’ includes characterization of the polymers under study by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. In addition to monitoring the various synthetic steps, which eventually lead to the new polymers or supramolecular systems described, high-resolution NMR provides a number of important parameters, ...

Foundations in cancer research. The turns of life and science.

This chapter provides a personal insight into the scientific and social atmosphere in former Czechoslovakia. It covers the period of the rise of Hasek's immunologic school and application of immunologic tolerance to Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) heterotransmission. These approaches permitted establishment of a new model of mammalian cells transformed by RSV (virogenic XC cells), where the noninfecti...